Category: Travels
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On Where/Who You Are
Once upon a time, in the good ol’ pre-pandemic times, I took the train to Edinburgh. My snack supplies were coming to their end, beautiful scenery was emerging, and an exciting long weekend was ahead. It was a long-awaited family weekend that not even a potentially terrible weather could stop. How terrible was the weather […]
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The Loop
Have you ever come back to place that’s very dear to your heart, after a long time, to reflect on what a crazy loop of time it has been?
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: My Inadequate Ramblings on a Truly Incredible Land
If you’ve been to Bosnia and Herzegovina you might remember what and amazing and kind country it is. Here is my quick Thank You to the welcome I’ve received there.
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On a Strange(ly Beautiful) Memory Disorder
I was brushing my teeth the other day and, suddenly, I was on a rooftop in India, sharing some heavily overpriced beers with my new travel companions. Fireworks went off, we all looked at each other rather confused, and then realised it was probably because the cricket match between India and Pakistan had just ended. […]
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São Paulo Again
“But why São Paulo? Couldn’t you get the same things in any big city?” – I was asked by a young guy dancing next to me, and, needless to say, a dance floor is not necessarily the best place to reflect on anything else than the quality of music. But somehow I did. I was […]
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On (Non)Travels Home
What’s the difference between simply going from point A to point B and travelling? I have no answer for that (maybe coz there is no answer), but going home to Lithuania from São Paulo somehow felt more like travelling than anything else. So many cool little details got stuck in my head that I have […]
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Curitiba? Curitiba!
I must tell you I was very skeptical about this place. I had to go there for work recently, and the idea of leaving São Paulo with all of its cool people did not seem too appealing. After a night on a (freezing, as always, bus), I found myself in an environment of that bus-like […]
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The Endless Coolness of São Paulo
Some time ago, I had a discussion with a friend on a topic that doesn’t really have any valid answer. We were discussing when it is…somehow appropriate to say that you’re actually living in a place instead of just travelling or staying there temporarily. What would be the factors involved: how much you’ve seen in […]
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Time to Have a Talk on Travel Talk
I remember being stuck on a bus (and then continuing being stuck on a metro) with some students from my university in Budapest several years ago, at some point just honestly asking them, “Can we pleeeeeease talk about something else than our classes? For example, I don’t know how about you, but I am personally […]
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A Quick Photo Essay of Everything
I was sitting at Oi (one of Brazil’s phone companies) shop in Rio, waiting in line to get a new SIM card, when an elderly lady started talking to me (I know, what an unusual situation…). She was clearly completely happy with our communication in a form of her monologue, and, no joke, 3 minutes […]
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