Meet Hassan, a Berber desert guide in the Sahara.
“How do you know where the wells are? Do you have a map? “In here” he taps on his temple. Hassan’s English is broken but we understand each other just fine. I […]
Category Archives: Travel
Discover the world in music… PART II, The Middle East
Music, like proverbs, is the mirror of a culture. The aim of this series if to take you around the world in music, to help you discover authentic melodies, foreign cultures […]
Discover the world in music… PART I, Eastern Europe.
Music is an integral part of my routine. I wake up to it, drink coffee to it, write to it, daydream to it… You get the gist. A few months […]
Paris vs. London: who wins?
I was lucky enough to spend my birthday one Eurostar journey away – in Paris! I have had a soft spot for Paris ever since I visited with my high school […]
Happy birthday!
October 22, 4:45 am. After a difficult night’s sleep due to a car alarm going off in the middle of the night and blaring for 3 hours, it is finally time […]
Bulgaria Is Famous
Originally posted on tobulgaria:
On October 10, 2011, Bulgaria’s daily newspaper 24 Chasa published an article entitled “They Found Proof That We Thought Up Rakiya,” in which is detailed the…
The time we got lost in the mountains.
My mum and I refer to this day as August 9. Not only because it refers to the date of “the event” but also because August 9 happens to be her birthday. […]
The only noise is the howling wind.
Have you ever walked at an altitude of 4,000 meters? According to this Altitude Oxygen Chart, the effective oxygen percentage at the top of Klein Matterhorn (3,883m) where I was a week ago, the […]
There are places only our feet can conquer.
There is a place in our Bulgarian mountains called The Seven Lakes. It is a beautiful region in the Rila mountains where one can walk from the first to the last […]
The Alps VS. the blog.
Just a quick update from me. I like to keep all kinds of technology aside when I am up the mountains and I’m sure you won’t mind my temporary silence. […]
A writer's caravan 