a 10-day walking tour through parma, cinque terre, the apuan alps, volterra & elba island with tamarillo travel
europe
every place is the center of the world
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is “look under foot.” You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place […]
postcard from brugge
i am up early(ish). the morning light is soft and golden, the sun not yet high enough in the sky to bring the harsh white light of the times between blue hours. peeking out the window i see a hot air balloon gliding over the stepped rooves of the city. it’s not the perfect photograph. […]
postcards from Pripyat
При́пять (Pripyat) was founded in 1970 to house workers for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 but was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl disaster. It was the ninth nuclear city (“атомоград” (atomograd) in Russian, literally “atom city”) in the Soviet Union at the time. Its population had […]