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Continue reading →: Belgium – No Safe HavenIt’s a particularly grey day in Belgium. It makes for the ideal background of a funeral. The country mourns its victims today, the ones it couldn’t save from yesterday’s terror attacks. But mourning, a sky that seems to be crying in unison with us, the one minute of silence and…
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Continue reading →: Mada in a snapshotWhen people think about Madagascar, they think about cute lemurs and huge baobabs. They imagine an exotic land where tourists feed themselves lavishly on papaya and pineapple for breakfast and treat themselves to coco rum as the sun goes down. They imagine green forests and hidden waterfalls. And they certainly…
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Continue reading →: Giving Love a Chance
My brain is an awfully selective instrument – breaking news and here here. Somewhere along the way of establishing my reading criteria it decided that books written by female authors displaying the word “Love” in the title were not of a burning interest to me. This is one of the reasons…
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Continue reading →: The Changing Face of EuropeNot long ago, merely 13 years, I took a chance: I left my (at that time) non-EU country, Romania, and decided I would be a European citizen living in Belgium. To me, that meant a wide open space of possibilities, diversity, travel and freedom. No borders. Romania was not yet…
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Continue reading →: In and out of LimaLima. 5 a.m. But first I need to pick up my luggage, which causes me a bit of a stress. Before I get off the plane, a Peruvian lady gives extensive explanations to her relatives travelling from Europe that it is rather common for the luggage to be stolen at…
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Continue reading →: Love Letter to South AfricaWho would have thought that I’d fall in love with a country? A place that is not mine by birth, a foreign land. Someone once drew the contour of the South African map for me on a wall and years later I found my way to it. Nor have I ever…
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Continue reading →: Travel solo, but take a bookFew days back I found myself walking again under –this time – the lighter weight of a familiar load: my blue backpack. Slightly absent minded yet ready to get carried away towards my destination by a habitual combination of metro, bus and plane, something occurred to me for the too…
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Continue reading →: Two planes till Peru
Keys, money, passport, credit cards, flight ticket…I use all my powers of concentration to do the final check ritual and make sure I have all the vital belongings with me, preferably before I lock the door behind. Previous experiences have shown that, thorough though I may be in some circumstances,…
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Continue reading →: Metro ride in AthensComing back from Athens, Greece where I attended a TBEX travel bloggers’ event that gave me a fresh insight into the blogging world, I found myself lost and uninspired: what to blog about the city? The doubt was legitimate. I didn’t manage to see Athens. I only went to the Acropolis Museum…
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Continue reading →: Don’t let Doel dieI was missing chaos when I found Doel. After a recent trip to Indonesia which gave me a crash course on how chaos can look like, Brussels seemed a tad too orderly and sober by contrast. No monkeys on the roof, no motorcycles that carry whole families together with their belongings,…
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I’m Silvia
Explorer of the Everyday started out as a travel journal (on paper). I was very lucky to see some very special places at one point in time, and as I was opening my eyes to them, I felt the need to record as much as I possibly could. I didn’t want to forget any of it. So I wrote down what I saw, whom I met, how travel and discovery made me feel, took pictures with a heavy camera strapped around my neck (no iPhone then) – and the journal turned into a blog.
My stories have always been just that: personal experiences in different places of the Globe that were sometimes funny or awkward or scary enough to share and yes, incite one to travel and embrace the unknown, as well. I am an influencer in that way, writing stories, not lists, to keep the flavour of where I have been and pass it on.
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