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Continue reading →: East side to the West side
I have never thought I’d be reading books about volcanoes one day. There’s hardly anything I hate more than earthquakes and related catastrophes. But when you’re travelling to Sumatra, Indonesia – situated somewhere in the Pacific Ring of Fire, it only seems appropriate. And if I was to get into…
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Continue reading →: Peru: Preps ‘n’ Early BeginningsThe idea of going to Peru has stressed the life out of me. For two full months I roamed in circles like a lion in a cage before I finally did the irreversible and booked. Root of the problem: I wasn’t perfectly sure whether I was fit enough to tackle…
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Continue reading →: I’m wrong therefore I amThe fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That’s how we know we’re alive: we’re wrong. (Philip Roth – American…
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Continue reading →: The Lisboa ExperienceLisbon is destined to be a very lovable city. To begin with, it has an exquisite geographical position: it is the only European capital set along the Atlantic coast. Summer there lasts for about six months and the average temperature in the coldest months of winter is +/- 15°C. This…
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Continue reading →: Where is the European Union?“What is that?” asked the man when I said that I was coming from Brussels, headquarters of the European Union. The couple I’m talking to comes from the US, so that justifies the question. We met on a boat to Amalfi, the name of which they cannot really pronounce either.…
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Continue reading →: Hell of a May DayMay 1st is, no doubt, a public holiday in Belgium, too. Labour Day or Easter – who cares about the underlying significance of the event, as long as it is a day off? I was once asked by a seemingly mature person why Easter was supposed to be a sad…
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Continue reading →: Childhood: made in concreteI grew up in a concrete environment. During communist Romania, blocks of flats emerged from the ground and spread across cities like mushrooms after a fresh rain, with no architectural purpose other than squeezing people in. Glued one next to the other and separated by thin walls, we could hear…
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Continue reading →: Venezia – Of Land & WaterI don’t remember to have ever made Venice a priority on my see-the-whole-world list. The rumours that the city was in reality not as charming as its fame went and that the water stank might have subconsciously put me off. Or was it the clichéd image of lovers cobwebbing the city and proclaiming…
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Continue reading →: Bad Company in CampaniaSome journeys are just longer. To others, there’s simply no end. My thoughts exactly as our train halts for the third time in the last three hours in a station which is still not our final destination. I am steaming, sweating, perhaps also swearing on a train in Italy, somewhere…
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Continue reading →: Florence, the Machine and Almost Us
When I fell in love with Florence + the Machine, they were scheduled for a concert in Antwerp, Belgium, but it was already sold out. Surfing the World Wide Web, my eyes roll in my head like a casino slot machine when I find out that there are tickets on sale…
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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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