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Continue reading →: My Name is Silvia and I’m an ImmigrantI am one of the hundreds of million of people who moved from one country to another. At twenty, I willingly left Romania and reluctantly landed in Belgium. Back then, I was just travelling somewhere else, having no idea that immigration would stick with me. Now that I have been…
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Continue reading →: 5. Wicklow in Autumn
Remember Braveheart? Well, this is where the movie was partly set, and mind you, only 5% of the movie was shot in the Highlands of Scotland, so don’t be fooled. The Wicklows display truly magnificent scenery, which we thoroughly enjoyed, in spite of the unreliable mood of the weather. We…
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Continue reading →: 4. Dddd Dublin!
In Dublin things just kept being fun (I should probably mention that when I am dead beat I find everything incredibly funny). Two wasted luggage-dragging mechanisms we were in those streets, Kim and I, our minds set on finding our hostel and a bed to rest on asap. Yet finding the…
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Continue reading →: 3. The Wacko Episode
Kim and I went to Galway’s ‘Quays’ that night. When we finally made it to our room, one of those things happened for which one has got to love sleeping in hostels and sharing rooms with perfect strangers. I was taking off my contact lenses at the feeble light that…
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Continue reading →: 2. Night and Day in Galway
During that short November west-east coast journey across my beloved Emerald Island, we only spent one full day in what I call the “real” Galway. The town is small and magnificently surrounded by nature. It is very tempting to plan a trip to one of the Aran Islands or to Connemara, or to…
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Continue reading →: 1. A Piece of Connemara
Galway. Out into the fresh air. I left Kim putting on her make-up and went to search the streets for some coffee to help us both brighten up and greet the morning. And a particularly inviting one it was, with all that bluish sky stretching above our heads to a…
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Continue reading →: Deromanticizing RomeI went to Italy, scene of ancient battles, gladiators and perverted pleasures – so delightfully reproduced in movies and TV series (if you think “Rome”, there sure is a lot of reproduction going on) – four days after the 4-0 defeat of the Italian football team by the Spaniards (remember,…
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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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