Posts from year 2017
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Terminus festival in Calgary
There’s something beautifully perverse about flying halfway across the world to spend some days in a dark room full of black-clad strangers while the summer sun glares outside, confused and ignored. But that’s the magic of Terminus Festival.
Through Wales without a Tardis
Ah, Wales. The country with the most impressive and baffling language. It was even used in the Bosnian conflict, where a Welsh regiment used the language for as a way to “encrypt” communication.
A decade of development
What happens in a decade? When it comes to the Internet, quite a lot. In 2007 we didn’t have smartphones, apps, tablets or responsive design. Now, ten years later, there are 2.5 billion smartphones in the world.
Down the stream in Basel
It’s been about twenty years since my last time in Basel, I hope they don’t remember me. As I walked along the river Rhine, I thought back on the past two decades and how everything has changed, yet stayed the same.
A Swiss wedding
As the sun set over the Lake Zürich, the wedding celebration is kicking into high gear inside the Stübli. It feels good to be back in Switzerland, and even better to experience the best kind of festivities with a lot of love in the air.
Tales of Algarve
So I’m back in Portugal. Way down in the south region of Algarve, to be exact. The town of Faro is kind of sleepy, but since this is my fourth country visited in the last five days, I could use some rest.
Sessions in Seville
Seville is an old city with a long memory. It’s the kind of place where history isn’t behind hidden glass, but it seeps from the bricks and cobblestones.
Raiding Algeciras
Algeciras isn’t the kind of place that makes the cover of glossy travel magazines. It’s a gritty port city with bad lighting and a permanent bouquet of diesel. Most people treat it like a pit stop on the way to somewhere better.
The urban maze of Tangier
Tangier is a strange beast. The streets curl and writhe like a Lovecraftian tentacle, oblivious to geometry or reason. Google Maps gives up halfway through the first alley, surrendering to the timeless chaos.
Ascending Rock of Gibraltar
The Rock of Gibraltar rises like a stubborn old man at the edge of Europe. Grizzled, immovable and full of stories you’ve heard before. Part British, part Spanish, this odd chunk of limestone has been a pawn on the geopolitical chessboard for centuries.