Posts from year 2024
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The layers of London
Landing back in London usually hits me like a headlong plunge into a familiar rabbit hole, but this time, something is different. The city has been rattled by Brexit, reeling from the loss of Queen Elizabeth and gasping for air once more after the Covid times.
30 years of Mink Machine
30 years is a very long time. When I think back, 1994 was an interesting year (read this in the voice of Connor MacLeod from The Highlander).
Way Out West 2024
There’s something beautifully deranged about Way Out West. Equal parts eclectic music, in-your-face eco-manifesto and fashion runway for young people who haven’t seen dirt in years. It’s a three-day hallucination where vegan kebab is considered gourmet and half the crowd looks like extras from a Wes Anderson fever dream.
The sound of Berlin
It’s a scorching summer day in Berlin with 30 degrees. Coincidentally, it’s been 40 years since the release of Summer in Berlin, the well-known song by German band Alphaville. This was a song that I listened to a lot at the time it was released way back in 1984.
A taste of Swabia
Few people dream of Stuttgart. It’s not sexy. It doesn’t seduce. It’s a place that minds its business while cranking out Mercedes-Benz under gray skies.
The Orecchiette ladies of Bari
The old part of Bari was known as “mugging town” a few decades ago. The tradition of theft started way back in 1087, as Barese sailors managed to steal the bones of St Nicholas (the model for Santa Claus) from Turkey and brought his remains to their city.
Influences in Gallipoli
As with many cities around the Mediterranean Sea, Gallipoli has a checkered past with influences from a multitude of invading forces. The old town of Gallipoli is located on an island, facing the Ionian Sea.
The magic of Matera
There are places that wear their past like a scar. Matera doesn’t hide. It doesn’t gloss over. It stands there, carved into the rock, staring back through the centuries. Silent, enduring, and more real than most cities dare to be.
Movie locations around the world part 9
This is part 9 of my quest for finding movie locations around the world. Contents: Mission Impossible 6 Fallout, Tenet, John Wick 3, John Wick 4, The Italian Job, 3 Days To Kill, The Tourist, Spartacus, Everyone Says I Love You, Excalibur, Carlito’s Way, Ronin, Saving Private Ryan, The International, Once, Jack Ryan, Ghostbusters 2, Zulu, The Quiet Man.
Review: The Map of Knowledge
Usually travel stories are centered around a person doing the traveling, but this time around the actual travel is rather performed by ideas. The Map of Knowledge by Violet Moller is not a travel book in the traditional sense, but the story on how learnings were passed down through the centuries.