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
Berlin is a city of sounds. Strolling through Kreuzberg or Friedrichshain, I don’t just hear Berlin, I feel it in my chest. That pulsing bass from an underground club I’ll never find again.
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
Bari isn’t on most people’s Italian bucket list. It’s not Rome with its crumbling glory, not Florence with its Renaissance architecture and definitely not Venice with its overpriced drinks at Caffè Florian. No, Bari is different. Raw and charming, in that special south Italian way.
Influences in Gallipoli
The old town of Gallipoli sits on an island like a faded crown, tethered to the mainland by a bridge that looks like it’s been there forever. The scent of salt, fried fish, and old Catholic guilt hangs in the air.
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.