From New York to Bangkok, this is what megalopolis look like in this crisis: a visual journey in an empty world. I have inserted the names of the cities and photographer's credits if you hover over each image. it's taken from an article in...
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everything you’ve always wanted to know about Sri Lanka with the kids |5|
Wow, that might be the longest travel series I've ever written! Five blog posts only about Sri Lanka, a country only the size of Ireland, yet starting to get some big recognition on travellers' minds. Our trip ended as it started ie. on a high cultural note, in...
sometimes you can have it all – Sri Lanka |4|
As I type this sunny Sri Lanka post in my very urban working space in London, I am transported back to the leopards, the elephants, the soft sand, the perfect waves, the curries, the tuk tuks, the temples... First, our safari night in Yala National Park, then our...
I’ll never have a cup of tea the same way again – Sri Lanka |3|
I know when I've traveled too much (is there ever such a thing?!). I don't have time to write about my last trip that I am already onto the next one. And that's no good!!! Here is the next leg of our Sri Lanka journey: the scenic tea plantation area in the center of...
Life in a treehouse, temple visits optional. Sri Lanka |2|
Colombo International Airport, March 25th, 4am: we dragged the five of us out of the Sri Lanka Airways plane in the middle of the night, and I thought to myself: what if our driver did not show up. For a second, it was as if our lives depended on him, on someone that...
Sri Lanka ශ්රී ලංකාව is so much more than India soft |1|
There's been quite a buzz about Sri Lanka over the last ten years, now that the images of the tsunami devastation are behind, and with the Tamil Tigers signing a truce in 2009. However, I had always been a bit put off by the commonly-heard statement that "doing Sri...
Japan |4|: Rural mountains & Tokyo
Here's the last part of our Japan trilogy: 2 nights in Obuse in the mountains - they call them the Japanese Alps! - and 5 nights in Tokyo to finish it all. Obuse is a small town 1hour away from Nagano (where the Olympics took place several years ago), 4...
Japan |3|: Kyoto and the Kiso Valley
This is the second part of our Japanese trilogy. We went from Hiroshima to Kyoto by train where we stayed 3 nights, and then went up north to the Japanese Alps by train again, to a tiny village called Magome. Kyoto - A typical and perfect way to arrive...
Japan |2|: Osaka/ Naoshima/ Miyajima
I've been waiting for the right moment to tell you all about our trip in Japan. I wanted the posts to be the perfect reflection of everything that we experienced. But it's impossible. Our journey there was so rich in Emotions. Tastes & Smells....
Japan on my mind |1|
I have been daydreaming about our upcoming trip to Japan lately, watching this video January in Japan. I love the way director Scott Gold shares with us the simple things of life there, the way the camera moves around so delicately. We will be there in just a few...
The Maldives on a family budget
Maldives & Budget. Doesn't it sound like an oxymoron? I thought so, until I read an interesting piece in the in-flight magazine of BA last Sunday. (I was on my way back from Istanbul, by the way. I have talked about Istanbul here and there, and here again, but...
Object of desire from Lhasa, Tibet
I just fell in love. With skulls. They are the skulls of yaks from the high plateau of Tibet, hand embellished by local artisans with Buddhist poems and intricate drawings. Tashi + Ro sells them and will donate 8% of all the profits to the local organisations linked...
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How I traveled to Syria for my birthday, and loved it
Yes I traveled to Syria last week. Not the broken and abused Syria that we all know from the news but the Syria full of colours, smiles and flavours that once stood proud. That’s right, that's where we all went on Thursday night with a bunch of super girlfriends and...
i am a pure and proud product of immigration
this is me in the 70's at my beloved grandmother's house. i am a pure and proud product of immigration. My Christian grandmother escaped poverty in Italy between the two wars and crossed the Alps with mother and brothers in search of a better life in the mining towns...
I wonder what Hemingway would say about Cuba today
Everyone's talking about Cuba these days, and I am thrown 20 years back to when I first visited this special island, and left it with mixed feelings about its future. I was 20 years old back then. During a summer internship in Caracas (that's a whole other blog...
The wife vs. the mother, Bhutan |1|
We're back from a trip in Bhutan, which I really want to document properly on BozAround. It will be mainly through photos as I took sooo many, and they will tell much more about this beautiful country than my own words. Bhutan is roughly the size of Switzerland,...