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Underground Cisterns
Visiting the underground Cistern was met with extreme joy – mainly because it was 40°C outside, and losing a few degrees was a welcome respite. Dim orange light, carp fish swimming in the water, water dripping from the ceiling: dating back to the sixth century A.D., the underground cistern is about the size of two…
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Hagia Sophia
I don’t remember how we came up with Turkey; the country popped out of thin air, and the next thing I knew we had booked a hotel and a flight and had a guidebook ordered from Amazon in our postbox. Don’t all trips start like that, anyway? Not really knowing where to go, settling on an…
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And At Once I Knew I Was Not Magnificent
Future stretches once again into the unknown, long-term and short-term plans are thrown into a paper bag, shaken, and I haven’t opened the bag yet to know what will happen, and maybe I’ll bide my time, because I don’t want to know yet… So. Evenings by the pool, summer welcoming us with rain, but it…
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Go and Find a Place to Let it All Out
Philip Selway’s solo album is doing my head in. I never even knew there was a voice lurking within that bald guy behind the drumkit, often overshadowed by Thom Yorke’s manic dancing. But then again, I should’ve known that every damn member of Radiohead is a genius. I once read this article where the journalist…
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The End is the Beginning is the End
I’m packing to go back to Paris … to pack. Our Roma stint is coming to an end; here I am on my knees, packing again. The sky changes drastically from day to day. Yesterday I was downtown in shorts and sandals, and today it’s raining and gray. There seems to be no consistency to…
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Fruit of our Labors
May 1st was spent grilling seafood with new friends under a very cooperative blue sky. Our host, Fabio, told us that summers can be unbearably hot here in Rome. “The sky is so blue, and the sun beats down so hard. I prefer the humidity in Manila.” Thing is, high temperatures don’t faze me. Two…
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Pronto
I feel really silly thinking back on all the bitching I did when I was packing stuff to take along to Qatar. Because now, with a child in tow, it’s much, much harder. So much harder that I’ve had a headache for the past couple of days. Again, the malle, our big blue trunk, is…
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34° 21′ 24″ South Latitude, 18° 29′ 51″ East Longitude
A few photos from South Africa Currently listening to:The Cure4:13 Dream