Europe
Rome through Roman eyes – Giselle from Buenos Aires
We have decided that our daughter will have an empire name. Here is the story of my relationship with Rome. Giselle, Buenos Aires
We have decided that our daughter will have an empire name. Here is the story of my relationship with Rome. Giselle, Buenos Aires
The village of Viscri, or the “white Saxon church”, is among the most beautiful villages in the world. A jewel in the heart of Transylvania, Romania.
I am fascinated by understanding the mechanisms that guide and regulate interactions. In Korea, vocabulary reflects the complexity of relationships.
Column on #Words: Confusion that is disturbance, chaos, but also an opportunity to experience Harmony. Elisingiro
Pachamama. Mother Earth. Mother Goddess. I was unaware of its existence before traveling to Peru along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. Cristina, walking around.
The Waldensians were an almost unknown people to me, as were their valleys. In the last year, however, I have spent most of my time in Torre Pellice. Discover it with me, Elisingiro
Before reaching the milestone of the “couple look”, the ‘dating’ phase in Korea follows very specific rituals. Dates are, therefore, not fully blind.
Giselle’s wedding was supposed to be in April. I had booked tickets and a room in the Tigre, on the delta of the Rio de la Plata. Canceled due to covid19.
Normality and strangeness change along meridians and parallels and appearence speaks about customs and traditions of a Country. Here some South Korean curiosities.
Generally we start from Saint-Jean Pied de Port. The route starts from the Pyrenees. It is about 800 km to Santiago. Cristina, walking around.
The village of Saschiz, or “the village of the road”, is a UNESCO heritage site and is divided in its very middle by the national road Brașov – Sighișoara.
My days in the highest desert in the world near San Pedro de Atacama in Chile. Desert and a city of 2,500 inhabitants, full stop. Giselle from Buenos Aires
Seoul reflects the contrast between tradition and avant-garde. Slow vs fast times going from the traditional market to the home delivery
I said to myself: “Cri, how about leaving for Spain and taking the Camino of Santiago? and I answered to myself “Why not!”. Cristina, walking around.
I am a walker. I walk with my feet, with my mind and with my heart, but I haven’t always been a walker. Cristina, walking around.
When a Mexican tells you “mi casa es tu casa”, he really means it. Here is the story of my relationship with Mexico. Giselle, Buenos Aires
What it takes to make a new city a “home” is a good relationship with the culinary local culture. Alessandra, South Korea
Richis is the first Saxon village I visited, it is located in the heart of Transylvania in Romania, near the medieval cities of Sighișoara and Mediaș.
I am Iulia, I live in Bucharest but my love is for the Saxon villages of Transylvania, where time seems to have stopped.
I was born and live in Buenos Aires, although most of the time it seems that my life takes place in a small piece of Italy. Giselle, Buenos Aires
I’ve always lived on the second or third floor of low-rise buildings. From the twenty-second floor, what is far away is much sharper. Alessandra, South Korea
On my road trip, I listened to philosophy podcasts and read a lot. Passing through Hanover, I couldn’t help but return to Hannah Arendt.
During our on-the-road trip in Denmark I found a beautiful word: hygge, a sense of warmth, intimacy, a door to happiness.
Journey into words … We not only feel emotions within us, but we recognize them in others. Empathy is an engine for our evolution.
Andrea and Giuliana have been living in quarantine for a while, a Parkinson’s has put them in front of a new life, keeping their promise “in health and sickness”.
Journey into words … Is happiness a transitory state or a condition of well-being to aspire to? We talk about it on this journey into emotions.
Journey into words … Is sadness a lack, a feeling of lack of something: a form of loneliness? Or a bridge to something to come?
Journey into words … anger like other emotions creates an inner movement in us and leads us to other places, from anger to impatience to reaction.
Journey through words … Discovering an emotion that frightens but which is also functional to our existence, fear.
Marco is an energetic person, a “big man” with a smile always printed on his face. He works with the poor for Opera San Francesco in Milan.
Vincenzo has been living and working in Paraguay in Asuncion, the capital for 4 years. After graduation, he did an internship there and then stayed to teach Italian
Maria is a stubborn person and in love with France. She met Arnaud and started dreaming of opening a restaurant, but the covid has shuffled the cards.
Journey into words … Game as a joke, competition, trap … What is the game for us and what role does it play in our lives?
Journey into words … Responsibility. We often associate the word with a sense of heaviness, but what is it and how can it affect us and others?
Journey into words … Being vs doing. How much are we what we are and how much what we do? The dilemma of being versus doing.
Journey into words … Betrayal. We discover this word to which we usually associate a negative meaning to find, perhaps, something different.
Journey into words … Let’s find out what exclusivity is, what lies within the folds of this so fashionable word in our current vocabulary?
Journey into words … Travel is often a symbol of our authenticity: we take ourselves on the journey, we feel more free than at home.
Journey into words … Why sincerity as the first stop? Because we would like, to start this journey, to show us as we are.
Nicola’s work as an oncologist in the covid19 emergency period has stalled, as have therapies to protect patients from infection.
Veronica compares her life to a broken pencil. As an oncological patient, she also bravely faced this moment of emergency covid19.
For Cristina, there is an analogy between the experience of cancer – which she experienced firsthand – and that of covid19: life like before can no longer be lived.
Mom, dad and two daughters, one 17 and 20 years old already married with a child, living on a single-income. They arrived to Milan from rural Romania and found themselves homeless.
Anna, who works in social housing therefore in close contact with people in situations of housing emergency, today can only work from home
Sharing with others what you experience often serves to make sense of the experience itself. Massimo tells what he lived during the COVID19 emergency in the hospital.
Giada and Stefano met in Calcutta, India, and decided their destiny would be there. In fact, they founded Samsara Roads and live in Varanasi, India.
Angelo left Italy 15 years ago to manage a health centre in Bouar. Today, because of the coronavirus emergency, his patients risk to be left without treatment
Lucas is Brazilian, but originally from Veneto. He is doing the opposite route compared to his grandparents who went to Brazil from Italy.
Alessandra lives in Seoul, Korea and according to her the success of the coronavirus emergency management is due to the institutions and the Confucian culture of respect.
Cesare called himself Tony. He is Mexican, but also Italian. He tries to get the citizenship despite his father – the great absent – is Italian.
Ruso is Georgian by origin, but today she is a perfect New Yorker. She is an architect and an artist, her illustrations make you think and daydream.
Mauro did a record-breaking triathlon: from Sardinia to the Polar Circle by bike, then off the coast of Lofoten swimming and lastly to North Kapp on foot.
“Arrested, handcuffed, blindfolded and taken to an unknown detention center, accused of” propaganda against the Islamic Republic “. PEACE GULF
Franz story in Shiraz, the Brazilian nomad I met in Iran. He left his office life in Rio de Janeiro and now travels around the world.
Where does the word quarantine come from? The Persian Avicenna in 1025 theorized the 40 days of isolation to prevent infections’ spreading. #20quarantinestories
Melany’s story takes place in Milan in a community that welcomes mothers and children who find themselves in situations of social fragility.
I have met Lev in Moscow, he hosted me at his house in the suburbs of Moscow and then took me to visit his mum, the lovely Natalya, at the dacha.
I ended up at Vladya’s place in the centre of Saint Petersburg during my Transiberian journey because he was a friend of Sasha, my host on Couchsurfing.
“Doctor Ione”, as everyone knows her in the Central African Republic, is a petite woman, quick in her movements and with a sharp tongue.
Sasha opened the door of his house at 7 in the morning in a summer day of August.
The story of Saber in the Wadi Rum desert, Jordan. He looks African, in fact he is a Jordanian from Amman and the desert to him is synonymous of freedom.
The story of Andrea the Swiss from Jerash in Jordan is the story of a man with a turbulent life who decided to live in a peaceful corner of the world.