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“Reading the World: How I read a book from every country” by Ann Morgan
The book tells a story of how the author successfully read one book from each country in a year - 196 books in total. The first edition...
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Oct 63 min read


Hatton Cross
General info Hatton Cross is a London Underground station located in Travelcard zones 5 and 6. It is on the Heathrow branch of...
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Sep 292 min read


Postcrossing Meetup at 140th VERONAFIL Philately Exhibition
Veronafil is a biannual exhibition dedicated to philately, numismatics, postcards, phonecards, small antiques, prints, old books, and...
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May 253 min read


Bolzano Film Festival: 38th edition
The Bolzano Film Festival, held annually in Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, is a prominent event that celebrates both Italian and international...
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Apr 284 min read


Naturno/Naturns: first quick glance at the Vinschgau valley
Naturns, Naturno in Italian, is a municipality in South Tyrol, located about 40 km northwest of its capital Bolzano. Its population is...
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Aug 2, 20242 min read


Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3
The station was opened as Heathrow Central on 16 December 1977. At the time, it served as a terminus station of what became known as the...
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Jun 14, 20242 min read


Brenner Base Tunnel Open Day 2024
The Brenner Base Tunnel is a flat railway tunnel that streches between Fortezza in Italy and Innsbruck in Austria. It has been under...
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Jun 10, 20242 min read


Heathrow Terminal 4
Heathrow Terminal 4 is a London underground tube station on the Heathrow branch of the Piccadilly line, located in Travelcard zone 6. The...
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Apr 6, 20242 min read


Heathrow Terminal 5
Heathrow Terminal 5 is a London underground tube station located in Travelcard zone 6. It is a terminus station of the Piccadilly line...
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Mar 23, 20241 min read


Verona. Sunday. Bookshops
Last Sunday was one of those days when I wanted to be around books. As libraries are usually closed on Sunday, I decided to visit the...
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Mar 19, 20244 min read


Mezzocorona (Trentino, Italy)
A short visit to Mezzocorona, a small town about 15 km north of Trento and about 5 km from the South Tyrol border
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Feb 23, 20243 min read


"Funny You Should Ask" by Elissa Sussman
SPOILER ALERT: there are some spoilers in the review below. I bought the book at the Sabiha Gökçen airport in Istanbul to have something...
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Sep 3, 20222 min read


"A Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sarah J. Maas
There has been a lot of hype around this book series, so when I saw the first book in one of Istanbul's bookshops, I bought it as I...
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Aug 19, 20223 min read


Tbilisi Street Art
This post is more about pictures than words. So you will find a lot of photos but not so much description. I have been living in Tbilisi,...
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Feb 5, 20223 min read


Istanbul Diary. Day 1
I decided to tell about my visit to Istanbul in the form of a diary - it is a new format for me, but I will try my best. January 23, 2022...
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Jan 26, 20225 min read


My 2021 Year in Books
Here are books I read in 2021 in no particular order with a small review. Books on the "World of Warcraft" universe In 2021 I read quite...
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Jan 14, 20228 min read


New Book Challenge and its First Book - "Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982" by Cho Nam-Joo
I started yet another book challenge, the third one for me. It is almost the same as my book travelling challenge, I will read books by...
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Dec 30, 20215 min read


Book Travelling Challenge
A few years back I decided to expand my reading horizons by reading books by authors outside the USA and the UK, as it seemed that I...
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Dec 28, 202110 min read


"Homo Deus" by Yuval Noah Harari
This was the second Harari's novel I read, "Sapiens" being the first one. I read, or rather, listened to it, for quite a long time,...
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Dec 17, 20214 min read
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