TRAVELLOG, part 1 ‘I don’t sense anything,’ I tell Anne. It’s a day before departure for the Azores, and I still have no idea what we are going to do there.‘Maybe that’s just the point,’ Anne replies.Fortunately, our eight travel companions – and others traveling with us at home – are already fully immersed in …
Two weeks after the world woke up in shock and horror on 7 October, Anne and I are travelling towards the Sinai desert. ‘Should we even go?” we ask ourselves. Just like other trips, it feels we are flying straight into a storm. But once we arrive in St Katherine – Anne with a group …
“You look like Gandalf,” a woman calls out as I walk out of the gate at Les Contes with walking stick and backpack. I’m going out into the mountains alone for two days. I am wearing gray pants and a gray vest. Gandalf the Grey.After giving a group here in the Cathar countryside, it felt …
While I am waiting for 1,5 hours in the airplane to fly back to Portugal – after two weeks in the Netherlands and Belgium – the stewardess announces: “Dear people, due to a broken air conditioner, we can’t take off yet. We ask everyone to leave the plane again. Please take your hand luggage with …
If there is anything the Avatar films symbolise, it is the bond we as humanity have with planet Earth. Although the films are set on Pandora, this Greek name refers directly to our own planet. In ancient times, Pandora was the name of the goddess who represented Mother Earth. In her jar, she brought all …
One of the most iconic movie scenes in recent decades is when Neo wakes up from the Matrix. He realises that he is in reality a battery living an artificial life in a digital reality. The world he lives in is one big computerised programme, the Matrix. His mentor, Morpheus, explains to him: “You’ve been …
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