When I was at the museum of the ghetto fighters, a group of female soldiers took a tour. Two female sergeants stood apart while the privates sat separately. Some wore sandals.......others, shoes. Nothing fancy for obvious reasons. I saw perhaps some irony in being in Israel and seeing sabra female soldiers who had no experience of Diaspora anti-semitism / diaspora mentality/ fears and norms.....trying to understand the ghetto experience and constant fears of the ghetto life. Perhap... read more

Well, in all honesty, for most people but me, it really would be just a bit too fast. On Thursday I was in Milan, same night in Ventimiglia, next early morning (Friday) Nice, today St. Raphael and now Sainte-Maxime. That is pretty fast isn't it, you can't really see much during the time. But for me, it's perfect, that's the reason I don't like the travel packages, they usually expect me to stay put in one town. Not really for me, even though I should try that out some day as well. I like moving ... read more

I'm here, I actually sticked to my impulsive plan and arrived Sainte-Maxime like I had planned to. Well, yes, the plan was born about 5 hours ago, but still. Plan nevertheless. One point for me. So far the town looks nice...okay okay, I've only seen the small bus station and a bar I'm sitting in right now (and the 50 meters between the two) but looks good! Even though...I'm starting to remember that maybe this town didn't have sandy beaches either, but rather small rocks compared to nice's b... read more

So yesterday I was thinking of renting an apartment in Nice for a week or two and now I'm on a train towards St. Raphael in order to take a bus from there and go to Saint-Maxime. Nice is great, I really like the city, but I'm not terribly fond of the beach there, instead of sand they have a rocky beach area. So I was looking for some nice beaches nearby and found Antibes (quite near to Nice), Saint-Maxime, Le Lavandou, Hyeres. Ah yes, I also found a 65 euro plane ticket to Biarritz on 15... read more

Here I am, in Riga (Latvia) airport. It's 5.21am and I arrived here more than half and hour ago. Why is it so that transportation arrives earlier than it should only when you don't really need it...or would rather prefer couple of hour delay? I guess that's where Murphy's laws pop in. While I was still waiting for the bus in Pärnu, after I had had couple of beers in my brother's place, I realized once again (yeah, I tend to discover some things way too often, again) that I really shouldn't ha... read more

I bought my plane ticket from Riga to Milan on Monday. Unfortunately I couldn't find any great buses to Riga, so even thought my plane leaves at 11.40am, I'll be hopping on a bus 2.20am, arriving in Riga around 3 hours later and then will have something like 6 hours of time to do nothing. Well...that's what you get if you buy as cheap flight tickets as possible. Ryanair - right now though, even their cheap wasn't too cheap. Cost me around 100 EUR. For Ryanair it's not cheap. But one way or an... read more

A friend of mine has asked me quite a few times if I’d like to go to Morocco with him. He’s been there before but thought that even though it shouldn’t be too dangerous, he wouldn’t like to take the trip to West-Sahara, more specifically Laayoune alone. Last time he was in Morocco his bus caught fire, go figure. I do hope it won’t happen this time, at least not while I’m there. Or if it does, I hope I can at least get a few good shots of it. If I remember correctly (well, I got my friend to ... read more

Until now I’ve usually gone abroad about once a year. Main destination has been France. I’ve hitch-hiked, taken 12-hour night trains and of course, used a bit more comfortable way of traveling – floating through air on planes. The upcoming plans however have just a bit different expectations, mainly frequency-wise. I intend to go to a new trip every 2 months if not a lot more often and write about it, show you pictures of the destinations, videos and a lot more. I’m not a plan-ahead guy so I ... read more