Last month, I was in Mytilini, Lesvos, for a week, to attend a summer school. And the island itself did not take too long to quietly take ...

  It’s 1:42 AM and I’m still awake, staring at the ceiling like it owes me answers. Recently, there’s this statue in Maastricht that dragg...

  While it hasn't been my turn yet to introduce and boast to friends some of the best stuff Belgium has to offer, from the classic  choc...

  My last stop for this Christmas 2023 holiday trip was this Dutch city called The Hague (locally, Den Haag). There were no heavy reasons I ...

Much has been said  about Dubrovnik   in the past (at least in this site), so I’ll save the new story about it for another time.  Split, mea...

  The only kind of hike I’m willing to take these days is, literally, up a trail. And one that recently left my quads fully worked-out was i...

  Another day, the same city.  That’s how academic life feel sometimes, as a perennial student (and as a student of life). Lab, grocery, hom...

My phone got stolen earlier this year – the same phone loaded with about 90% of my notes on what to write about in this blog. It contained h...

  Novi Sad offers a side of Serbia that contrasts sharply with the intensity of the capital Belgrade, scarred yet unbroken after centuries o...

  Moving forward with my Christmas 2023 solo travel, my next destination was the daring and turbulent city of Amsterdam. Despite the anticip...