I take the blue line, change to the green one in T-Centralen, and go down in Slussen. I glance through the windows of the galleries while walking through Hornsgatan. I was planning to watch the sunset from the viewpoint at Skinnarviksparken but the weather is not on my side and…

“We were born too late,” Coco says. “There is nothing left to discover.” It’s nine in the evening. We are sitting on the terrace of a cafe not far from the Reuilly Diderot metro. The weather is fresh and my beer is cold and Morpheus’ grip tightens around me with…

Travel Notes: Turkey Part IV — The small M6 bus left me halfway to the airport. I still had one hour to take one more bus that would drive me to the front of the main gate. There were not many people at the stop and I was starting to feel a little anxious about the…

Travel Notes: Turkey Part III — Children ran in and out of the store. It was already late, and the sky was dark. I was tired and the cold evening gave chills to my skin. “These kids are also refugees”, said Fadell. “Most of them are orphans. …

Travel Notes: Annapurna Circuit, Nepal — I got a seat next to the window. It didn’t take long before the bus was packed. Even when we had left the station, the driver kept picking more people in the streets of Pokhara to the point where there were more passengers standing than in the seats. I was…

Travel Notes: Turkey Part II — Burcu (pronounced in French accent “Burllu”) and his brother Hussein Jon picked me up at the bus station. I wasn’t able to tell them that my bus was running one hour late, and they had to wait until I arrived. Their apartment was on the other side of town. Their…

Travel Notes: Ireland Pt 1. — I boarded the last ferry in the afternoon. The wind was blowing hard against the boat. Drops of rain crashed against the cold windows. …

Travel Notes: Kathmandu, Nepal — “Hashish, Hashish,” whispered a voice four inches away from my left ear in the street. In my mind, I still held the image of Kathmandu as a mysterious city hidden within the mountain range of the Himalayas with Buddhist temples on every corner covered in snow and tormented by the…

Travel Notes: Istanbul, Turkey — Bayrampasa was the biggest and most complicated bus station I saw during my 15 months of traveling. I got off the bus completely disoriented. Istanbul made me nervous, even before I stepped foot in Turkey. …