December comes every year, bringing the same stress to the majority of the households with Christian traditions. But I was raised in Poland, where on the first day of the last month of the year, seemingly every Polish lady turns into a war strategist. Not only that, we navigate between shelves in the shopping malls with…
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Tofu and Terracotta Army
My first visit to China was to Shanghai in 2007. Unfortunately, my memories are somewhat mixed from that visit. It was mid-August, so the air was very humid, hot, with the heavy pollution visibly all around. It was difficult to take strolls and generally walk around with the dirt from the cars and overall air…
Waiting to take off
I love airports. Simple as that. Some more, some less, but I love the rush, departure boards, annoying security check queues and the thrill of an upcoming flight. For me, an airport is the place where my traveling adventures begin and end. Differently put, my travels do not begin when deciding how many trousers and pair…
Cats and lemons everywhere
Cyprus is quite an interesting creature, with its location on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea, straddling Europe, Middle East and North Africa underpinning its unique profile. The genealogy of today’s Cypriots stretches all the way back to time preceding the ancient Egypt, dating as far as tenth millennium BC. This is the earliest…
Halibut, whale and ice
The idea of visiting islands of North Atlantic came to the Other Me when we were stuck in traffic lights some time last January. I got excited immediately. What better place to escape the scorching hot Cypriot Summer then the biggest island in the world, 80% of which is covered by ice! So I did what I do best and organized…
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