“Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it’s a short way from not knowing who’s at the other end of your food chain to not caring – to the carelessness of both producers and consumers.” Michael Pollan We have run out of fruit. Today, we are in search of more. Light through the window wakes…
Year: 2025
Summer in Grožnjan
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” F. Scott Fitzgerald We wake up and head out for a run. A slow 5km in the warm morning…
South is North
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” Lao Tzu Breakfast at Zërgë Coffeeshop before we head to the airport to pick up the car. A change of plans and a change of…
Early Mornings
“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.” Henry David Thoreau Shell wants to run this holiday. I have not run in over four years. I am sure I will be fine. I have long been an advocate of strengthening the mind…
Home to Budapest
“…everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go!” Fyodor Dostoyevsky We land in Budapest, and it feels like coming home. We have been discussing the possibility of including Budapest on this trip and the…
Villinus – Lithuania (maybe)
“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don’t stop to think, don’t interrupt the scream, exhale, release life’s rapture.” Vladimir Nabokov Overcast but not raining. We head to Lithuania today. Chopin Airport for the whip. The last time we entered Lithuania, our car mysteriously stopped at an intersection….
Rain
“The best thing one can do when it rains is let it ran” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We wake up to rain. It may not seem like a big deal, but over the last two years, Dubai has had ten days of rain. Over the previous twelve months, no rain. Everything is quiet and out of…
Arrivals – Warsaw
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” Henry Miller Summer in Warsaw is a very different experience from summer in Dubai. The 25 °C is incomparable to the 50 °C we have left behind. We are off the plane in an Uber in record time; I guess less than…
Departures – Sharjah
“there is no end of the road when you travel with me” Song lyrics that made me think of Rachelle I have carried what is now diagnosed as scleritis for over six months. The day after school ends, I stop taking the medication, and my eye remains clear a week later. Work, location and money…