Tenerife in March was exactly the sweet escape I desperately needed. After burning out, getting fired, and filing a lawsuit against my boss, it felt like the ground beneath me was constantly shifting, ...
22-24/11/2017, Agra and Jim Corbett’s National Park (India) “So I’m taking you to the Taj Mahal now” “No please, it’s too late and we will have to rush it, plus we want to be there at dawn to see it ...
19-20-21/11/2017, Jaipur and Fatehpur Sikri (India) Let’s be honest: It wasn’t love at first sight. It was chaos, colours, incense scent, garbage, flowers, cows, smog, greasy street food and a ...
16-20/08/2017, Hamburg and Lübeck (Germany) The first thing that hit me was the smell of fried fish in the air, the second, how the wind was relentlessly blowing. Third, I noticed that people seem to ...
CALI Days spent: 3 Days recommended: not more than 2 (unless you’ve been polishing your dancing shoes for months and can’t wait to sign up for salsa classes) Where we slept: After more than a week of ...
Days spent: 4 days (3 as part of the Salar de Uyuni tour) Days recommended: 3 (if you manage to make arrangements for the Salar de Uyuni tour before heading to town, or also, simply arrive late in the ...
Days spent: 1+1/2 Days recommended: 2 Where we slept: private itsy-bitsy undecorated and windowless double at hippie Alice in Wonderland-styled Tilcara Mistica Hostel and dorm at Waira Hostel. What we ...
[for the previous part] What to do (continues): Laguna Chaxa. An endless field of rugged crystals, interrupted here and there by reddish-brownish lagoons. Right in the middle of Salar de Atacama, this ...
CONCON and VIÑA DEL MAR Days spent: 1 Days recommended: 1 What we ate: fried empananadas (you can have some pretty amazing filling: crab and cheese, marisco -seafood- and pino -beef, onions, raisins, ...
Days spent: 3 Days recommended: 1 is enough for the wine tour, up to you if you want to visit the city or go to the hot springs. Where we slept: dorm in Lagares Hostel, a cheap, clean and super ...
Days spent: 4 + 1/2 days Days recommended: we thought we had a good picture of the city when we left but I guess you can easily spend there a week. Where we slept: modern Airbnb studio flat with a ...
Days spent: 2 (1 on the Brazilian side and 1 on the Argentinian one) Days recommended: 2 are enough Where we slept: Tetris Hostel in Foz do Iguaçu, made of containers, affordable, with a bubbly young ...
SÃO PAULO Days spent: 1 + 1/2 Days recommended: it depends on what you fancy. If you are a museum fanatic, probably 3 days are better. Where we slept: our friend Talita hosted us in trendy Bela Vista. ...
[for the first part: https://andrejrusskovskij.com/?p=3341] What to do (continues): Ride the waves of Barra de Tijuca, or, most likely, let them hopelessly drift you away. [You can reach the surfers’ ...
Viola di Grado is a Sicilian multi-awarded young writer who broke the scene at only 23 with the novel “70% Acrylic 30% Wool”. I met her briefly few years ago but I had the chance to get to know her ...