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on November 16, 2020

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I spent most of Saturday exploring Sofia...

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Coffee, Cocoa and Picture-Perfect Palm Trees

It's been pinned on the travel map, but we didn't expect to visit it so soon: the Dominican Republic. This beautiful place in the Caribbean is known for its all inclusive tourism, which, as you might know, it not "our thing". Travel blogs and videos of individual travelers were rather scarce. The few people who had experience had nothing good to say. We still decided to go and give it a try. With a positive attitude, my Spanish knowledge and travel experience and some luck, we crossed our fingers and simply hoped that all would go well. It took us two days to get accustomed. The heat, the fact that we were the obvious gringos, the traffic, authorities armed with machine guns, prices being offered in USD... it felt strange. The one thing that never got any better: the exhausting traffic conditions. Not so much the quantity of road users but the pure fact that ANYTHING is possible at any time: ... passing on the side strip, left or right lane. Passing even though ther...

Pizza, pasta and fire-spitting volcanoes

Sicily during off season, good choice. A flight, a renal car and the first night after arrival is all we booked, so we were free and flexible to explore. We were not sure whether 12 days would be too much for such a small island, but it had so much to offer that there wasn't a single lame day. From mountain cities to salinas, from beaches and nature reserves to volcanoes and ancient towns, from citrus orchards to temples ...that is how much variety Sicily had to give. The highlights: - walking on empty beaches - finding porcupine quills - standing atop of Mount Etna - watching flamingos - exploring a pitch-black lava cave, finding bats - savoring busiate, pizza, pasta di norma, pesto di pistacchio, arancine, ... - watching Strombili spit fire The last mentioned was definitely the crowning glory! We took the afternoon ferry, arrived on Strombili around 4 pm. Our host met us at the port, loaded our luggage on an Ape, and with a rattling sound he drove off, awaiting ...

Freezing but Warming Up

Due to the covid situatuion, the education centre is having online classes in the morning and 4 hours of playtime in the park in the afternoon. With temperatures around 8 degrees Celsius, a "nesh" like me is having difficulties to enjoy the outdoors. However, day three of my precense and some of the kids already open up to me. Besides playing soccer and some minor painting, I was invited to one of the tree houses, given a gypsum stone and tools to carve it and I was even given a piece of chocolate, even though it was the last in the box. So even though the temperatures are rather unpleasant, I can feel some heart warming affection to relativize it.

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