Oct 18, 2025 | Opinions, Storytelling
text and photo: Dominika Zaręba The land known as Northumbria, located in the north-eastern corner of England, is famous for Hadrian’s Wall – a UNESCO World Heritage Site built by Emperor Hadrian in the first half of the 2nd century. It was intended to mark the...
Nov 19, 2023 | Storytelling
Vast marshes and bogs, wet meadows, unregulated rivers and dense forests together form a mosaic – the „capital of Estonia’s wilderness” and the „land of bogs” (soomaa in Estonian). It is home to wolves, brown bears, lynx and rare bird species including:...
May 15, 2019 | Storytelling
Every trip is associated with some smell, taste, color… Belarus smells of wood, herbs drying out in the sun, tea brewed in a samovar with a view out onto a forest of pine, fir and birch. It tastes of eggplant and spicy adjika, which we enjoyed while celebrating...
Dec 15, 2018 | Storytelling
Three majestic volcanos: Atitlán, Tolimán and San Pedro guard Atitlán – a Mayan lake as large as a sea. Atitlán, a name that’s fascinating to locals and visitors alike. A place taken straight from the magic realism prose and poetry that is associated with contemporary...
Oct 27, 2018 | Storytelling
Sajnbajnu is a Mongolian greeting, which translates into English as: Good day, how are you, are you all right? … You cannot respond to it in the negative. Talking about sadness is considered to bring bad luck. In Mongolia, you have to believe and think...
Feb 14, 2018 | Storytelling
Ungasan – a small village on the Indonesian island of Bali, not far from the Ulu Watu temple, is best known for the Indonesian cookery courses that take place there. A local family, all smiles, invites you to come in and visit their traditional home with its spatious...
