A reflection of my time in Bosnia & Herzegovina, written for Most-Mira and CUNY's Project on Peacebuilding 2018: Democracy and Post-Conflict Politics in BiH. For more info on this exceptional course: http://www.mostmiraproject.org * I press my forehead against the window of our van as we enter Bosnia & Herzegovina. The landscape swills, filling my locked eyes [...]
Category: Travels
So long, Montréal: on houses, homes and how to begin to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
Phoebe: i found it so weird being at home, because nothing had changed, and it was like canada was this weird fantasy world that i surely hands [hadn’t] lived in for four months but totally had like when the pevensie children spend their whole lives in narnia then come out and it’s the moment after [...]
Letters from Montréal: October 2017
What I talk about when I talk about 'What I talk about when I talk about running' It’s been a while, hasn’t it? And yet it feels like no time at all. I’ve been in Montréal on my year abroad for almost two months now, but every so often it seems like two years or [...]
Europe 9. ROME-ING AROUND
day by day, train by train: the story of our European adventure Eagerly launching an early morning, I organised our bookings for the Vatican and nibbled on a cracker based breakfast. Once the technological deal was sealed, we set off swiftly and said goodbye to Kaila who was going to meet Serena. We arrived at [...]
Europe 8. HBD 2 Kaila Conley-Controversey
day by day, train by train: the story of our European adventure It was our favourite (admittedly only) American-Italian amie's 18th birthday today, so we made sure it would be celebrated in style. When Kaila left the house in the morning to 'sort out her band card', the rest of us covered the table with [...]
Europe 7. Ciao Lerici, we beseech thee, Flo was not fond of your Iced Peach Tea, but each of us will miss your beach, even when we reach Rome Termini
day by day, train by train: the story of our European adventure And so went our last day in Lerici, which was naturally spent, rather than Lerici, out-of-town trekking in La Spezia and the first of the Cinque Terras. Our first stop raiding the local supermarket, we then explored La Spezia with our packed lunches [...]
Europe 6. the fabulous food of fabrizio & nati
day by day, train by train: the story of our European adventure *** Being the morning lark that I most famously am, I forced myself awake at 8:30am for a lonesome stroll along and around Lerici and then into the next village of San Terenzo. I ventured up to the supermarket, finally conquering the European [...]
Europe 5. Margherita eats margherita
day by day, train by train: the story of our European adventure *** One long and glorious sleep in our own little haven later and we were up and out for our first (but of course not first pastry-based) breakfast two doors down in Lerici. I couldn't tell if my saturated appreciation of this coffee and croissant [...]
Europe 4. you don’t know nothing
day by day, train by train: the story of our European adventure As Kaila and I didn't really sleep all night, feeling like a slightly over-proud and very under-successful martyr, I continued into the next day fuelled by a sickly chocolate oozing pastry (or two), meaning that I felt an inconvenient concoction of ill and fatigue on a very uncomfortable train to [...]
Europe 3. roothub
day by day, train by train: the story of our European adventure. ODE TO ROOTHUB Our hostel had reached its incredibly low expectations with the sweet surprise of a (hopefully small) bedbug infestation. Well, when I say infestation, I mean that we found one creeping and crawling about just on Kaila's bed. Dampening the inclination to shift the [...]
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