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Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna
You might not know it yet but I have an amazing friend in Vienna. She is incredibly fabulous and smart (and has a doctorate to prove it!), has a great personality, and shares my love of London and...
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Once in a blue moon in Vienna
The English expression “once in a blue moon” refers to an event that occurs very rarely. But how rarely, depends on your definition… Some would call it a rare event when two long-time friends go out on...
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Last day in Vienna
For me, almost every summer starts with a firm resolution to find a new favourite flavour of ice-cream, befriend someone with a pool, and dance under a warm rain. Then almost every summer ends with an...
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Baku: Old Friends, Old City
Baku, my hometown, is named the City of Winds — the name derives from the ancient Persian name of Badkube which literally means “pounding winds.” Two winds are common to Baku: the gentle southern...
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All about Shakespeare
There are many traditions I adopted since calling England my second home eight years ago. One of these is my habit of rarely working on a Sunday. Rain or shine, I buy an issue of The Sunday Times — on...
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Enchanted Forests of Devon
Amidst the ancient woodland of Devon — another English county — many weird and wonderful creatures reside: boggarts, fairies, and lots and lots of pixies. Pixies are my favourite! Wikipedia says that...
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Boxing Day 2015
Days after Christmas is the time we all make New Year’s resolutions. Exercise more, read more, focus better. We strive to add many extra things to our schedule, often forgetting that we are already...
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Singapore Zoo
I love animals but I have always hated zoos. I hated them from afar — up until last January, I had never visited a zoo in my life. To me, they were the embodiment of our anthropocentric society where...
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Singapore Sky Park
Small, safe, and cosmopolitan, Singapore makes travel very easy. I came to Singapore after spending Christmas and nearly 10 days in the jungle of Thailand. I was ran down by some weird flu and tired of...
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Singapore Botanical Gardens
Happy Friday, my dear readers! Have you got anything exciting planned for tonight? Perhaps you’re still hibernating in your pyjamas? Well, whatever you had planned for today, now you have an option of...
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Stockholm: white dress and black grave
A stranger is travelling through a new town and walks into a cemetery. Wandering among graves, he notices a bizarre pattern: one grave says 1982-1988, the other — 2001-2004, third — 2005-2007. It...
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Stockholm: Karlsson-on-the-Roof
When I was little, Astrid Lindgren was my favourite author. She wrote about childhood mischief, life full of wonder, magical people and things, and, of course, Stockholm. Pippi Longstocking, Emil in...
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Stockholm: archipelago
As I am closing another chapter of my life, I am thinking about experiences I am leaving behind and what I can expect in the future. Blame it on the spring but here I am with my random bouts of...
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California: Point Lobos
Nostalgia: a delicate but very acute feeling of wanting to be taken back to a year or two of my old life when every challenge seemed unsurmountable yet all my experiences were more raw, more...
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California: Lovers Point
At Lovers Point, my heart sings its own symphony: a song once not full of melancholy but instead a happy, cheerful tune. The tune that combines the joy of seeing so many seals and sea otters up close...
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