A travelogue on sound, music and inevitable associations
Whilst corona increasingly limits our travel possibilities, we opt for a two week trip to France. We leave without a clear destination and quickly get in the mood, traveling through the Belgian Ardennes. Belgium is such a tiny country that it doesn’t require much effort to find yourself abroad. For a Belgian living in Flanders, […]
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We find ourselves between lovely meadows crowded with cows in the lowlands near Chobi in Georgia. Preparing for sunset, dozens of frogs croak at their loudest. I wonder if the difference between their bass or treble sounds corresponds linearly to the size of their body, as is more or less the case with acoustic musical […]
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The video below was made in 2015 on our last trip with the old Iveco 40.10WM. In the years before, on several occasions, we explored Andalucia including its most remote areas. This particular excursion was really off the beaten track. Yes, in Europe! Shortly after this ritual jaunt, we were happy to sell the vehicle […]
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We just crossed the border from Azerbaijan into Dagestan, the most southern and one of the most infamous autonomous Russian republics. Together with Ossetia, Chechnya and a bunch of even more tiny, would-be independent states in its neighborhood, hopefully Dagestan won’t live up to its reputation of ethnic instability, terrorist attacks or kidnapping while we […]
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Corona is traveling the world. I don’t like this kind of mass tourism. It’s far too intrusive and impolite. It doesn’t respect the traveler’s duty to leave behind no trace nor damage at the places you visit and naught but positive memories for the people you meet. This virus is flitting around too fast and […]
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Arriving at Igoumenitsa is always fun. The town isn’t much more than a strip along the coast. Everything seems tuned in to the daily ferries arriving and leaving, mostly loaded with trucks and just a handful of adventurous campers eager to explore the Greek mainland, some of which are on their way further east. A […]
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Thracia is a special place. In Late Antiquity it was divided into four provinces, one of which was called Europa. From the perspective of Mesopotamians, in the old Akkadian language, Erebu means sunset. The land east of Mesopotamia they called Asu, sunrise. It’s just one of the theories about the origins of Europe’s and Asia’s […]
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