Chengdu has earned a reputation as China’s capital of slow living, hedonism, and playful charm. After a week in Chongqing we hopped on a train and arrived one late evening in Chengdu. The short two hour trip was a delight, as the sun was setting between vast hillsides full of rich green fauna.
What I loved about Chengdu was: Continue Reading…
Just by looking at my Instagram algorithm, seems everyone is in China this year. My algo must be full of China interest posts because I’ve built it brick by brick since January. Decided to go to China based solely on one viral reel from Shenzen. In the end, the luck of the draw led us not to Shenzen, but to Chongqing and then to Chengdu.
I was giddy and happy to see #thecyberpunkcity. Continue Reading…
It’s the subtlety of being a fashionable #goth. Not full on addicted to the aesthetic, but just enough to identify as one. I’m all about subtle nods and wearing lots of black. Nods to goth accessories, but also everything designer, in black of course. Continue Reading…
I’ve been quiet. Winter had me cocooned up, resisting the very cold, the snow, the futility of it all. Now that almost Spring is here, I feel a bit elated. I can muster to drag my very white skin to see some sunlight, when I can get it. And muster the will to dawn a cute outfit too. Continue Reading…
Flying straight to Warsaw from Budapest in December, at night, clear skies, winter cold, a sort of familiarity was sensed as we were waiting for the public transport to get us to our AirBnb. Coming from the Communist Block ourselves, we did actually expect familiarity. However, we did not expect a rather huge city full of sky scrappers that rise out of that familiarity of Communist blocks. Because Warsaw is a modern, quite exquisite city, that rises out of that Communist reality. A marvelous surprise. A marvelous city.
The sound of my childhood: crows crowing in every park and over every building, come early Winter. The sights of my childhood: playing with the many, many fallen leaves in the park I grew up in. I used to hate November, being a child of Summer. November was that useless month that stood in the way of festive December. Continue Reading…
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