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In place of socks
Tuesday 28 July 2015
Down with communism, so Poznan „alfa” in the IKEA version
Monday 3 November 2014
Inshallah buses and other means of transport
A bike, tooth, and Sabaka
Thursday 25 September 2014
Memory.
When people come back in their minds to the places
they visited, they usually find only a nice vestige, the recollection of
happiness. A drink with a palm, a delicious kebab from Latakia in this street,
the third right from the market and then 20 meters left from the man with an
ice cream. These thought vestiges, the idea of the world which was, or is
sometimes the escape from boredom, daily life, are the mental fuel providing us
with energy every day. At least usually. Because sometimes, although seldom, if
one is fortunate enough, they become the only testimony of the existence of
certain places, cities, and people who aren’t with us anymore and the destiny
of whom no one can guess.
Unfortunately, it happened with our memories from
Syria. A coincidence, or maybe my own technological underdevelopment at that
time, made me write e-mails from this country. I wanted to provide them with a
commentary, compare them with the current situation, but I don’t have
appropriate words. Because I don’t understand it.
So I would like to present you with my e-mails in an
original form, only a bit shorter and in English.
Thursday 11 September 2014
Poverty.
When people arrive at one of the poorest countries in
the world, they try to prepare for it somehow. They imagine hundreds of beggars
in the streets, hungry children with large stomachs, who make a desperate
attempt to reverse the unfortunate destiny by reaching out hands to newcomers
from the West. People start even to consider the moral aspect of their decision
on travelling to this particular corner of the world, where the enormity of
hopelessness seems to have no end.
In place of socks – we set off!
Dear readers,
we have decided to create this blog in order to share
with you our joy of travelling. This joy is sometimes, paradoxically, difficult
or even depressing, but still fascinating.
However, this is not going to be a classical journal,
the catalogue of interesting places to visit, or the monument of vanity*. We would
like to invite you to sit with us at the bank of Hoi An channel and discuss
modern economics.
Come with us and smoke shisha with half-Dutchman,
half-Bedouin, who talks to his friend about religion. Feel like conquistadors
while watching birds in the neighbourhood of the Devil’s Throat located close
to the border between Argentina and Brazil, considering at the same time the
system of these famous missions.
Or, if we are lucky enough in the following
days, see with us life in Burma through Orwell’s eyes. So, we don’t offer you
the journey in the interior of unknown lands, but inside yourselves. In
literature, art, beauty.
We offer you reflections “in place of socks”.
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