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Kapalai - a paradise island on stilts, with a coral reef at your fingertips - my travels around Borneo

11 Feb 2022 5 minute read 2 comments marianomariano68 $0.15

Kapalai Island Wyspa Kapalai Kapalai islet belonging to Borneo in the state of Sabah, until about 200 years ago, was a beautiful paradise island bustling with life off the coast of Borneo. Today it is a small sandbank with a large private facil...

Caricature Sculptures (Federation Square, Canberra: AUSTRALIA)

10 Feb 2022 2 minute read 3 comments bengy $0.10

  I love my political cartoons... well, the ones of the Australian variety at least! In my newspaper reading days as a university student, I would eagerly devour the paper... but the political cartooning section would always be one of my favourite...

"Those who are looking for paradise on earth must come to Dubrovnik" - Bernard Shaw

9 Feb 2022 3 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68 $0.12

Dubrovnik is the pearl of the Adriatic and is said to be the most beautiful city in Croatia, as the eminent playwright and essayist, Nobel Prize winner Bernard Shaw wrote. Dubrownik to perła Adriatyku i podobno najpiękniejsze miasto w Chorwacji, j...

In search of Puffins - Faroe Islands - Mykines

8 Feb 2022 4 minute read 2 comments marianomariano68 $0.08

Mykines Island belongs to the Faroe Islands located in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean on the Gulf Stream route. It is roughly halfway between Norway and Iceland. Wyspa Mykines należy do Wysp Owczych położonych w północnej części Oceanu At...

Here… Nights & Darkness Are Blessing After All!

8 Feb 2022 1 minute read 4 comments Melina Mehr $0.13

People say that one should take refuge from darkness to light, but I run from light to darkness, because I want to see nothing. In cold moments of despair, I turn to you my gorgeous darkness, holding endless colorful pearls that have taken over your...

Countryside hiking - A freezing walk in the trees

6 Feb 2022 1 minute read 4 comments lemming $0.09

 In December 2021 I was asked to make a survey in a place called "Riserva Naturale Cassa di espansione del fiume Secchia". It is an area located on the border between the provinces of Modena and Reggio Emilia that was formerly the site of numerous qu...

Tel Aviv Street Art: Florentine Neighborhood

5 Feb 2022 1 minute read 4 comments b_eleven $0.06

I got a chance to walk through the Florentine neighborhood of Tel Aviv. There, street art or graffiti, is a way of life and expression. In some areas where buildings are scheduled for future demolition, the city even allows the street art. (To be fai...

Tyska Kyrkan (Old German Church): Stockholm, SWEDEN

5 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments bengy $0.03

  This is a nice memory from the middle of the 2021 Corona time. During this time, most of the concerts across Europe were pretty uncertain... most of the large scale ones were being cancelled left, right and centre. Even many of the small ones we...

Chernobyl and Pripyat (Прип'ять), a ghost town

5 Feb 2022 4 minute read 1 comment marianomariano68 $0.12

Pripyat is the so-called "nuclear power plant" - this is the name of the cities in Russia where the majority of residents work in the nuclear power industry. The "atom city" was built during the Soviet Union and was the 9th "atom city" in present-d...

Review of The Legend of the Monk and the Merchant

4 Feb 2022 3 minute read 1 comment powersjo $0.03

The Legend of the Monk and the Merchant is written by Terry Felber and this version of the book has a foreword by Dave Ramsey. The book is a short, fictional story portrayed as a grandfather tells his grandson about his life as a merchant. The grandf...