Looking for
No Trails

My Wandering

CONVERSATIONS (TUNISIA)

Tuesday, 2 January 2024

There are several tables at the cafe filling a wide sidewalk, but most chairs are set in groups of two or three facing the street, without a table. Some people sit and talk in mild voices, despite the noisy street where motorcycles, trailers and cabs create a constant humdrum, where a man by a truck filled with oranges calls for customers. Others, even though they have company, simply sit and look in the distance, a small glass of thé à la menthe in hand, while the cafe attendant busies himself to bring a new glass upon a mere look or small gesture one makes. Conversation here does not need a proper environment, context to occur or carry on. And, one might argue, neither does life.

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For pictures from my trip, click on the link below.

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BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE (RWANDA, UGANDA, BURUNDI)

Wednesday, 13 December 2023

A line of people moves up and down plying the road. Ladies in colourful outfits with their babies wrapped up on their backs while also carrying baskets on their heads. Men pushing bicycles under enormous loads of potatoes, beans or plantains. Children coming from school. People going to field works. All of them walking on and on for miles on end, their skin glittering in the harsh sun or in the pouring rain. A line of beautiful people that has kept on going on for centuries despite - or rather alongside - hardships.

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For pictures from my trip, click on the respective links below, according to the country.

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My travel
shots

These are just some of the pictures I shot and liked while traveling.

Future plans

Past experiences always generate new prospects. Sometimes it is enough to hear a word someone says to get going, while at other times one year’s planning goes by before things start moving. It has often happened to me that, while researching for a certain trip or reading others’ experience in a particular place, I felt I was already there, sipping that chai or letting myself be taken away by the human flow in the bazaar. Here are some of my current plans.

My notes

I have meant this website as a presentation of my experience while traveling to various places. I have never assumed it is perfect, fair, fine or good-looking. If you fully like it and the stories here, there must be something wrong with you. If you resent it or have comments to make about it, then you have a stand. Therefore, do let me know about your opinion and thoughts. “Life’s a fight, therefore do fight, with love for it, with lust”, as one once greatly said. You can drop me one, two or more lines at alex@ this domain name.info.