Wiener Kaffee at the Spanische Reitschule (Austria)

Don’t ever believe to speak German is a good enough passport to stay in Austria. I knew that so well, that I needed about 48 hours to gather all my memories around the few Austrian I knew and some spare literature works in order to quickly adapt behaviour and manners to who I called the gendarm’s [...]

Blood stains on the veil of the pearl of Orient – Istanbul (Turkey 2)

We had already a long number of days on highways and main roads behind us, we were approaching Istanbul, and from far, we could already see the dusty shadow of some huge town, when I asked to the group to fill the water bottles with water, as it was hot, and there was a lot [...]

The stronghold – Taurus (Turkey 6)

Conchi said she would have to ask many questions in order to be properly informed on the whole and have thus referential points concerning my own vision of things. We were taking a sharp way south. As we were arriving to the second mountain chain, the Taurus, we would have to leave the side roads [...]

Burning walls (Cyprus 2)

We had taken a boat and had arrived to Cyprus. Then we went had gone walking to Lefkosa, the capital, cut in two. We went to the border and went through the grey zone. To our right a school building and the border control to our left and the border police told us not to [...]