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As you know we travelled with Inma (Hector’s sister) and two very good friends of ours, Mari and Juan Carlos, around Turkey for our first 10 days in that country during last August. Before they left we all agree it would be great to have them, for a change, writing about our adventures together. A [...]

We walk in pairs. Yolka walks ahead besides Hector talking animatedly and Maciej and I imitate them just four steps behind.
He’s telling me about his life in Poland, is an artist, sculptor. But now he’s into interior design because sculpture doesn’t make for a living.
He also does street performances. He tells me he did one [...]

The last two weeks Earthconnection has been really busy in the classrooms of life’s university, learning a very special lesson: hospitality.
Our idea of hospitality and more importantly, our practice of it, has resulted to be dramatically different to Turkish hospitality and in general, (in a worse sense) to what we’ve found in our wanderings. So [...]

“There is no order nor concert. Life is chaos. Chaos” I write on my diary with irritation.
My ebook has just got broken. I feel my heart heavy. The memory of the last time I felt it like this comes to my mind. It was in Prague. We have asked an Asian girl to take a [...]

“This is the best watermelon I’ve ever had” I say to Ibrahim in front of me thinking to myself that I’ve said the same words many times before since I arrived in Turkey.
With a sad smile on his face, he tells me that fruits and vegetables are not like the ones in the past. [...]