Does anyone know? Does it still happen for people to buy fake trade mark products from a car’s trunk? I have lived that only once, a lot of years ago, when I…
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TIBET (4/5) – on yak back to the Everest…
Holy Mother of God! Not even in my worst nightmares have I went to the place I am going to today: one of the most important sacred lakes in Tibet, that is…
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The lavender fields – “naphthalene” in its beautiful form…
To me, the small pouches with a smelling powder from the wardrobes of my childhood or the modern liquid version of the lavender solution are simple naphthalene. Bleah! Yeah, I know there…
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TIBET (3/5) – the spectacle of the monks
I know about Buddhism as much as any normal person who has not studied the history of religions… So I go full of enthusiasm towards two of the most important monasteries in…
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Romania’s Got Talent – Paris subway edition…
I am in the Parisian subway. At the Louvre Rivoli station a guy who’s about 45 gets in and he begins singing, with the help of a small amplifier he holds on…
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August 23 – all socks and no microbes
You have definitely not been able to ditch the famous August 23 parades, if during the ’80s you were hawk, a pioneer, a young communist or an employed worker. After being 5…
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TOBLERONE – a passion born out of frustration…
Judging by the quantities of Toblerone that I bought (and especially ate!), I should have a statue in front of the company headquarters. J The story between me and Toblerone started many…
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Exactly 20 years from the total solar eclipse
A super-event, super-promoted in the mass-media 20 years ago: the total solar eclipse. Plunged into darkness for a little more than two minutes… To be in the very center of the event,…
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I will either die because of lack of oxygen or because I ask too many questions… Which one?…
Let me start with Dalai Lama… A tabu subject in Tibet! There are no photos of any Dalai Lama. There is one exception, a photo in a monastery with the 13th one.…