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  • Road Trip in The Northern Spain, Part I

    By Julia Jakovleva | September 28, 2020

    In the pandemic world where the international travel was shattered, local travel has propelled. Although essential car camping items were purchased in advance, the dates of the trip to the Northern Spain were drafted in more or less within a week an a half of thinking. It was July, a month when nature was still…

  • Madrid Post-Quarantine: Life Outside

    By Julia Jakovleva | August 9, 2020

    The taste of freedom is tasted best when we realise what it means to have it limited. Nearly 3 months of pandemic raging in Spain people spent in confinement at their homes. With restrictions gradually lifted we were first allowed to leave homes for walks in the mornings between 6 am to 10 am and…

  • Morocco: Zen Of The Road Part II

    By Julia Jakovleva | January 27, 2020

    Road to Fes In the longer road to Fes the relief landscapes were changing to flat landscapes and vice versa with street sellers of pottery or pumpkins occasionally popping up in the middle of the way, a lot to contemplate in the road.   Counter-traffic in the road can be a mix of minivans or…

  • Morocco: A Step Out of The Comfort Zone Part I

    By Julia Jakovleva | December 27, 2019

    Tangier Sipping warm Moroccan mint tea at the random terrace in the coastal district of Tangier, we were wondering what surprises Morocco road prepared for us. Two days of getting familiar with the northern city of the country before heading into its depth was enough to understand it would be nowhere near a cozy European…

  • Wandering Around Madrid

    By Julia Jakovleva | August 27, 2019

    Like grown-up kids, mature and blooming, they rebelliously turn away. Parks inside Madrid are not the only places begging for escape and surroundings of Madrid have a plenty to offer. Each of these places is beautiful in its own season and some are always great. 1. Segovia North-west from Madrid. Before I moved to Spain,…

  • Dreamer’s Tales of Madrid

    By Julia Jakovleva | July 25, 2019

    They, who went after the industrial progress and were overwhelmed by that, are now trying to follow the call of the wild. They are us. All my life I lived in the smaller city of Tallinn where life was moving at slower pace and shorter distances. And when ending up in Madrid, I felt like…