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  • Episode 1 – To Italy by ferry: Expectation VS Reality

    November 25th 2021 “I’m going on vacation in Italy. Alone. I am taking the ferry next Thursday” was the announcement I made to my family about a week ago. After finishing my summer job, being surrounded daily by hundreds of tourists with happy faces, flip-flops, suitcases, and the scent of sunscreen lingering in the air,…

  • Thessaloniki- Athens: 12am-5am

    I felt like a refugee yesterday in the train from Thessaloniki to Athens.  Entering the train station, I saw many refugees and immigrants queuing outside the ticket’s office. I didn’t know which direction I had to follow to reach my platform and I asked a guard standing a few meters away: “It’s on your right,…

  • Your home VS the world

    Your home Vs the world: such an unfair comparison, isn’t it? How is it possible to compare your hometown to thousands of places spread globally? Trust me. The answer is: “easily”. I left my hometown – Corfu – when I was 18 years old. That was when I moved to Athens to study. Then, I…

  • Horse Races: What brings you here?

    I paid and I went back to the bleachers to see the race. “It’s only 5 Euros”, I said to myself, feeling a bit guilty to actively participate in an event that doesn’t really express me and taking part in that gambling culture that I surely don’t support. However, even if I only bet such…

  • “Bristol: the perception, the feelings and the transitions of the city”

    It’s Sunday, March 4th 2023. The airplane lands in Bristol’s international airport around 11am and we immediately search for the bus that will take us to the city center and specifically to Broad Street, where our hotel is located. We don’t notice that the bus stop is just a few meters away and we follow…

  • Cafe Filo: A home away from home

    “We have discovered a Greek coffee shop in Dublin. Let’s go there”: that’s the message I receive from Ioanna, my Greek friend and ex colleague who now lives in Dublin with her boyfriend. A few hours before our flight to Edinburgh, a quick, Greek reunion is about to take place at cafe “Filo”, a small…