I had come for two days. I stayed for three weeks. I discovered what is called slow travel by accident, on a street in Naples, in front of a bodega door opening with the scent of fresh limoncello, with a missed flight ticket in hand. In that moment, I understood that there is a big difference…
Digital detox was a concept that made me chuckle the first time I heard it. It sounded like "paying money to put down your phone and go into the woods." Then last summer, on a mountain, I saw a man with nothing in his hands. He was simply sitting and looking. He had an expression…
Walking through the corridor of an abandoned school in Chernobyl, faded children's drawings on the walls, broken toys on the floor, cold light filtering through the windows, the first thought that crossed my mind was: I shouldn't be here. And immediately after: But here I am. Dark tourism lives in exactly that space between those…
