St Michael Fair: The biggest and most traditional pilgrimage of central Poland. Last Autumn (video just published)
Wielki odpust św. Michała Studzianna (Poświętne, Poland) 2025 - Procession, Folk Music, Fair
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From Tarantella to Oberek. New Year(Capodanno) 2025/2026 danced in Calabria and Poland
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Please enjoy with me the fleeting moment of autumn morning frost - which is born in the night, lives in eternal mist, and dies in instant once brushed by the first direct sun ray.
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Someone dear to me got lost in the mountain. When night came, exhausted, with no food or water, he lay down to sleep on a rock. I could have helped, but decided not to. He was sixteen.
#travel #parenting
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Ballo del Cuccio - Calabria.
Ballo del Ciuccio: Spectacular Fireworks Ritual of Calabria, Southern Italy
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My new story on Decadent Catania, Empty Crete and how mass tourism creates hidden worlds:
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I witnessed this energetic song on the street in a village up Calabrian mountain, south Italy.
Pe’na fimmina non si muore - in galera non si va
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One of the most beautiful and captivating moments I recorded this year. The Sephardic ballad Tres Hermanitas in Ladino, by damarama, an Italian trio. Calabria, a few weeks back.
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This alien transmitter built with ancient technology has been sending signals to space, spying on humans for millennia. And no one noticed until I found him today.
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Crete, Greece. Old tree trunk very high up the mountain. And the “teeth” are cocoons of wild wasps, I think.
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Two young brothers from countryside play „ober”. This recording of mine comes from 3 weeks ago (same evening that was featured in my latest susbtack story). In central Poland, teenagers playing traditional music is extremely rare - this skill is virtually forgotten and unknown.
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Wiwat - traditional dance from Wielkopolska, in modern setup. On command, couples start spinning. It is not uncommon to see your partner stolen by another dancer, so you get to dance with someone else.
Played by my friends Kapela Niwińskich, a few days ago. Recorded by myself
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Kujawiak, Polish traditional dance. Yesterday. youtu.be/o2WSw9EPznY?...
If you went to classes and think you can dance, have a look here - Casamance, Senegal. Those girls have never been to any west african dance class: neighbors who invited me to a party. friends order from the same tailor so they match.
village party in Casamance
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The disappearing hitchhiking culture is so different from Blablacar. The former is about act of kindness. The later is the unfortunate “sharing economy”, intended to monetize these acts of kindness. Blablacar, together with Airbnb, killed the most beautiful part of travel: the unexpected.
Forró Diois 2023 farewell party
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village party in Casamance
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What your French teacher should have told you, but didn’t, about The Art of Introducing Yourself in France. What your French teacher should have told you, but didn’t, about The Art of Introducing Yourself in France.
#france #fauxpas #travel #socialnorms
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Montevergine, Campania, south Italy. During the biannual, ancient pilgrimage to shrine of Mamma Schiavona, the energy of dancers, singers and tammorra players reaches climax. Watch.
'A juta a Montevergine: tammorra and dance, Ospedaletto d'Alpinolo #festival #italy
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Fanfare Tractopelle at Fête de la Soupe, Lille, May 2025
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Hunger was so severe that people ate their clothes and even the earth. Then a miracle came. A ship carrying enormous quantities of corn run aground near the island. Ship’s name was John. #capeverde #travel #history #famine #africa
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Performance of #Tunas , the music ensembles of Portuguese university student fraternities that date to middle ages. Festival Internacional de Tunas – El Açor, Ponta Delgada 2025
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I walked across Maio, a tiny West African island no one knows about.
#travel #slowtravel #naturehike
I recorded this ad-hoc performance in Ponta Delgada, Azores. This is Tuna, a music band of Praxe, a student fraternity of a portuguese university (I think Coimbra). Allegedly, J.K. Rowling was inspires by their dresses which is why it feels like Harry Potter.
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I lived Little Prince’s life on small, potatoe-shaped asteroid. Or island.
“Maybe there is no outside? Maybe we are the only island? Are there really countries out there, with presidents? Sounds like an absurd type of job. “
#travel #africa #slowtravel #immersivetravel #lowimpacttravel
First prehistoric animal has been brought back to life. This is historic: Maybe we can create snapshot of the existing biodiversity before it vanishes, and recreate it in the future, when humans learn to be more humble and rational. #genetics #colossalbiosciences #jurassicpark
#direwolf
