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The 29 of May 2019 I got on a train at the Kazan railway station at around 2 p.m. I was about to adventure on a trip of 14 hours that would have covered a distance of 1000 km. The next stop on the trans - Siberian railway trip was the city of Yekaterinburg, the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District....

Life in Kazan, like in many other cities around the world, revolves around a fortification, a walled city. In this part of the world they use the term kremlin, which means indeed "fortification" in slave language, and which is commonly associated with the Russian state. In reality, the kremlin is a historical feature of many Russian cities, a heritage of a past in which war was often behind the door, there was no such a thing as deterrence and defence was more important than offence....

How many people have you heard dreaming about adventuring through the Transiberian railway, but they never did at the end? A lot, personally. This was a huge thing from many generations of the past. From the '60s thought the '90s. It still remains a dream for millions of people, even though the most popular railway in the world has lost some of its appeal in recent years....

From Rome to Asia without flying - Moscow, the holy city

What we talk about, when we talk about Russia? It's not easy these days, let's make that clear first. Many people have been forced to wrongly associate the history, tradition, culture of a complex yet unbelievable country with the current state of politic or a powerful, controversial figure as Vladimir Putin. That's unfortunate. I feel that, as a person who was lucky enough to traverse its vastness, diversity, richness....

I don't know about yourself, but I often have the feeling that this thing that we call life is just a dream. It's an old, recurring theme in literature and in neuroscience today, as the way we perceive reality can be described as a "controlled hallucination". We don't see things as they are, but as we are. Which means that our mind is constantly creating a vision before our eyes....

I got on the bus at the Autobussijaam on 46 Lasted str. at 6:35 a.m. It would have been a trip of about eight hours, one of the longest made via bus on this journey to Asia. I remember all these women, with their faces marked by age and fatigue, boarding the bus with plastic bags full of clothes. It had become a recurring scene while travelling Eastern Europe....

Writing about this journey not only allows me to revive something unique, a memory that would be regrettably lost.

And if you don't know now you know🍍🎨🚀😚

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