Project three: Dour mon amour

Belgium. Another roller coaster. This post is going to be LONG, so bear with me. The general itinerary was 10 leg days in a row with pretty buildings and horses of Bruges, followed by cleaning up acres of addicts' campsites at Dour Music Festival. In Bruges I started with an all-nighter in Brussels, wandering the …

Project two: working traveler in Italy

Been postponing and rewriting this for months now. Pull yourself together, mate. Italy was...interesting. I feel like I managed to step on a rollercoaster and as it started moving I realized that I got on the wrong one and am also afraid of heights and then found out that the tracks were being built during …

Sleep paralysis & exploding head syndrome

I have never had a great relationship with sleep. It would take me at least half an hour (in some cases many hours) just to fall asleep when I was a kid. To this day I am unable to take naps during daytime and I have somehow gotten used to sleeping around six hours per …

Project one: IBG volunteer workcamp in Aach, Germany

In the beginning of 2017 I felt like I needed a break from my Master's studies to make sure I am on the right path and see what opportunities the world has to offer. I found an organization (EstYes) that sends young people from my country to all kinds of volunteer projects and it immediately got …