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Travelling Light on the Azores
On the emerald islands of the Azores you can retreat into a unique, isolated world. You can relax in hot springs (even in the ocean),...
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Compartment No. 6
Our expectations concerning other people, trips, or life in general cause disappointments all too often, as we see in the film...
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Under the Tender Stars of Cuba
It is a warm night in December when I climb up the wide, paved stairs on to the famous terrace of the Casa de la Música in Trinidad,...
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In the Palm of a Monster
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy is being praised everywhere. One reason for the success is certainly the fact that even if the novels...
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On an Escape from Oneself
Supporters of slow travel often have a desire to combine being on the road and working. However, few are able to sustainably combine work...
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Ignorance is Bliss?
The background of the economic crash that began in the United States in 2008 is revealed to the common reader in the book Swimming with...
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Freeing Oneself from Depression
The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness is a self-help book written by a well-known and recognized...
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On the Borderline between Good and Evil
Ann Heberlein’s book on evil sheds light on an eternal problem that is smouldering in our time as well: how people start to nest in their...
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A small step in nature, a big step in the human mind
Does guilt weigh you when you stay awake late or have a feast? Does it feel hard to go to a sweaty workout to the gym? Many people work...
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Atonement
The British author Ian McEwan is able to describe moments, moods and psychological relationships with magical precision. Even very young...
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How to live without money?
As an old-school citizen, I might not myself be able to live for several years as a vagabond and, well, a bit like a bum. But it’s not...
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To Write or Not to Write - That is the question
People are constantly hungry for fresh communication. It is about freedom of speech: the right to receive meaningful communication to...
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Free Money for All?
If you’re tired of hearing that social inequality is just a necessary consequence of the laws of economy at work, you can regain your...
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To the Depths and Back
In the video below, Eleanor Longden describes her experiences from a heavy journey to the depths of her mind and back to a functional...
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The Remains of the Day
Stevens, the venerable butler of an English stately home, goes through his life during a summer road trip in 1956, a story told in Kazuo...
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Paper Waste Bag
Even the slightest good deed can change the world when enough many people do it. If you want to avoid plastic waste bags, you can make...
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The Silence of the Sea
A civilized German officer, an admirer of high culture and a composer of classical music, stays in a house in occupied France. The master...
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Broken Dreams, New Beginnings
When Tahera Qasemi’s father died in a Taliban bombing at Kabul City Hall in the second half of the 1990s, it sealed the fate of Tahera...
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Traveller of the Century
A mysterious traveller arrives in Wandernburg, a vaguely placed town somewhere in the area of present Germany in the early 19th century. ...
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The Idle Traveller
Dan Kieran's guidebook for slow travellers made me experience again the dizziness I used to feel before my Interrail trips when I was...
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