How can you end up disliking one of the most efficient, clean, and developed countries in the world? That’s the question I am asking myself after re-visiting Singapore as a tourist, four years after I lived in the small island nation for my exchange semester. In August 2022, I moved out of my home country… Read More »Making peace with Singapore
Timor-Leste? What is that? If someone told you to take a map of the world and choose a country to travel to, I could bet a lot of money that your first choice wouldn’t be Timor Leste. In fact, if you went to a class full of university students and asked one by one if… Read More »Escaping Globalization in Timor-Leste
It was Summer 2025, I had just graduated from my Master’s and I wanted to do something big. I had fresh savings from my internship and the fellowship I was receiving to pay for my Master’s and I wanted to do something that I knew I was going to remember forever, but what exactly? For… Read More »The story of the Summer I did a full tour around the world
It’s my fourth time in Vienna’s Central Cemetery, but I’m feeling the excitement of the tourist who’s visiting a place for the first time. Back in 2022 —it really feels like ages from now— I came to Vienna for three days, and the cemetery was just another place in a long list of hallmarks which… Read More »The allure of Vienna’s Central Cemetery
The book “Petit Pays” by Gaël Faye was my (proper) introduction to Rwanda two years ago when I had to read it for my Contemporary African History class. Although the book speaks about the Genocide from the Burundian side, it is impossible to detach it from its Northern neighbor, which suffered the worst part of… Read More »A big fight for a small country
I hardly ever criticize a country I visit. I can find a couple exceptions such as Kuwait or the United Arab Emirates, but my poor experience in those countries had nothing to do with the people of the country but more with the way those nations are configured, where money is the only thing that… Read More »Sri Lanka? Not again, thank you
Less than ten years ago, San Salvador was known as the homicide capital of the world. With a rate of 103 murders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2015, the country was one of the most insecure in the world, hostage to gang wars and a public sector incapable of dealing with crime. Eight years later, in… Read More »El Salvador from the inside: the reality of Bukele-land
Descàrrec de responsabilitat: Aquest article narra la meva experiència personal en la Ruta Blava de la iniciativa Peace Line 2024. No és un article acadèmic ni pretén descriure els esdeveniments històrics del s. XX en els indrets que vam visitar. Les atrocitats comeses pels Nazis i els Soviètics a Europa formen part ara del passat.… Read More »A través dels països Bàltics meridionals: la Ruta Blava de Peace Line 2024
Shaped by tales of victories, but also defeats; by ventures, but also retreats; by leaders and heroes, but also deceits; European history is constantly being written, and the role of European youth in all this matrix is constantly evolving.
The Macaronesia is a geographical region that comprises some of the islands of the Atlantic off the shores of Africa and Europe. The Canary Islands, Madeira, the Azores…and Cabo Verde. Those who know me know that I am a big fan of the Canary Islands. Sweet weather and awesome hikes can never be a bad… Read More »Cape Verde: the reality beyond the resorts