Home to mountains home to valleys Home to places and people that I haven’t seen in a long time Open arms, open hearts Home to rivers and lakes home to forests Home to markets and streets full of laughter and the familiar slang Friends, family Home to my younger self home to old habits Home…
Tag: South America
Things that can only happen to you in Cusco – or survival tips for Cusco, Peru
welcome to the world of Cusco You will get sunburnt despite a grey, cloudy sky and loads of sunscreen. Still: always, always put on sunscreen. Always, always bring your raincoat, even if there’s not a cloud in the sky. You’ll get rained on at some point, trust me (I got so used to carrying it…
Half a year
It’s been half a year since they announced the lockdown in Switzerland. Last Monday, exactly half a year after my return home, I started university. Half a year. Time flies. So much has happened. So much didn’t take place. It’s incredible how one’s life can change in the course of only half a year. If…
Back to “normal”
These past few weeks, Switzerland has been slowly finding its way back to “normality”. Restaurants are serving food again, museums and zoos have opened their doors and restrictions like the 5-people-rule have been eased. There are more cars and people in the streets again, reclaiming public spaces. Although this crisis isn’t bound to be over…
New year, new me
Happy New Year 2020! I can’t believe a new decade has begun. So many new possibilities, projects, plans… Still – new year, same me. Don’t worry, there haven’t been any crazy changes, apart from the ones that have happened gradually in the course of my travels (more about that later). However, I thought it might…
Walking in my parents’ footsteps
«Hace 24 años…» – South America ’95/’96 I grew up with the tales of my parents’ South America trip. Anecdotes, bedtime stories and photo albums full of memories. My dad telling every taxi driver on our Chile trip that he’d been there 22 years ago… The hammock they brought back from Ecuador, where I like to…
Raindrops and red rooftops
I can’t believe it’s been nearly a week already since I arrived in Cusco! The first glimpse I caught of the town was quite a stunning view from the plane: a sea of red roofs nestled in lush green mountains, spreading out and up. Our plane descended right into the city and landed at a…