Trying to predict the future is never an easy task, and there have been countless outlandish predictions that now seem laughable or even completely insane. Some time ago, I found an old Italian magazine buried under a lot of other stuff in my room, with a title that immediately caught my eye: “Futuro” (Future), and…
The next destination of my journey was Warsaw. There are trains that run between Vilnius and the Polish capital, but only on Saturday and Sunday, and I had to travel on a Friday, so instead I took a bus, as this time too I could use a discount thanks to the Interrail pass. The trip…
The two-and-a-half-hour journey between Helsinki and Tallinn was in the evening and it was too dark to enjoy the scenery, I arrived in Estonia after 11 p.m.. The central position of the hostel in Tallinn might have been the only good thing about it, as it was crowded, with no lockers, and even lacking a…
When you think about Western colonialism, the large British, French, or Spanish empires are probably the first ones that come to your mind, but during the the so-called Age of Discovery many European states established or tried to establish colonies around the world. One of the smaller and less known of these states was the…
I left Copenhagen and, after changing trains in Gothenburg, I arrived in Oslo at around 6 p.m.. During the trip, I had some great views on the Nordic countryside and coast, with many beautiful mountains and forests. My hostel in Oslo was the one I paid the most for per night, even though it was…
Next, I was heading north toward Denmark, but the journey did not start well. For this trip I had to book a reservation so I had an assigned seat, but the numbers of the coaches were all wrong, which caused at least twenty minutes of confusion among the passengers, me included, who could not find…
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our Solar System, and it is one of the most studied celestial bodies. Observed since ancient times, it was the target of some of the earliest space exploration missions in the 1960s, and it has been reached by several uncrewed spacecrafts ever since. Today, thanks to…
Leaving Frankfurt was hard. After everything that happened in the previous two days, I was really sad that I had to already leave this city. A piece of my heart will stay in Frankfurt forever. However, it was time to move on to the next destination, Hamburg. Until that moment, the trip didn’t really feel…
I left Murg in the morning and, after changing trains in Ziegelbrücke and Zurich, I arrived in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. To reach the hostel I took the metro, which in this case was included in my Interrail pass, and I walked a bit more to Sachsenhausen, the neighborhood south of the old town across…
There is a wide range of different writing systems all around the world, but a large majority of them share one common ancestor: the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. From the Latin alphabet to the Arabic script, from Ethiopian characters to Mongolian writing, and probably even the South Asian systems, they all derive from the hieroglyphs used…