Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Our step into one of the world’s darkest side of humanity: Auschwitz, Poland…
While we were in Kraków, we couldn’t NOT go to Auschwitz; we owed it to the victims of the nazism and we owed it to the future generations. I dreaded this day a lot as I still remembered the pain and the fear I felt while I was discovering the horrors that happened in Struthof,…
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Once upon a time in Kraków, Poland
I had barely stepped out of the train that I knew that I would love Krakow. Except for the weather… WTF Krakow? How dare you welcome me with a cold wintery wind, a grey sky and some unnecessary drizzle? Krakow, I was not impressed! However, the train ride from the airport was perfect: on time,…
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An Eastern European aventure? Yes, please!
I met Heidi, my Alaskan sweetheart, years and years ago… we became friends, we became sisters from another mister and we became traveling partners in crime. Our long-distance friendship was made stronger over the years by our love of sacarsm, outdoor, traveling and our aversion of hugs. Ever since we met, we have tried to…
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The end of a 6-month adventure…
… I was going to include my journey to go home in my previous post but it turned out to be such an adventure, it deserved a story of its own. After 6 months of intense (sometimes borderline insane) adventures through Latin America and Indonesia, you would think that we finally had enough. That we…
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Togean islands: the wonderful place where I realized that I love snorkeling and that I’m ready to take my relationship with the ocean to the next level and (one day) learn diving…
Fact: up until a month ago, we had never heard of the Togean islands; But to be fair who has? Unless you specifically speak about (overcrowded) Bali, Java or Sumatra, Indonesia (for most people) seemed to be a mystery. Indo-what? Bali? Ah! But no complaint here: no better feeling than to actually visit countries that haven’t…
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Central Sulawesi: Tentena or our lovely stopover while trying to reach Ampana!
Leaving death behind was a relief and we were really looking forward to discovering Tentena in Central Sulawesi. We jumped on the only bus to Tentena for what became the longest bus ride we have had in a long time. A few pukers, a meeting with a funnice Franco-irish couple, 318 kilometers and 14 hours later, we…
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Tana Toraja or how we spent two enjoyable days with death
“It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens” – Woody Allen. Death can be scary, death can be a relief, death can be sad, death can be sudden but I never experienced it as being the main focus of somebody’s life. When we landed in Makassar…
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One, two, three little lakes: welcome to Kelimutu
5 hours to drive 50 km (yes, we did say that everything takes longer on Flores but really?!) turned an easy journey into an unnecessary dragging trip… Starting at stupid o’clock, I am known anyway for loving those ridiculous early starts, we reached Moni 10 hours later. We had to wait two hours for a…
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Riung or the forgotten paradise of Flores!
Riung or not Riung? This was the question… M and I discussed a lot about it as it was clearly out of our way. It looked amazing on google and we were keen to check it out. However since it was located up north, it would have cost us three precious days of our time…
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Meet and greet: the fierce Komodo dragons
It sure took me a while (they do say that you are what you eat and I eat snails so…) but I can say that I have finally fulfilled a lifelong dream of mine: I hiked on Rinca Island among the Komodo dragons! Spielberg would have been proud of me, I thought while taking zillions…
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