Between imaginary rides and unheard walls
I have decided to take my bike for a Sunday lockdown adventure toward central London. Determined, I begin studying a digital map to see where to I could venture to ride. Through Victoria Park I arrive in Hackney and there is Old street. I wonder on the roundabout for a while, drawing hypnotic circles on […]
Outside the Map, Inside the Hearts (Part 2) – A Traveller’s Journal
After exploring Plataforma community, the second part of the Welcome Tour took us to Itapagipe peninsula, a not far area of north-western suburban Salvador, known as Alagados. Uruguai welcomes us with a warm hug in the midst of where there was once a landfill. Smiles surround us as we stepped down from the van in […]
Outside the Map, Inside the Hearts (Part 1) – A Traveller’s Journal
On a tropical day in March 2018, I was invited to a Welcome Tour. It was organised for the attendees of the II Global Sustainable Tourism Forum, the international Community-Based Tourism event we have organised during the World Social Forum in Salvador, that year. That was a treat for us, before the event -and the […]