#roadtrip

Foul-tasting hot water with laxative ambitions, rapidly declining sightseeing standards and two detours from Karlovy Vary — on the day Czechia set its all-time temperature record.By the time I finally made it to Karlovy Vary, I had already been to Czechia more times than I could easily count. Prague and Brno were familiar territory, and I had even

Sixty-one hours across Cyprus, with Aphrodite negotiations, Roman mosaics, a shipwreck, banana groves, impossible blues, suspicious greens and cocktails that appeared to have escaped from a laboratory. Middle age did not announce itself with a sports car, an inappropriate tattoo or the sudden conviction that I should learn electric guitar. It arr

A journey beyond the Hollywood myth, through inland Sicily and roads that made a battered town sign feel like a summit Table of contentsThrough the corn to SalemiAn Accidental Stop in SalemiAfter SalemiWhen the Road Fell ApartThe signThe town behind the nameHow a Parallel Authority Took RootThe Museum I Failed to EnterWhat remained Morning in Mar