The wrong desert
At age 24, I hit the road with two of my closest friends to travel and explore India. Naive, overly confident, wide-eyed and on a fresh-graduate/backpackers budget: we were the perfect cliche. I have always struggled with travelling purely for sightseeing and ‘witnessing’ cultures – I wanted to find a bit more purpose for this trip.
Learning to put myself first
So many years ago, I made plans to travel alone in Asia. I was very excited to do this and also a little bit nervous. I thought it was a challenge to plan and do everything by myself, but I really wanted to do this. And then came my wonderful friends and family, just being
Look out for one another
In August 2018, I went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for the first time – the biggest open-access theatre festival in the world. My love affair with theatre was still quite fresh, or let’s say I never really went to any sort of theatre festivals. In Berlin, I had started going to plays by myself,
A place where no traveller ever stops: the in-between
He stood in the doorway of the compartment in his police uniform, my passport in his hands. I smiled at the top of his stiff hat. He was taking a while and finally he looked up at me shaking his head. A cold sensation dropped into my stomach. Smile gone. Without really knowing what was