Before I go to a new city, I wonder, what is it going to be like? And all the photos you look at usually portray touristic monuments, not showing the real life, street where people live, side streets where you will turn after a nice dinner just to get lost, […]
Not long ago Calvert Journal wrote about how this “post-Soviet aesthetic” trend became popular among mainstream brands and gave a ticket to international fashion scene to such brands as Gosha Rubchinsky and Demna Gvasalia. Simultaneously enticing and repulsive for many Russians and Ukrainians who lived through the times, they intrigue foreigners and […]
Back in Russia we used to have this association that everything coming from the USA is just so cool and hard to get (pre-perestroika: jeans, coca-cola, records). At some point post-perestroika, everyone who could – would go shopping to States for the crazy sales, for the big malls, for Gap, […]
Coming back from Mykonos that I have visited around 6 times since I was a child, I wanted to write about our search for those still pristine bays, small traditional restaurants, empty lands that we first saw with my mum back in the 90ies. Back then we rented a small […]
After seeing Torre de Belem, eating a pasteis de nata and listening to Fado, there are still many great things left to do in Lisbon. I first came to Portugal 3 years ago, as a perfect meeting spot between Madrid and London. I did not know what to expect, and every […]
When I first went to Lisbon, M. gave to me two precious post-its with all the places we had to visit. Throughout the years, the content of these post-its grew and been many times updated. The most recent one, contained the extensive list of bars and restaurants, that from M.´s permission I will […]
