Parandeh Mohajer I see that when it comes to Balouchistan, most people have a preception of a conservative region in south of Pakistan. But where is Balouchistan really? Balouchistan is name of a region expanding south east of Iran and south of Pakistan. This Iran-Pakistan border has caused many families…
Category: Travelogue
Chuggers in Christmas Market of UK
My perspective is limited to a view through an approximately 3mx1.2m rectangle window of the market stall I work in. Day by day I observe this piece of public space with the unimpressive and static background consisting of Santander bank, E mobile store and branded stationery up to fellow trader’s pick-and-mix sweets stall.
European woman in India
Francesca Benelli There are lots of good people in India, who you can trust and be friends with but you can’t be friendly with people who offer themselves blatantly to you. As a single woman, I was constantly amazed by the beauty and chaos and raw humanity of this incredible…
East European Pickers on the road
It was supposed to be the end of summer but it turned out to be the hottest autumn to be remembered. The last days of August I join my friends in Geneva to go to France, a bunch of other Eastern-Europeans, Polish, Checks, Hungarians, all of them seasonal farm-workers and restless vagabonds. Some of them had just managed to save-up their picking wages to buy mature and experienced second-hand camping vans: The Hotel Transporter and the Transit Paradise. With more folks on board they run the merrier. But they don’t run fast. No highways, no haste, only small distances on little roads and many halts. The Swiss turn back and stare: they never see such rickety things driving through their towns.