Village Life
April 22, 2020
Why do we travel? Because it shows us we’re not alone, it shows us that a person from the other side of the globe, speaking a different language and believing in a different god can be exactly like us, can feel the same joy when looking at something beautiful and can feel the same pain when hurt. Travel opens our minds, connects us in ways we never thought possible.
March 16, 2018
By Warren Singh-Bartlett If Transylvania’s Saxon churches, with their thick walls topped by towers, look a little like fortresses, that’s because in part, they were. Subjected to repeated invasion by the Mongols and later, the Ottomans, Saxon villagers fortified their churches, making them defensible and the larger ones even had rooms set aside for villagers to inhabit during a siege. […]
September 16, 2016
In a world where speed and technology is all we find around us, where the connection with the land beneath our feet seems to be more and more severed, many times making us look like walking zombies, there’s still someone who stands firm in his convictions and connection to the world around us: the Romanian peasant. “Eternity was born in […]
