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Freelance writer based in Scotland; mostly deals with cultural journalism, travel, eco-living, and alternative lifestyles.
Explore rugged beauty and the soul of Celtic culture on the Isle of Lismore, in the archipelago of The Hebrides, Scotland.
Natural wine evokes notions of exclusive wine bars and fine dining, but, as One Planet Journey’s Enrico Belcore discovers, the world of natural wine is rural. After a month’s hard work, taking part in last year’s harvest in the French region of Val de Loire, he finds sustainability, tradition, and connection with nature at the core of the entire process.
For years, the Azores were overlooked, escaping—at least in part—the burdens of tourism thanks to their position in the middle of the Atlantic, just midway between Europe and America. That's now changed, with their isolation attracting nearly a million tourists every year shortly before the pandemic. Wild beauty and rural surroundings give the archipelago a certain uncharted charm, setting it apart from the mass tourism of the nearby Madeira and Canary Islands.
Berlin-based artist Boris Eldagsen took the art world by storm winning the Sony World Photography Award with an AI generated image. The whole project served as a provocation toward the art world, created with the intent of rising questions and sparking a discussion about what can be considered art, and consequently, what is the place of AI in the current art scene.
Airports are good places for writing. I see them as an in-between space, where people prepare for what is coming next. The appeal lies in the motion—not exclusively in its physical sense—but in the whole concept of movement and preparation to change.
Recently, I've been seeing the word 'nomad' popping out from any corner. People all around the world have gone nomad, apparently. And surly articles on the topic are not scanty. It just takes a quick research on the web to find dozens of companies using the term as part of their brand.
Identity works through mysterious ways. As a child, I believed I'd become a professional swimmer. After swimming came basketball, then skateboarding and then hundreds of other things. It’s never a conscious choice, rather a natural evolution that leads each one of us to leave the familiar for the unfamiliar.
Every once in a while I catch myself plotting how to leave everything I know and move to an imprecise place in nature. Generally, this is the train of thoughts that follows.