nostalgia

13 October 2025

New York Nostalgia

Eight times I’ve been to New York in my life so far, and I feel the relationship that I have (or had) with this city has taught me a lot about life. Today when I think about New York, I get mildly overwhelmed at the thought of so many people and so much noise, but back when I visited, I really enjoyed this city. But let’s start at the beginning. My first visit to New York was in 1997 together with my mother. I was probably 12 or 13 years old, barely a teenager, and I definitely didn’t speak much […]

29 April 2025

What 3 Australian TV shows taught me about life

Tired of American TV shows, or just America in general? Why not go down under for a bit? There are certainly a lot of hidden gems down there, and it’s most definitely not only Bluey that’s the greatest thing Australian TV has produced in the past 10 or so years! I’ve tried a lot of Australian movies and TV shows over the years, and while there were a lot that I couldn’t get into at all, either because they just bored me or they were way too cringe (Cleverman, Underbelly, Glitch, Deadloch, Colin from Accounts, Fisk), there are also a […]

6 April 2011

Back on the horse

If you have been stalking me and my blog since it’s early days, you may remember me mentioning my horse Daisy a few times. But I doubt both, so I’ll be glad to tell the whole story again. I also daresay my writing skills have become less immature since I last wrote about my childhood passion: horses. Yep, I used to be one of those obnoxious horse-fanatic girls who regularly read trashy horse magazines (thankfully I got tired of them pretty early and read a “real” adult horse magazine, Cavallo in this case, instead). I wonder where my fascination for […]