🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 7 Šibenik’s cathedral took 105 years to build. Every stone carved by hand. No brick, no wood — the only cathedral in Europe made entirely of stone. Šibenik — Medieval Stone, Tesla’s Electricity The stone that built the Cathedral of St. James was quarried […]
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Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 2 From sea level in Lovran to 1,396 metres. From a mountain summit to a city market in Zagreb. From a capital to Plitvice lakes that build their own world. Lovran I started the week looking up. Vojak — the highest peak of Učka —
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 6 In Dalmatia, they say a fish should travel three times in its life. From the sea to the net. From the net to the fire. From the fire to your plate. Never further. There is a word in Dalmatia — pomalo Pomalo roughly
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 5 You hear Plitvice before you see it. I walked in from the upper entrance, to Plitvice lakes down a path thick with beech and fir, and the forest did what forests do — muffled the world, shrank my attention to the ten meters
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 4 Zagreb’s trams have been running since 1891. But the real heart of the city is Dolac — open every morning since 1930. Locals call it Zagreb’s belly. There are cities people visit to see landmarks. Zagreb is not one of them. Zagreb is
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 3 The morning in Istria doesn’t begin with coffee. It begins with a cow. She was already awake when I walked to the barn — the kind of cow that has done this so many times she finds the human’s nervousness slightly embarrassing. The
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I flew from Crete to Cairo. There was no ferry — that crossing stopped being practical decades ago. I watched the Mediterranean change colour through the window as Africa appeared, first as a brown line, then as a city so large it seemed to have no edges. Egypt The first Egypt moment — Giza The
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Route: Cairo (Pyramids, Souq, Nile) → Luxor (Valley of the Kings, Karnak, Luxor Temple) Distance: 510 km (by air or rail — not a driving route) Transport: Domestic flight (1 hour) or overnight Talgo sleeper train (9–10 hours) Recommended duration: 5–7 days (2–3 Cairo, 2–3 Luxor) Best months: October–April Currency: Egyptian Pound (EGP). Approximately 50–52
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A morning in Heraklion. I was walking along the harbour wall — the Venetian one, built in the sixteenth century by people who expected it to still be standing when they were not — and I stopped at a place where someone had carved letters into the stone. Not graffiti. Something older. A name, or
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🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 2 I arrived in Lovran by scent. The laurel got there first. Lovran – The town is named after a tree. I didn’t know a place could be named after a smell. In Croatian, lovor means laurel — the bay leaf, the Roman victor’s
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