Around the World

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 12 Mykonos has two faces. The party island everyone talks about. And the quiet corners nobody photographs. The thing nobody tells you about Mykonos Mykonos is not really the destination. Two miles west of Mykonos Town, across a stretch of Aegean water thin enough […]

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 11 Meteora. Monks built these monasteries on top of stone pillars six hundred years ago. No roads. No stairs. Just ropes and faith. The word meteora, in Greek, means suspended in the air. This is literal, not metaphorical. Above the small town of Kalabaka

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 10 Athens doesn’t start at the Acropolis. It starts in the backstreets of Plaka — where the alleys are older than most countries. There is a neighbourhood in Athens called Plaka Nobody can tell you exactly when it was founded, because founded is the

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 9 Dubrovnik’s city walls are over 600 years old. Two kilometres of stone, built to protect a republic that lasted longer than most empires. But the best part isn’t the view from the top. It’s getting lost in the streets below. Ragusa — the

🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 8 Vis was a military island until 1989. No tourists for fifty years. That’s why it still looks like this. Vis is the farthest inhabited island from the Croatian mainland It takes two and a half hours by ferry from Split, across a stretch

🌐 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

🌐 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

🌐 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

🌐 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

🌐 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