Journal

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 9 Everyone has an opinion about Naples and nobody has the right words for it. Naples I almost didn’t come. Every person I told said the same thing — be careful, watch your bag, it’s chaotic. Naples has a reputation problem and it knows, and […]

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 8 Sicily. Sardinia. The Amalfi Coast. Three pieces of Italy that have almost nothing in common except the passport. Sicily — Italy Part 1 Sicily is not Italy. That’s the first thing every Sicilian will tell you and the second thing you’ll figure out yourself.

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 7 Cairo. Tunisia. Valletta. A megacity that never sleeps, a country the world walks past, and a fortress the size of a neighbourhood that ran an empire. Cairo Cairo didn’t greet me. It grabbed me by the collar. Twenty-two million people in a metropolitan area

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 6 Santorini. Rhodes. Crete. The postcard, the fortress, and the island that doesn’t need a category. Santorini Everyone has seen Santorini before they arrive. The white domes, the blue roofs, the caldera at sunset. I stepped off the ferry already knowing what it would look

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 5 Naxos. Paros. Ios. Three islands that don’t need the ones everyone talks about. Naxos The ferry from Mykonos to Naxos takes forty minutes. The difference takes about three seconds to feel. I walked off the boat and the Portara was right there — the

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 4 Athens. Meteora. Mykonos. Philosophy, gravity, and the complete absence of both. Athens I landed in Athens expecting museums. What I got was an argument. The Acropolis doesn’t sit in the city — it sits above it, watching, like it’s still deciding whether the rest

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 3 Šibenik. Vis. Dubrovnik. Three places that prove the Adriatic doesn’t repeat itself — it escalates. Šibenik I arrived in Šibenik expecting another coastal town. I was wrong within thirty seconds. The Cathedral of St. James stood in front of me built entirely from stone

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 —

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Journal 0 Rome. Florence. Venice. Three cities that taught the world what civilization looks like. Rome I started in Rome — and Rome doesn’t ease you in. The Colosseum appeared between two apartment blocks on a random Tuesday morning, and for a moment I forgot it