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Real stories from the road — with a voiceover option on every post. Read or listen, your call.
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Gravel cycling in the Veneto. A detour that became the best part, a very cool man who brought his dog to the race, and cleaning the bike in a river after.
Sports & Adventure
The race days. A family ranch, GPS failing at Lake Garda, strawberries when exhausted, and the moment mid-stage when news arrived that stopped everyone.
Sports & Adventure
Late-season hiking around Cortina d'Ampezzo — Tre Cime, Lago di Sorapis, Lago di Braies, and the sky that made me forget where I was going.
Remote Work
Month one of full-time remote travel. The trails were closed. Something better opened instead.
Sports & Adventure
Pico Arieiro at dawn, 25 Fontes, swimming under waterfalls, running in fog with cows.
Travel Stories
No path. No plan. A yellow bush in the wind and a carpet of daisies at the end.
Travel Stories
The island next door. A day trip that ended with sleeping on the airport floor and the best sunset of the trip.
Sports & Adventure
Some people were jumping between trees. I was looking at my ski tips. Both are valid.
Sports & Adventure
In winter, Cascada Mireasa freezes solid. Ice axes, crampons, and the thunk of metal finding purchase.
Sports & Adventure
30km in the Romanian Carpathians for my 30th birthday. Boulder fields, glacial lakes, and the specific satisfaction of doing something hard on purpose.
Sports & Adventure
Three moments from a bicycle trip from Romania to Croatia that I'll never forget.
Solo Female Travel
My first solo remote work trip. What the Côte d'Azur taught me — the hard way.
Travel Stories
Two weeks of water sports, road trips, kite surfers, a crab standoff underwater, and a sentence written in sand that stuck with me long after the tide took it.
Remote Work
Coworking life, daily outdoor workouts, a cookie that saved the afternoon, one unforgettable night out, and moving on.
Travel Stories
The foggy, ancient laurisilva forests of the north — and the smaller moments: ice cream on the beach, a good travel buddy, and a mango eaten on the way to the gate.
Travel Stories
Last Tenerife days — aperol with a nomad, a pigeon with more confidence than most people — then a cycling race in Italy, comprehensive mud, and recovery on the Adriatic.
Travel Stories
The arrival chapter — cacti worth stopping for, papas arrugadas, kids at the beach doing it right, and handing back the keys at the end.
Sports & Adventure
Cycling across the island — elevator logistics, empty mountain roads, getting stuck in scrub avoiding the motorway, strangers who helped, and the Argentinian guy who rode off with the bike.
Sports & Adventure
A night hike up Spain's highest peak. Wind so strong you couldn't stand upright.
Sports & Adventure
A ridge with views to both coasts, a waterfall you swim toward, thermal water after, and a sunset that made everything feel connected.
Solo Female Travel
First days in Sao Miguel. Terra Nostra, city park rabbits, and the places that make you smile with your whole body.
Solo Female Travel
No car, no plan. How I accidentally built the best travel week of my life.
Sports & Adventure
Furnas thermal stew, a hot spring called heaven, and getting completely soaked on a mountain.
Sports & Adventure
Waterfall rappelling in Madeira. The noise, the power, and the face in the mirror after.
Sports & Adventure
Climbing the highest peak in the Apuseni by bike — the effort, the summit, the Strava route.
Sports & Adventure
First ride to summer cherries to autumn gold to mud — a year on the mint Orbea around Cluj.
Sports & Adventure
Fagăt, Muntele Rece, Valea Ierii, Finișel — local rides that never stop giving.
Sports & Adventure
A muddy downhill MTB day at Marisel near Cluj — and the moment I understood why people fall so hard for this sport.
Travel Stories
A traditional Balinese workshop — cracking coconuts, squeezing milk by hand, weaving banana leaf panels — and a Robert Frost quote between a stone frog and a painted duck.
Travel Stories
First days in Bali. Morning offerings, a knowing deity, Canggu's chaos, an unexpected beach club, a horse with a price tag, and a family saying thank you to the universe.
Travel Stories
Skip the tourist queues. I found the one with the lantern tree by accident, on a scooter, with no map open.
Remote Work
Cafés with fast Wi-Fi, $5 phở, morning glory for a dollar, and lobster on a pavement stool. Here's what it actually costs.
Solo Female Travel
My actual routine — including going to bed at 9pm, becoming fully unrecognisable on a scooter, and letting a child demonstrate gym confidence.
Travel Stories
Medieval towers with Făgăraș views, street art in the alleys, very good banana bread, and a sunset drive that needed its own playlist.
Sports & Adventure
The mountains in winter belong to almost nobody. Vlădeasa frozen, Tampa Hill in Brașov, and the ongoing plan to eventually learn to ski.
Sports & Adventure
The full-day hike up Spain's highest peak — remote woods, volcanic caldera, brutal wind — and the hostel room waiting at the end that was named El Teide. I had earned it.
Sports & Adventure
Desert roads, dramatic cliffs, green north forests, above-cloud viewpoints — four completely different landscapes on one island.
Sports & Adventure
Starting before midnight to summit the highest peak in Spain for sunrise, then disappearing into the ancient laurisilva forest.
Sports & Adventure
I met an Italian woman at the cowork on a Tuesday. By Friday we'd hiked a lava desert, a misty green valley, and a canyon that was her idea and I only agreed to because I trusted her credentials.
Sports & Adventure
From the first wobbly ride outside Brașov, through autumn forest roads and a mountain lake group ride, to L'Etape Romania in Bucharest and cycling near Nice.
Sports & Adventure
Running off a cliff, catching a thermal, and spending twenty minutes above an island that looks completely different from up there.
Travel Stories
Coloured houses, street art, very good pizza, and the kind of slow beach days you only find when you stop looking for them.
Sports & Adventure
New Year at a ski camp in the Romanian mountains — slopes, cold air, midnight outside in the snow, and people who feel like old friends by day two.
Sports & Adventure
After weeks on a bike, swapping to a horse in the Azores. A completely different conversation with a landscape I thought I already knew.
Travel Stories
Bali between the activity — gardens, offerings, rice terraces that look too green to be real, and the quieter version of the island.
Voiceover
Each post on this blog comes with an audio version — narrated by me, Anca. Hit play on any story card and listen while you walk, commute, or stare out a window. Travel writing was always meant to be heard.
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