Vlady the Script Guy

A travel note about Vlady, the guy who sells movie scripts for about 20 dollars in the middle of Soho, NYC.

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Haenyeo: The Sea Women of Jeju Island

A travel note about the Haenyeo, one more living example of the strength of Korean women.

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The Venice Piano Man

A quick travel note about a fortuitous lonely encounter with Nathan Pino, the Piano man of Venice Beach.

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A song by the river

This is a quick scribbling I wrote after one of my first attempts at taking street portraits of strangers back in October 2015. It is not really a travel note, because it was taken on the -other- side of the Elbe, when I still lived in Hamburg.