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"I'm afraid you now owe a fine of €10," the benevolent French ticket controller stated matter-of-factly. "What? For not stamping our stupid train tickets? We didn't even know we had to!" retorted the Barbie-like girl seated in front of me.

It started a week a go, before 8th of October 2011. A friend of mine, Ache offered me to spend weekend at her home in Gili Meno.

Can you imagine how the sensational feeling would be, if you could see sunrise from 2770 m height above sea level?

It was a trip to Mumbai; the financial capital of India. The year was 2008 and Mumbai had just been struck by terrorists who had ripped out the heart and soul of the city.

The beast scuttles across the roof of the cave with unearthly, silent speed. Like a minion of Hades, it darts and lurches, doing whatever it can to evade the splash of my flashlight as I try to trace its progress above my head.

I remember arriving into the capital city, Dhaka, for the first time and would return there many times over the next two years, having taken a job as a flight attendant for a Middle Eastern airline.

I thought I had chosen Caroline. But looking back, I realise - Caroline had chosen me.

When stepping inside the building, I admired one spot with what we called it as a stationary object. That resembled a made-by-human massive stone. And that also a kind of part history which built in several...

When given the opportunity, I will usually choose the road less traveled. This was the case when I had the chance to travel to Bogota, Colombia.

“There is a light on the Afghan side.” I put my plastic bowl of mashed potato down and stared hard through the evening gloom to the opposite bank of the river. To where we thought there had been no-one.