Kacenka on the road

167 – May Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot and Never Brought to Mind! [sic]

January 2, 2023

Sic Erat Scriptum – “Occasionally a writer places [sic] after their own words, to indicate that the language has been chosen deliberately for special effect, especially where the writer’s ironic meaning may otherwise be unclear.” Just to stress that I used “may” instead of “should” and the exclamation mark quite intentionally, thus changing the rhetociral … More 167 – May Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot and Never Brought to Mind! [sic]

166 – Bear Spotting

October 27, 2022

The western coast of Canada has been a rare destination that I’ve been coming back to on semi-regular basis in the last decade, ever since Ornella, one of the most extraordinary women I know and am honoured to call a friend, decided to leave her life in Italy behind and try her luck overseas. I … More 166 – Bear Spotting

165 – E Ciò Sa ‘l Tuo Dottore

August 28, 2022

You know the drill: for the hiking stuff, SCROLL DOWN to the sentence in red. If you don’t, consider yourself warned. The Italians reading the title will instantly know the first two verses of the tercet – and those of you who know me will just think: “Oh, here we go. Again.” Yep. Correct. Indeed, … More 165 – E Ciò Sa ‘l Tuo Dottore

164 – I Want To Tell You

June 25, 2022

Lot of time has passed since I last published something, so I am as behind on content as ever, and many things happened in the meanwhile. I’ll probably get to writing about them at some point before Christmas. More importantly, I had some serious soul-searching to do since the last article. When I jokingly pointed … More 164 – I Want To Tell You

163 – Azzurro

April 13, 2022

PLEASE TAKE INTO ACCOUNT BEFORE READING THIS ARTICLE, THAT THE VIEWS EXPRESSED HERE SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN AT FACE VALUE. AT NO TIME IT WAS MY INTENTION TO GRATUITOUSLY INSULT ANOTHER COUNTRY, AND I AM DEEPLY SORRY IF I DID. BEFORE PROCEEDING WITH THE POST, READ THIS FISRT. For the recount of my journey to … More 163 – Azzurro

162 – Clouds in My Coffee

April 1, 2022

For hiking info, kindly scroll down Warning: this is going to be a long stream of unconsciousness and is not going to make any sense, least of all to me. Apologies for that. Someone once wrote that love is giving someone the ability to destroy you and trusting them not to. Google search attributes the … More 162 – Clouds in My Coffee

161 – C’Est Pas Pour Moi

March 8, 2022

“It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance.” This is what Albert Einstein wrote in a letter to his son Eduard in 1930. I would not dream of arguing with the genius of modern physics, but I dare to observe that, … More 161 – C’Est Pas Pour Moi

160 – Winter, finally

January 18, 2022

Winter is finally here. This is a rare on-time post, because I happened to be out in the mountains last weekend. It doesn’t mean I am not behind with this blog’s content, but while posting photographs from summer when it’s freezing and dark outside may seem nostalgic, publishing snowy pictures 5 months later would be … More 160 – Winter, finally

159 – Venite, Adoremus Dominum

January 4, 2022

Beginning of January and I am now officially 5 months late with my blog content. That is assuming that I will be able to finish this post before Epiphany. I mean the religious holiday, of course, I am sadly not expecting any ground-breaking revelatory event in my life anytime soon. That goes for any other … More 159 – Venite, Adoremus Dominum

158 – Improvised Hiking in León

November 23, 2021

This is a flashback post to my holidays in Verdiago last July. For people unfamiliar with this blog, Verdiago is a tiny village I discovered in 2020, when Spain was just coming out of the first wave of Covid-19 and one of the harshest confinement in Europe. We would not be allowed to come back … More 158 – Improvised Hiking in León

…ché la diritta via era smarrita.