Exploring places where few choose to go for vacation is one of the biggest pleasures of my life. 2020 was an year when I could explore this hobby as it fullest. Just COVID-19 was about to severely hit Europe, I took advantage of me being relocated for work in Budapest, Hungary, and decided to leverage…
André Schürrle, mental layers of conscience: from world champion to backyard ultra
“The lows were becoming lower and the highs were fewer and further between. The only thing that counts on the pitch is performance. Weakness and vulnerability must not exist at any time“, the words engraved in a forgotten DW post, from 2020. They belong to a 29 years old, André Schürrle, who recognizes that top…
Traveling in imagination, the ultimate trend
I am not joking, traveling in imagination can really be a trend. Let me explain why. Step by step. Myself, as you might have seen on my site, I like to travel a lot, and I’ve been to a few unconventional places, at least from a conventional wisdom perspective. But there are places you don’t…
FIFA World Cup 2026: participating nations at the glamourous event
As I wrote before, the FIFA World Cup is on the process of becoming 100% a true festival, rather than a sports competition. From some regards, that is not necessary bad, but if you want still to scale the event in terms of competitiveness, that won’t be possible in a couple of editions. Actually this…
Arsene Wenger is right, because football is for the people!
Back in 2020, Arsene Wenger had a simple, but very interesting idea to change the way in which offside is judged: an attacker is only offside if their entire body, capable of scoring, is ahead of the last defender, creating “daylight” or a clear gap, rather than being level. The aim of this is to…
18th of January 2026, the 30000 kilometers day
It is not really anything on the other side of this number, once tapped. Every running milestone I’ve touched in my (almost) ten years counting felt roughly the same. As in real life, as Schopenhauer would say, “happiness is always less than we expect, while pain is always more”. Leaving aside the philosophic side of…
Is Norway an expensive country?
Funny enough, I saw recently a map of the European countries with the word Japanese people are associating each. There, for Norway the word was expensive. It is true also, that Norway is usually perceived in general as a very, if not at least, expensive country. Is that true? I will tell you what my…
Bergen, great place to be for the New Years Eve!
Bergen, the former capital of medieval Norway, and the current second largest city, is a key location if you want to experience the Nordic country at its finest. Said to be the rainiest location in Europe (!!!), Bergen really has a lot to offer. When we chose to spend a third New Years Eve in…
PHOTO | First Athletic Park in Romania, like in Denmark! Is that so…?
On 10th of December 2025, a marvel for sports lover, especially running, was erased in Bacau, Romania: Athletic Park. At a first glance, when explored in the Christmas period, it looks to worth it, and seems a very good sports facility for all people from the town. However, I like to put things in a…
Rapid Bucharest, mixed 2025 feelings. What’s up for 2026?
Not admitting Rapid Bucharest has a profoundly shitty performance on the field, it would be an absolute no brainer. The good thing here still is the fact that all Romanian football is shaped from the same material, and then a poor behavior on the pitch is not something that ultimately can go as single blame…