Going to Paris during the 2024 OIympic Games is an idea that came up more than one year ago, in 2023. The original plan was to take part at the “Marathon Pour Tous”, an event in which I believed without questioning its fairness, but in the end it just proved out to offer slots mostly…
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Lavaredo Ultra Trail 2024 – the story of a mighty experience
Lavaredo Ultra Trail was on the wish list for quite long, and in 2024 the time for the participation came, as I was successfully extracted at the ballot. A procedure that becomes more frequent at such competitions, ones of the most popular in the world, with limited slots available. Being in the mountain side, it…
Madeira, the running island you must see! – two weeks guide
“Machico, the world capital of trail running”, is written somewhere at a stand at the MIUT finish line. It might be a slight exaggeration, but it is not far from truth. In Funchal, for example, I saw the most runners on square meter from all the places I have visited in my life, and I…
PHOTO STORY | Being and feeling in Nazaré, the land of giant waves
When it comes to unique places in the world, I am the first to want and explore them. Nazaré, from Portugal, is one of these places. Maybe having huge waves at your disposal is not something that happens only here, but having recorded the biggest waves in the world, indeed grants a stamp of a…
Walking thru Longyearbyen, the world’s northernmost town with more than 1000 people!
Narrating about a full lovely experience in Svalbard is nice, but when we are talking about intense feelings, it’s so hard to expose them in a single article. So I am back with some tales from the town of Longyearbyen, the most populated settlement from the archipelago, and also the northernmost settlement with more than…
Some more activities in Tromsø: Polaria, Mack beer & visiting the famous Arctic Cathedral
When we travelled first time in Tromsø, in January 2023, at the beginning of the year, we covered a lot of things, and activities, but we actually miss some as well. This is why when we decided to spend our New Year’s Eve in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, we jointed four more nights in the Paris of…
Things to do in Svalbard & Longyearbyen – Kingdom of… snow
Here is the story of Svalbard and Longyearbyen, by winter or… by Polar Night! If you figure it out how to make enough money to sustain the burning fire of the desire to see the entire world, many remote places, then every sweet dream can become reality. Since I didn’t figured that out yet, I…
And then, here is Andorra! You must visit it!
My madness to complete a Spartan Race Ultra brought me to small, but very beautiful Andorra. In fact, from the bus ride started in Barcelona, one of Europe’s hubs of basically everything, things started looking great. Our accommodation happened to be in Andorra La Vella, the capital city of the very small state from the…
Malta, a great destination all around the year – things to do there
Malta is a small archipelago in the Mediterranean See that has a lot to offer. It can be visited all over the year, and so we did go for some days in August when, if you ask me, is the most inappropriate time, because it is hot as fuck and in some ways you fail…
Tromsø, how to live a dream – chapter 2
My curiosity about Tromsø was born from a… magazine. I saw the Midnight Sun Marathon advertised, so I have decided from that moment I needed to attend it. Now, it is not so easy to go to the northernmost city of Norway and, I think, the biggest northernmost city in the world actually, so for…