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Traditional Antigua – Guatemala part 1

People don’t have to ask me twice about which my favourite country was in Central America, Guatemala wins hands down.

Antigua was a place filled with tradition, fragrances, tastes and impressions, and I was happy to be able to walk around by night without fearing assault and without being called a princess. Even the most traditional ladies were open for a chat that didn’t feel like I was buying something – valuable talks about life and their convictions. I was in Antigua only for two days and spent most of my time with two new friends who I met on the road – George who I met already on the bus from Nicaragua, and Stephanie who we met on the shuttle between Guatemala City and Antigua. Both lovely people.

Hover the photos for more info. I’m sorry for shortening the stories like this, I will share some highlights separately on a different occasion – right now there’s just too much.

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my passport 2005 – 2013

A quick run through my old passport that has been joining me since I started travelling five years ago. I had to renew it as I only had two pages left for stamps and will be travelling soon again. Receiving the new, empty, modern passport felt like starting from scratch, like rebooting the system. What’s next? What now? Was that it? I don’t know.

After speaking to friends who’s biggest obstacle to travelling is the whole process of standing in line for, applying for, paying for, waiting for and hoping for a visa, I have become increasingly thankful for my EU passport that opens doors of trust in most places. Truth is, I’ve only had to apply for visa through an embassy for three of the 38 countries I visited since this passport was printed. Thank you, Sweden.

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Made in Yugoslavia

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Yesterday I made sure to catch up with some people I really wanted to meet before taking off again in a couple of days.

I ran errands, drove around, had lunch and went shopping with Becky, who originally is half Bosnian and half Croatian. Later I hung out with a friend who originally is Serbian and we watched some clips from the Swedish movie “Made in Yugoslavia” about the life of Yugoslavian immigrants to Sweden in the early 90’s – a nice conclusion to my Balkan day.

Today I will be taking care of computer-bound errands, such as signing up for the Emirates award program, updating my CV, backing up data and connecting my NAS to the network again.


Produced by: Filmkreatörerna
Written and directed by: Miko Lazic

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Please define yourself

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First of all, a big kudos to this online visa application system.

We have been out shopping all day, my mother and I, and it has been a rather interesting experience.

“Wait wait, are you sure these shoes will go with my new backpack?”

I’m taking my mother on a real trip for the first time ever. Passion for fashion and perfect structure thrown into the most random, hot and humid of places. There will be quotes.

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Black goes with everything. And works well on trains and dusty buses. I’m more into “whatever” mode on the fashion part – but super excited about this trip. If I get my visa on time, that is.