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Eclipsed by Rome, polluted by Instagram influencers, but still an awesome place to visit. — Milan, one of the most famous Italian destinations, is a metropolis in Italy’s northern Lombardy region. This cosmopolitan hub is known as the mecca for fashion and design. It is also home to the national stock exchange — a very high-end, luxurious city filled with decadent restaurants and shops. In…

Examples of chaotic attempts from young Russians’to escape Ukraine’s death fields. — Ps: Check my channel, The Expat. 20.09.2022, 19:00 I was sipping glasses of tonic gin while enjoying my holidays in Cyprus, my favorite beach destination in Europe (followed closely by Malta). A place that this year specifically got much cheaper due to the absence of Russian tourists. It was my…

Winter preparation checklist: keeping warm with minimal heating — The problems, conflicts, and crises of this year so far have affected countries in quite different magnitudes and proportions. China is suffering from a massive domino effect of bankruptcies that may trigger the mother of all real estate crises. Lithuania and Poland are facing the threat of a radioactive cloud…

Obliterated lifetime savings: a tragic story that is becoming too common — Have you ever heard the expression YOLO? If you are over 35 years old, there is a good chance that you have no idea what that means, but it is an acronym for You Only Live Once. Even though I’m not 35, I didn’t know this either until I saw…

Why the city from which James Joyce and Colin Farrell came should be on your bucket list. — Who doesn’t enjoy a good story of superation? Stories in which a character, despite all odds, manages to escape a nightmare life and rise to glory. When the stories are about entire cities or nations rather than just one particular person, I find them to be even more interesting. And…

The worst part? This indicator was never wrong before. — The year 2022 is, so far, full of wild guesses and random forecasts. Some of these predictions are made by investors based on historical cycles, others are made by entrepreneurs based on their market perceptions, and there are a few based on dreams under psychoactive substances (and these aren’t even…

And after living there for years, I can share with you — The 2022 FIFA World Cup had its fair share of polemics. From the qualifying matches canceled hours before the start due to Covid restrictions to accusations of slave labor to build the host nation stadiums. There is one question, however, that still puzzles many tourists and football fans planning to…

The Russian leader’s “accidental” armageddon games have a logical (but dooming) economic justification. — The almost daily bombings of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant are one of the most recent events in the war in Ukraine that has been getting more attention lately. All the attention this place is receiving is not undeserving. If anything, we should be way more alarmed by the increasing…