For us who come from the Balkans, everything seems like a parallel universe. There is no drama and visible exaggerated emotions here. There is a fundamental conviction that life is a serious matter, but that in that seriousness there must be room for play, harmony and tenderness. And that this is not achieved by chance, but through practice, order, and culture
All the other stations on the route of this railway - Adaševci, Morović, Višnjićevo and Sremska Rača - are neglected, full of garbage, in some of them parts of furniture, maps, signaling have been left, and in one even the entire (locked) safe.
The escapist detachment from the banality of the modern world and the almost monastic dedication to the calling made Pogorelić a preacher who, in a time of general saturation with classical music, offered the audience its new meanings.
Hogewijk in the Netherlands is a pioneering venture. It's an entire neighborhood for people with dementia (pictured) - they live there as normally as possible - but are surrounded by medical staff. Some say it's a model of the future, others say it's the Truman Show
After the series White lotus, Taormina was swept by a wave of travelers of the new "Grand Tour", who, like Oscar Wilde, Edward VII and Baron Rothschild 130 years before them, come to this place in search of inspiration and excitement
