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Why I moved to the countryside at 34 (and what nobody told you)
It was not a revelation. It was a cheap house, an expired lease and a one-month trial that has lasted three years.
Sunday bread: neighbour Floare’s recipe, with weights
Floare weighs nothing. I weighed it, three Sundays in a row, so you can make her bread in a city kitchen.
Three days on the Via Transilvanica, with the wrong backpack
I left with 11 kilos on my back and came home with 7 and a list for anyone wanting to start. The Bistrița–Sărata section, in September.
Autumn in the orchard: what to do with 200 kilos of apples
Five old trees, a good year and a pleasant problem. What I learned about juice, vinegar, drying, and neighbours who never refuse apples.
The wooden churches of Maramureș without the coach: a two-day driving route
Eight UNESCO churches, country roads, the key from the neighbour and one piece of advice that matters: go on Sunday morning.
A day without a phone in the Danube Delta, with a fisherman who does not talk
At Mila 23, a man with a rowing boat, no motor, and 11 hours in which I said almost nothing. The best thing I did this year.