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I’m becoming a grumpy old person, and still kind of getting back to the everyday routine after returning from Nepal, so take this with a huge pinch of salt. But I’m getting so tired of most of the travel content being created nowadays, we somehow lost the joy of curiosity and discovery.
When did the travel stuff switched from the displaying the best of a place to “hey, look what I am doing now!”?
Why do most of the travel content creators now put themselves between the reader and the place they’re at?
Why do so many of them kind of play around with the readers lack of knowledge of that place to not be entirely honest about it, so it conveys the narrative they’re building?
I think I know the answers to all these questions, I guess this evolution to a more lifestyle driven way to do things never really caught on me. But again, I’m just a grumpy old guy…
Doing a full work week after so long out of office sure feels damn long! Oh well… Tomorrow’s Friday.
“Wake me up inside
When the light strikes again
There’s another way to find
On my own, I’ll meet you there
I’ll strike you every time”
🎵 Brutus - “Victoria”
The joy of returning to work… Lets get this week started!!!
You’ve been away for a while and you don’t remember it’s F1 day.
It’s late afternoon, but the race is in Brazil, so we’re ok.
Leclerc seems to be in pole! 😁
Leclerc retires in formation lap… 😤
This is a scaffold of the ongoing repairs from the damages of 2015 earthquake… Arriving home from Nepal, with the news that another one has struck, is both heartbreaking and a brutal reminder of how that beautiful country is vulnerable to nature…
Amazing the “addition” of nepalis for videocalls, now I understand why they have really big data plans!
Finally time to give Bhaktapur its well deserved slow place, because good things don’t like rushing out.
Don’t like to give gear lessons to anyone, each is free to choose what works for them, but having a large photographer group in the narrow cities of Bhaktapur, each with bulky, full frame, vertical grip DLSRs along huge telephoto lenses and big backpacks might be a bit too much.
Não querendo generalizar, mas se há turista que literalmente se borrifa no resto são grupos de franceses, seja para locais ou outros turistas. Parece que estão numa pequena bolha francesa…
🗺 📸 Hike in the Kathmandu Valley countryside, to reach Namo Buddha, one of Nepal’s holy Buddhist places. Made me realize I still have things to do at Bodhanauth, let’s see if I can squeeze that when I returned to Kathmandu.
🗺 📸 Any city looks better by dawn, but Patan is really a place best seen under the first rays of light. Not only because the lack of tourists that haven’t arrived yet from the day tours from Kathmandu, but mostly from its slow awakening, with the daily routines coming to life, specially the visit to the temples at the beginning of the day.
🚶🏔️ Day 8 - Chhomrong to Ghandruk
Let’s just ignore the steep downhill and uphill midday, and focus on the bucolic countryside of Nepal that we started and ended the day.
The bliss of the first good hot shower in a week, one with a really good flow of warm water running on your back, is something you can’t really explain. Specially when you weren’t counting on it for today… 😊😊
🚶🏔️ Day 6 - Annapurna Base Camp to Dovan.
Time to leave the high peaks, with an early sunrise over the Annapurna, and move down, down, back to the forests.
Day 5 - Machhapuchhre Base Camp to Annapurna Base Camp.
A small climb between base camps, although any climb at this altitude can make you breed a lot faster, but the relatively short walk had plenty of mountains to show us!
