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You can say a lot about Estonia (1), but not that it’s a mountainous country. Okay, Lasnamäe was built on a plateau of limestone and extreme euphemists – the type of people who’d say that Donald Trump is one sandwich short of a picnic – call the region around Karksi-Nuia

Marrakesh is a loud, chaotic, messy, disordered jumble of streets and alleys… In other words, a great city. The petit taxi opens its door near the El Badi Palace and we inhale the atmosphere of Marrakesh. Quite literally. Our nostrils fill with the familiar smell of gasoline, exhaust fumes and

Morocco is in a festive mood. Just before our arrival, the Atlas Lions qualified for the World Cup in Russia, at the expense of Marc Wilmots’ Ivory Coast, and it shows. Even days after the feat, men crowd in tea houses in Agadir to look at the decisive goals of

When you turn 23, you party until the moon becomes a sun, and drink enough beer to single-handedly keep AB-Inbev’s business figures up. It’s the celebration of your life and all your friends are invited! Then, seemingly the next day, you turn 33 and you feel weary, beat, exhausted. You’d

It’s 6 pm and the sky turns to a deep dark blue, the air is thick and warm. We sit on a dock in Utila and browse the internet. Under us, black water laps hypnotically against the dock making us sleepy as if we’re babies in the cradle. Behind us,