As it usually happens to me with films and places, I fell in love with New Zealand for the first time after watching St. Clair, Otago – Photo by PhillipC a movie. In this case, it was Lee Tamahori’s superb ONCE WERE WARRIORS. This is a 90′s movie, so, NZ and I actually go way  Read more »

The first time I was in Athens, I wanted to see and do everything. I was coming from Korfu, which I had reached via Bari. I have told many times before on this blog the story of how it was Henry Miller´s THE COLOSSUS OF MAROUSI, in a German edition, read under the delicious Ibiza  Read more »

This is the second guest post ever on The Wander life, by travel blogger extraordinaire Joe, who shows a flair for film criticism as well. I added my favorite travel movie of all times at the bottom! Enjoy! If you’re a traveller, what’s the next best thing to travelling? Daydreaming about it? Writing about? Talking  Read more »

So, we are halfway through the summer, and I still haven´t been able to take a proper vacation, but I have just spent a couple of weeks with a few interruptions at my family´s summer house in Las Toscas Honestly, I used to spend only a few weekends there every summer, but this year I  Read more »