I left Murg in the morning and, after changing trains in Ziegelbrücke and Zurich, I arrived in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. To reach the hostel I took the metro, which in this case was included in my Interrail pass, and I walked a bit more to Sachsenhausen, the neighborhood south of the old town across…
There is a wide range of different writing systems all around the world, but a large majority of them share one common ancestor: the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. From the Latin alphabet to the Arabic script, from Ethiopian characters to Mongolian writing, and probably even the South Asian systems, they all derive from the hieroglyphs used…
After months of careful planning and countless hours spent looking at train times, hostel prices, monuments to see, and museums to visit, I was ready. I wrote a long note on my phone with everything I wanted to do and see and every train I had to take day by day for the entirety of…
This is the story of the greatest adventure of my life. I spent two months traveling incessantly around Europe with an Interrail global pass that gave me almost unlimited access to most trains in the continent outside of Italy. That’s because an Interail ticket allows you to board any train you want just by saving…
Cosmundus is now officially online! So, what is Cosmundus? First of all, the name comes from two words with a similar meaning: cosmos, a word of Greek origin for “universe”, and mundus, a Latin expression for “world” or “universe”. Here, I will post articles on history, travel, science, culture, and much more on the blog…