Purple Scarf Girl

Solo travels of a wandering dervish

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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit


"Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

"Nearly every major European city has a unique offering for a different kind of traveller. But if there is one city that has it all, it’s Zurich."

"The real magic, however, happens in the desert"