We will be cooking a dinner (serving 4 people) of 3 South Indian meals with 2 «garnishes» = 5 all in all.

To all those courageous and adventurous corporate clerks. The answers to your control-freaking minds. Just a month before quitting my banking job, we went to see the “Wonderful life of Walter Mitty” movie, where he runs away to travel the World without a toothbrush or a suitcase he could put it into. Then I thought: “Hideous. Totally unbelievable. That’s one of the reasons I never liked Ben Stiller”.

Two weeks in Cape Town and I am totally blown away by the place. So blown that I wish I have all of my friends and friends of friends to be here to be able to share the joy, the beauty, the magnificence, as much as the warmth and hospitality of the people. Every new turn on the road is the visual blast, every new encounter is a heart-warmer, every bite of food is a treat. Besides, coming back to the English-speaking environment is a relief, the pain is driving on the «wrong» side of the road, yet the driving is nice by itself, «I like».

At first I thought it’s a luck. Then — it’s a coincidence. But after the fifth time — it’s a rule. As my former boss used to be saying: «1 time is an accident. 3rd time is statistics». So Cape Town is to me a statistically the friendliest city so far. It’s a fact.

In Mexico, in a tiny town of San Cristobal de las Cascas, I found Claudia Munos Moralez. Having abandoned her flashy career with the Mexican fashion business, she moved to Chiapas in the search of big answers and eventually started a social enterprise still in fashion but glorifying the work and beauty of indigenous people.