Dispatch no. 47 — August 2026
Chase the golden hour, then miss the bus on purpose.
Sunflower is a travel blog about life, adventures, and whatever comes along — long coastal detours, questionable ferry timetables, and the strangers who feed you dinner anyway.
route drawn on a napkin, mostly accurate
41.9°N / 12.4°E — still heading south
Fresh off the road
Latest dispatches
Half-planned routes, questionable snacks, and the occasional sunrise that makes it all worth it. New stories land whenever the wifi cooperates.
I rode Tram 28 four times in one day
Once by accident, three times on purpose. A love letter to Lisbon’s hills, its blue-tiled walls, and the pastry I ate standing up on a corner at 7am.
Twelve hours on the night bus north
Nobody warns you that the air conditioning has two settings: off and glacier. Notes on sleeping sitting up, and why I’d do it again next week.
How to pack badly and survive anyway
Six trips in, I still forget socks and overpack books. Here’s the short list of things I’ve never once regretted carrying.
Breakfast is the best way to meet a city
Skip the museum queue. Find the counter where locals stand, order what the person ahead of you ordered, and let the morning tell you the rest.
In praise of the completely lost afternoon
The days I remember best are the ones with nothing booked. An argument for leaving one blank square on every itinerary.
The detour that named this blog
A wrong turn on a rented bike, a field that went on forever, and the reason every page here is yellow.
Pick a thread
What you’ll find around here
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Road stories
Long-form dispatches from buses, ferries, borrowed sofas and mountain passes. Mostly true, always messy.
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Practical bits
What things cost, which trains actually run, and the small logistics nobody puts in the guidebook.
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Whatever comes along
Market dogs, questionable haircuts, playlists for long drives, and the occasional thought about home.
The plan was three weeks. It has been eleven months, two backpacks and one very patient houseplant sitter.
From the very first post, September 2025
Hello there
A blog about life, adventures, and whatever comes along
Sunflower started as a folder of unsent postcards. It turned into a place to write down the things that don’t fit in a caption: the six-hour delay that became the best night of the trip, the market stall that taught me a recipe, the days I did absolutely nothing but sit in a square.
There’s no schedule and no sponsored itinerary. Just one person, a notebook, and a habit of following whichever road looks more interesting.
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