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I usually do not think about differences on gender, skin colour, sexual orientation, etc. I don't embrace this kind of tag. This post is about my experiences travelling alone and also about things I observe other women are often worried about when doing this. As a nomad, I moved alone from a city to another. My family or friends did not move with me. Sometimes they moved later, when I was a bit comfortable in my new destination. As a traveller, I like to travel alone. It's comfortable to have a room in a hotel only for me. I love the freedom to plan my trips not depending on someone else's needs. I can eat where I want, visit the places I prefer, change the plans without the risk to have others complaining. I see many women does not feel comfortable with these ideas that enchant me. Probably because they think men and women are different. I think there's only those obvious physical differences. All the rest depend on how each one was educated, among other points. I...

Today I selected some movies about music. Part are biographies. Other suggestions are fiction. • The dirt • Bohemian Rhapsody • Clara Schurman • The Doors • Rocketman • Amadeus • A star is born • Burlesque • Show bar Add your suggestions commenting this post. Nycka, the nomad.

There are various movies with dogs having important positions and causing strong emotions. I don't know many movies with cats being as lovely and intelligent as they are, so, I listed 3 and in 2 of them the cats are not in a central position. If you know others, tell me. • Shrek • Garfield • Alice in Wonderland Nycka, the nomad

Some movies are interesting and inspiring for travellers and nomads. Biographies are nice to inspire us to know the places that person lived, the places that inspired some artist, etc. But other movies are also interesting, considering the beauties of some places, the story or other possibilities. Some movies for those in need of inspiration to a new trip are: • Whale Rider • Under the Tuscan Sun • My life in ruins • The tourist • L'Ora Legale (Italy from a point of view different of the one presented in "Under the Tuscan Sun) • Loving, Vincent Have you ever started a trip inspired by some movie? Did you move for another country inspired by some movie? Share your experience through the comments. Nycka, the nomad

Brazil is a very large country and it have different climates and vegetation. Each region have rich culinary options worthy the experience. This post is about pequi, a fruit typical from the Brazilian cerrado. The most common uses are in the "galinhada" (rice with chicken and pequi) and the "arroz com pequi" (rice with pequi and "carne de sol", a salted bovine meat). Both options can be eaten with a green salad for dinner. You will easily find them visiting cities as Uberaba, Uberlandia, Montes Claros and Goiania. It's also possible to find them in Brasilia. To eat the fruit I recommend you to take it with your hands and eat, taking care because it's a bit like a small mango, with a big seed inside and it's better not to break the seed or you'll end the night at the hospital with a lot of thin thorns inside your mouth. The seed is hard, don't be afraid. This is an advice just for you don't force it and concentrate in the deliciou...

The expression "world peace", per se , sounds an utopia. This post is to show you why I believe it's not. We live in the creativity era and I started talking about this many years ago. The more the artificial intelligence is developed, the less the society will need men to do jobs requiring physical force (excluding sports as many sports require some creativity). Services with low level of education will be abolished as machines will make them quickly and at a lower cost. The cultural nomad is someone who develops oneself to be open minded, creative, to respect diversity and in ones journey also develop self awareness. The cultural nomadism is different from other models of migration because the reason that guides the nomads to move to a new place are cultural. They want to learn about other cultures. To be open to this is to respect diversity. You know your value and you know the other have value too. This mindset shows the value of qualities human beings have and mac...

Some people see differences between popular culture, erudite culture, subcultures, etc. For me, culture is knowledge, knowledge is richness and to know how a cachaça is produced or how to harmonise alcoholic beverages in an event are as important as to read the biography of Goethe or to know what inspires a composer like Tuomas Holopainen to create songs for his metal band. To visit Italy to see how a "nonna" (grandma) prepares pasta for her family is as important as to dialogue with a famous chef of contemporary cuisine. To know the history of an old Japanese whose parents came to Brazil after war to try a more prosper life is as rich as to visit the Louvre Museum. And so on. I am a nomad for whom culture is never too much. Recently I saw that movie "Visages, Villages" from Agnes Varda and my approach to culture is sometimes like her, talking with people to know their stories. This blog shares parts of my story. Or my stories if we consider I had many lives in ...

Are they different? Yes, I think they are. The bigger point in common is both are comfortable to live in different places. Among the differences we can consider motivation or focus as the bigger ones. The digital nomad possibly focus on his bank account. The cultural nomad wants to enrich his culture. The financial results are part of the game but they alone are not so interesting. As I mentioned as an example in a previous post, I already gave up to celebrate my birthday in Maldives because no one could help me to discover cultural interesting places, foods or events of that country. This is the spirit! The cultural nomad plays as if each new home would have a positive effect in his self-development. As the kind of wood used to mature some alcoholic beverages have some effect to their taste. Nycka, the nomad.

We can move from a place to another for various reasons. One of them is to know better other cultures, to become a global citizen. Other is also cultural, when you move from a place with very limited cultural options to another with more resources on the matter. I experienced both. Culture was and is my fuel. I was born in a middle-sized city in Brazil, called Montes Claros. Once I read a quote from Plato about global citizenship and I desired to be a global citizen. I loved to read, to listen to some music and to see movies - the cultural options more accessible in that city. Some months after I move to Uberlândia - other middle-sized city, bigger than Montes Claros -, I started using the internet. It was 1999. Through Napster (do you remember it?) I discovered music (and advertising videos) from the whole world! I had a teacher who worked renting movies, that time, and she had movies which were not american blockbusters. Can you imagine my happiness walking through those corridors ...

First time I spent (or invested) my money to travel it was to know the Carnival in Janauba, a small brazilian city, a few hours by car from Montes Claros, where I was born. I was 21 then, and my dear friend and colleague Danilo was from that city. Brazilian actor Jackson Antunes, who was called "the brazilian Charles Bronson" when he gained space on national TV, was also born in Janauba. I remember my grandmother was terrified because my brother, 5 years younger, would travel with me and share the same room. If I had the mind of today, I would go alone just to terrify her more. The party was good. Very different from many famous carnivals as Rio, Salvador or Venice, but it was nice. My second experience was to follow brazilian band Shaman, when Andre Mattos left Angra to sing with this band, during the first shows of the Ritual tour. I saw the show in Uberlandia, where I lived, at a pub. The show was my suggestion to David, the owner, one day I met him in front of the pub ...