Food stall owners reach out with menus, calling out their dinner selections like midway prizes

The meal she served was unlike any I had encountered in Vienna, or anywhere else: red seaweed garnished with pickled radishes; black rice noodles and spotted mushrooms boiled in wine, grilled squid stuffed with flying fish roe; and yellow cherries sauteed in butter. The hot bread was laced with cinnamon and paprika. The goat cheese was coated with thyme honey.

The jungle is alive. It’s dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility. – On Starlit Seas

The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for coin as he rasped a haunting melody. Life could not be more perfect. – On Starlit Seas

Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had plummeted into the water and smashed open. Engulfed in darkness, with only a scatter of stars above, the place felt like a bright secret – something ancient and precious. – On Starlit Seas

As your life approaches its end and you look back, wouldn’t it be wonderful to know it was worth downloading.