MarginalPilgrims @MarginalPilgrim

No guidebooks, just thresholds— field notes from Lisbon to Longueuil (and wherever else the bus goes). Travel notes with detours: cities, saints, street food & substack.com/@marginalpilgr… New jersey, USA Joined September 2025

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MarginalPilgrims @MarginalPilgrim

5 days ago

Levity sets the price. Gravity collects the debt. Saudade is the surcharge. The secret law every traveler pays in Lisbon. 👉 Read Part 2: [tinyurl.com/msp9efkm]

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5 days ago

Every city has monuments. But beneath the stone… every city also has a womb. Lisbon leaks milk through cracked pipes, hides its cord underground, and still exacts a price from everyone who enters. 👉 Read Part 2: [tinyurl.com/msp9efkm]

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6 days ago

Every traveler brings their ghosts, their poets, their longings. Venice receives them all, layering memory until even the canals feel like palimpsests. Read the entire Note: tinyurl.com/4hmrpvxk Listen to this palimpsest: tinyurl.com/23e2anec

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6 days ago

"Every description of a city is a description of Venice—" The city we inscribe, and the city that inscribes us back, even as the tide erases our handwriting each night while hostesses explain the entrée to hungry tourists. Follow the Gondola: tinyurl.com/4hmrpvxk

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6 days ago

Venice has digested so many of its imitations it now stands at the exact size of itself— a city corralling your ghosts before you arrive, as if longing were the phantom meeting its Creator. Follow the tide to the full Note: tinyurl.com/4hmrpvxk

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6 days ago

Ithaka by Cavafy As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long…

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MarginalPilgrims @MarginalPilgrim

6 days ago

Hear Sir Sean Connery read Cavafy’s timeless poem: 'Ithaka'. And read my Marginal Pilgrims take on exile, myth & bathroom floods: Full post here: tinyurl.com/d7mxn74b

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6 days ago

Travel isn’t marble ruins or luxury colonics. It’s the human condition recast in new settings— sometimes coffee-fueled walks, sometimes late-night pharmacy trips with your credit card held high. Read the full post here: tinyurl.com/d7mxn74b

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6 days ago

Forget Ithaka! My kid just turned the Airbnb bathroom into a wave pool with the bidet. Pharmacie Jean Coutu—like this rental—was out of paper towels. Read the full post here: tinyurl.com/d7mxn74b