Reality Can Wait

Friday, July 31st 2026  — 
 Food StoriesMarcoRest

After spending last week sick, surviving several anomalies, and somehow making yesterday’s bizarre trip to Azuma, I made an executive decision this morning:

No adventures today.

I went to Emily Resort, swam until my muscles stopped complaining, ate an unreasonable amount of good food, rested by the water, and let the spa attempt repairs that modern medicine had apparently overlooked.

For once, no doors opened into another reality. No animals behaved suspiciously. No stranger whispered that only I could save their world.

Just swimming, food, sleep, warm water, and the rare luxury of reality minding its own business.

Should the multiverse collapse today, it will have to leave a message.

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I have returned from a very pleasant long weekend at Emily Resort, although “returned” may be an overly optimistic description of my present circumstances.

I had planned a calm Thursday.

After several days of being sick and barely eating, which for me is not so much an illness as a temporary collapse of civilization, I finally felt well enough for my first walk outside. Since returning to food after such a period requires caution, wisdom and at least the appearance of self-control, I decided to start small with a quick lunch and went to 1708 Pizza di Napoli on Krakivska Street, 1.

The Soup Struck Back
Tuesday, July 28th 2026
 AnomalyFood StoriesMarcoMedical

I spent the last several days in bed at the !FEST Hotel in Lviv with a fever, muscle pain, vomiting and the complete inability to eat.

I had to leave Lviv this morning.

Tuesday began with a new café.

Lunch at Burachok
Monday, July 20th 2026
 AelenaFood StoriesMarco

Met Aelena for lunch today at Burachok.

The Aisle Between Aisles
Monday, July 13th 2026
 AnomalyLvivMarco

Monday evening in Lviv.

I am back in Lviv.

I woke up at lunch today, which sounds lazy until you understand that yesterday involved a bus from Suceava, border queues, too little sleep, too many bags, and the specific kind of human misery that only international travel by road can produce.

Yesterday evening, I arrived in Salzburg by car, which sounds elegant until you remember that Europe has recently decided to become a bakery oven with borders.

Bled, Slovenia
Saturday, June 27th 2026
 BramaClovisMarcoMultiverseTravel

As expected, my holiday ended this morning.

It turns out that disappearing for almost a week inside a planet-sized theme park is surprisingly easy.

This morning, I made the terrible mistake of reading my messages.

I was still in Rovinj this morning.

Five Quiet Days in Rovinj
Wednesday, June 17th 2026
 AftermathExhaustedMarcoTravel

After the Budapest and Zagreb incidents, I finally did something I almost never do.

The Burek Situation
Thursday, June 11th 2026
 Field NotesFood StoriesMarcoTiredTravel

I arrived in Zagreb late last night by bus, carrying one backpack, three suspicious receipts, and absolutely no desire to discuss the Budapest incident.

I woke on Wednesday morning with the unpleasant certainty that Tuesday had really happened.

The professor still had not called.

The good news is that I arrived in Budapest alive.

There are two kinds of messages you never want to receive on a quiet morning.

I had done everything correctly.

Call Failed
Friday, June 5th 2026
 MarcoTravel

Today, thankfully, looked like a calm day. No tall tusked accountants demanding receipts for crimes committed in parallel tax years. No bass-world where everyone communicates by techno music. Just a civilized plan: breakfast at the Ibis, yes, even after yesterday’s heroic overeating, then coffee, possibly coffees, lemonade, possibly lemonades, more food at Kava z Molokom, then Svit Kavy, then Kredens, because apparently my mission today was to prove that one man can become a walking café loyalty program. And while I sit here pretending this is a normal day, let me tell you about my roaming issues. I have many Earth SIM cards, collected through practical necessity and suspicious border decisions, and one of them is Bulgarian.

I began the morning at the Ibis breakfast buffet in Lviv with the kind of discipline normally associated with collapsing empires.

I am writing this from a laptop balanced on a table that is alive, mildly offended, and trying to crawl toward a sunny patch on the floor.

One of the more common complaints I receive, both from friends and from readers, is that I tend to disappear.

Back in Lviv.

I was sent to Lutsk for the weekend because, according to Clovis, there was “minor temporal leakage around a major medieval structure.”

Friday morning found me doing something extremely dangerous.

People keep imagining “first contact with a newly opened Earth” as sleek silver corridors, dramatic diplomatic speeches, me in some sort of fitted tactical coat looking mysterious against a sunset.

After my last post briefly mentioned the duck incident, many of you asked me to explain what actually happened, which is fair, because “duck incident” is not the kind of phrase a responsible organization should leave unexplained.

Another two weeks gone.

I am finally back in Lviv.

We reached Kraków late, delayed at the border in the slow, familiar way that begins with routine questions and ends with someone quietly deciding to take a closer look at everything.

I did not expect to meet a king in Lviv.

I finally have a moment to write.

I woke up before sunrise, which already told me the day wouldn’t be easy. The room was quiet, dim, the kind of silence that comes before something moves again. For a few seconds I forgot where I was, then the concrete walls and distant hum brought it back. Sumy. Our time. Not the warm hall, not the laughter, not the wine.

An Easter Between Worlds
Tuesday, April 14th 2026
 AelenaField NotesMarcoTravelWorld

I wanted a calm Easter. Just once. Sleep a bit longer, find some quiet place in Lviv, eat something simple, maybe even enjoy the day like a normal person. No fractures in reality, no strange doors, no emergencies. Just peace.

Dinner with Aelena yesterday turned out… better than I expected.

I am writing this from Kava z Molokom, with crumbs of cinnamon bun on the table and a cappuccino that I already regret ordering only in a single cup. But I should start from the morning, because this day deserved to be written properly.

I noticed her the moment I walked into Kredens on Valova, which already tells you something was wrong, because usually with things like that there’s a delay, a polite buffering from reality while your brain decides whether to accept what it’s seeing. This time there was no delay. Just a clean, immediate certainty that something in the room did not fully belong to it.

I should have known better than to relax after yesterday.

I wasn’t planning to write tonight.

I almost had a second calm day.

I did not plan to spend today like this.

I had planned a quiet day in Lviv, the kind where nothing bends, loops, or quietly tries to reinterpret your existence. That was my first mistake.

I am writing this from a chair that I am reasonably sure belongs to Bohdan.

I arrived in Kosiv just after morning had decided to commit to being a proper day. The mountains were clearer than expected. No dramatic fog, no ominous stillness. Just that quiet Carpathian calm that makes you briefly think everything is fine. It wasn’t.

I still insist that the evening in Sarajevo ’84 in Ljubljana was not gluttony.