Tarcania
Discover the land where Tarot comes alive
If you’ve ever been to Tarcania, you always want to come back…
But getting to Tarcania is not easy. Only a few people have been allowed to visit this magical land.
Bobbie was one of those chosen ones and she told me about it when we met in a café in Cairo in 1989.
A few years later Bobbie left me her diaries and this is her story about her journey to Tarcania…
Tarcania
By ‘chance’, Bobbie had to make an emergency landing after a storm on one of her journeys and reached Tarcania.
She was only able to save a few things: her diaries, a compass and a Tarot deck that she had bought in a bazaar in Cairo just a few weeks earlier. The cards immediately fascinated Bobbie and she took them everywhere with her.
You can perhaps imagine her astonishment when she realised that Tarcania was home to Tarot – literally…
Your travel companions
Bobbie von Falkenstein
I am Roberta von Falkenstein, but everyone just calls me Bobbie.
I have always loved to travel, and whenever I explored new countries, I felt drawn to hidden sacred places where I could sense the past and its magic.
Even as a child, I was fascinated by ancient rituals, magic, and mysticism. It was the old cultures, especially Egypt, that captured my imagination.
I was grateful that I had the opportunities to travel and was able to pursue my passion.
By “chance,” I found my way to Tarcania.
Even as I grew older, I remained restless, and in 1989, I met Ivana at the Fishawi Café in Cairo.
Ivana Drobek
Like Bobbie, one of my passions is travelling, and in 1989, I visited Egypt for the first time.
In Cairo, I met Bobbie. She was sitting alone in a café, and when I looked up from my Karkade, a hibiscus tea, our eyes met. We smiled at each other, and she waved me over.
That’s how our friendship began, even though decades layed between us.
When Bobbie passed away a few years later, she left me her notes about Tarcania, asking me to share them when the time felt right. That time is now.
Once again, I find myself sitting in the Fishawi Café in Cairo, where I met Bobbie all those years ago. I’m reading her stories and making notes on my laptop.
Let’s explore Tarcania together.
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