After my February travels from Brussels to Cologne, Bergamo and Milan I ended up a bit traumatized with flying. It’s been many years since flying gave me a pleasing sensation in the belly, filled me with excitement and bubbles and the past year I just generally try to avoid it. Last year I went from…
Tag: Couchsurfing
An /extra/ordinary place to be
I have now spent almost two weeks bip bopping around the central parts of Iran. Before I came here I was nervous, almost content with the fact that I didn’t have to go if I didn’t really want to. Weighing my options, the possibility of shortening my stay and going back to old familiar roads;…
What’s religion?
My interest in history, the fact that I consider myself a reader, my experiences on the road as well as off the road – this should all be very helpful when it comes to planning my travelling, both to optimise and maximise the experience. But no, I walk around as unknowingly as ever, blissfully ignorant,…
Let’s start from the beginning
So exploring Italy a third time in less than a year? It’s always a charm, that third one. When leaving home I felt a bit nostalgic – is this really the right time to go, what’s to loose, what’s to win? But it’s always quite different once you’re actually there – here! The second the…
Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end
Being alone in a place you don’t want to be on your last day of travelling, after months of happiness and love in the most remarkable settings, paints everything in shades of grey. San José is one of the most unpleasant city I have been in, not to offend any of its inhabitants. Not only…
Travellers travel…. slowly
After leaving the Bosque Village I was excited to be back on the road… all the way to Patzcuaro, merely an hour away! There I ended up staying for three nights, and felt way too comfortable. The city is not too big, but big enough to be interesting. The city centra is more beautiful than…
Life at the Bosque village and the thoughts it produces
The ideal living is supposedly easy, isn’t it? Back to the roots, they say, back to the easy living. Well, life here in the Bosque Village, the permacultural farm which I am currently staying at outside of a small town, Erongaricuaro, is at the present quite calm and carefree. But that’s cause most of the…
The Mexican hospitality
The hum and buzz of a city as huge as Mexico City has even more tonalities than one can imagine. The spread of the city, the core and the suburbs, historical sights, modern shopping, nature closing in while culture is ruling. The City has the highest density of museums in the world, I managed to…
Touch down Edinburgh
Travelling has officially begun, I am now in between my flights, sitting in Charles de Gaulle, Paris waiting to fall asleep and wake up in Mexico. This morning I left my beloved Edinburgh by train to London, and stressed through the tube to Heathrow. The weekend still feels so close it’s hard to be excited…
Social experimenting; the roller derby team, part 2
The actual experience of the lads occupying my floors this weekend was superior to many social experiences I usually have with both friends and strangers. I don’t know if it was the fact that they were travelling in a group of friends (more or less at least!), and therefore felt secure and relaxed, or if…
Travellers Without Borders 