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11 april 2013 | Door: Geiske

Chasing dreams

How do you reduce hours into mere instants? The question we office workers all silently whisper to our respective windows a little too often. The answer’s easy: go traveling. The past year felt as if time slipped through without even passing. ...

Buenos Aires - Argentinië

8 april 2013 | Door: Geiske

Please advise me, my reader

This entry no self mockery or chilling adventures, but a serious request to you. There is this grant for writing travel stories. It'll be two weeks of clinics by experienced writers, all of this in Beijing... what a dream! As I love writing and am ...

Buenos Aires - Argentinië

6 april 2013 | Door: Geiske

Where are you, friends?

Sharply contrasting all happy nature feelings, we sometimes get an unnerving reality check on the risks involved with loving the outdoors. Here follows the story of what happened last Monday. Hope turning into worries Late Sunday afternoon, ...

Cochamó - Chili

23 maart 2013 | Door: Geiske

On homelessness

In Australia and New-Zealand my tent came to be my portable house. With camping being infinitely less frequent in South America, I needed to fill the vacancy. The candidates at hand: the long distance bus and the hostel dorm. Although the bus ...

Santiago de Chile - Chili

19 maart 2013 | Door: Geiske

Starbucks

I arrived at a sad point in my life. This morning I unthinkingly grabbed the Nescafe jar and prepared myself my morning coffee. And realized a lifestyle upgrade was called for. Mismatched food, paper dry skin, or bedbugs are all doable. But no ...

Santiago de Chile - Chili

14 maart 2013 | Door: Geiske

Shortlisted for my favorite place in the world

Descriptive nature posts are not my strongest point. But after four days of driving through one stunning landscape after the other, I feel the need to share those beautiful experiences with you. So here go my two finger tablet typing skills. Enjoy ...

Uyuni - Bolivia

11 maart 2013 | Door: Geiske

A timely mess at midnight

I thought Australia's time zone management was a mess. With every state doing as it pleases, half an hour lapses included. Wrong! That was all before I collided head first with the twists of Chilean daylight saving. And of course it happened at the ...

Santiago de Chile - Chili

7 maart 2013 | Door: Geiske

Dirtbaging, desert style

No doubt about it. My tourist lifestyle was adding up to loosing too much strength and gaining too many kilos. There could only be one solution. Dirtbag time! Recently having crossed from bumpy Bolivia onto the Chilean asphalt of San Pedro de ...

San Pedro de Atacama - Chili

26 februari 2013 | Door: Geiske

Where is the love?

Traveling is not all rose scent and moon shine, as we say in Holland. So before you all quit your jobs and follow in my footsteps, there are some things you must know about. Read on. Culture shocked after all Prime grievance: I really don't ...

Tupiza - Bolivia

21 februari 2013 | Door: Geiske

Carnaval after all

Feeling the 3800+ meter altitde, I dragged myself uphill, in the general direction of Copacabana's (not the Brazilian one!) famous church. As I crossed kiosks after tourist shop after internet cafe, I suddenly got hit by a crackling wall of noise. ...

Copacabana - Bolivia

19 februari 2013 | Door: Geiske

Flying down the Death Road (sorry Mom)

The Death Road. 3500 altitude meters of downhill mountainbiking. Also knows as ´The world´s most dangerous road´. But after having lived in Pakistan, I have no choice but to beg to differ on that one. And that´s not the only reason. The road is ...

La Paz - Bolivia

16 februari 2013 | Door: Geiske

Turning a bling eye on the smugglers' route

It's not that I object to the bus' airconditioning being broken. I actually prefer traveling without being chilled to the bone. But the entire ventilation system is pushing it. Especially when ambient temperatures rise above 38 C. And it's raining ...

La Paz - Bolivia

13 februari 2013 | Door: Geiske

Hospital floors and the mother of all waterfalls

An amazing dream of beaches and rocks and sun and happiness unfolded itself inside my closed eyelids. Until a voice came from far away, and I became vaguely aware of lying on the white tiled hospital floor. And about five people bending over me. It ...

Parati - Brazilië

4 februari 2013 | Door: Geiske

How many cachoeiras can one take?

How many cachoeiras can one take? Crucial fact #1 When touristing around Brazil, thou shalt visit every single cachoeira (waterfall) around. Who needs architecture or ethnic ceremonies after all?! So after having ticked off all of Ouro Preto's ...

Serro - Brazilië

27 januari 2013 | Door: Geiske

"Good people go to heaven, physicists go to hell"

- What is your education? - I'm a physicist. - Ah, you are going to hell! That was about the last response I expected from the pitch-black man with the smiling eyes. Well, maybe he misunderstood my patchwork Portugese, I thought, and added: - ...

Ouro Preto - Brazilië

22 januari 2013 | Door: Geiske

Everything is not what it seems

The lady gestured in the general downward direction. Following her gaze we found ourselves looking down an abandoned, ill-lit street. A feeling of slight alarm slithered from my stomach up to my throat. - Is it safe? - Safe? - You know, safe to ...

Ouro Preto - Brazilië

7 januari 2013 | Door: Geiske

If we ain't got it, you don't want it

Petropolis, oh Petropolis No! NO! Leave Petropolis? Why gringas? Why? Surely no other place is a match for beautiful Petropolis! Our inquiries were met with looks of utter incomprehension. The unbelieving blinking that said: no, this must be a ...

Petrópolis - Brazilië

3 januari 2013 | Door: Geiske

My 24 hours bucket list for Rio de Janeiro

1. Fall asleep in a bar - done, woke up on top of the roof, under a mango tree 2. Get harrassed by an unknown Brazilian - done, within the first hour, as the cab driver tried to kiss me full on the mouth 3. Get yourself mugged - done, piece of ...

Rio de Janeiro - Brazilië

29 december 2012 | Door: Geiske

Thing we don't like to see

Such as a man dragging you're backpack over the concrete slabs, while your airplane's already on the runway. But then again, this is Argentina. So two hours later my bag happily showed up in Buenos Aires. For those of you who lost track: I'm mid-way ...

Buenos Aires - Argentinië

25 december 2012 | Door: Geiske

Accidental and non-accidental mountain meetings

Suddenly, after staring at a grey-white blanket for days on end, the clouds lifted. And I understood what the fuss was about. They were all there: Cerro Torre, Fitzroy, Guillaumet, Poincenot, Saint-Exupéry, the whole lot. Towering high above the ...

El Chaltén - Argentinië

World Trip - Part 2

After two months suspension, the World Trip finally continues. Destination South America. For five months of exploration, new experiences, and unexpected twists of fate.

Recente Reisverslagen:

11 April 2013

Chasing dreams

08 April 2013

Please advise me, my reader

06 April 2013

Where are you, friends?

23 Maart 2013

On homelessness

19 Maart 2013

Starbucks

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European Escapades

11 Januari 2014 - 02 Februari 2014

A Spanish intermezzo

05 November 2012 - 08 April 2013

World Trip - Part 2

05 Februari 2012 - 30 Augustus 2012

World Trip - Part One

04 Juli 2010 - 28 September 2010

China

Chasing dreams

Please advise me, my reader

Where are you, friends?

On homelessness

Starbucks

Shortlisted for my favorite place in the world

A timely mess at midnight

Dirtbaging, desert style

Where is the love?

Carnaval after all

Flying down the Death Road (sorry Mom)

Turning a bling eye on the smugglers' route

Hospital floors and the mother of all waterfalls

How many cachoeiras can one take?

"Good people go to heaven, physicists go to hell"

Everything is not what it seems

If we ain't got it, you don't want it

My 24 hours bucket list for Rio de Janeiro

Thing we don't like to see

Accidental and non-accidental mountain meetings

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