London has always been one of my favorite cities. Just being there makes me feel slightly happier. The street names, lots of them with a meaning of their own like Abbey road, Oxford street, Regent street, Bond street. The known busses, the famous underground sign, the public telephone booths. London is immediately recognizable. This visit [...]
Summer came, and summer is almost gone now. I have been quite busy and so neglected my blogging commitment. Here to make it right is a post about this wonderful summer. During this summer I had two major vacations. Two weeks in Berner Oberland, Switzerland, and a week in Israel out of which 3 days [...]
¶ NS hike
My feet hurt. Bad. I needed to get that out of the way. Now for the fun Part. The dutch railway have a hiking project. They have set up hiking routes that start, and end in their stations. The initiative is good. It offers people with little experience in hiking and/or people with no car [...]
Last weekend, the weekend of passover I went snowboarding Austria with some friends. I was afraid I wont manage to go snowboarding this year, making it the third year in a row. Luckily this weekend came along. As I posted before I finally got around to buying my own board and I was looking forward [...]
Om het communicatie was flotter te maken en te zorgen dat we met als groep kunnen communiceren maak ik hier ff een blog post over de wintersport plannen voor komenden passen weekend. Gebruik de comments om wat informatie to te voegen of te reageren. Ik zou beginnen. Het is tot nu to niet gelukt om [...]
It has been a while since I blogged, but as we are in Phuket at the moment and the sun calls I will just write a quick update. We spent 10 days in Malaysia, visiting Georgetown (Penang) and Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia proved to be a very interesting place mainly because of the people. Malaysia has [...]
Gallery has been updated with pictures from Phnom Phen to Malaysia. Enjoy
Bangkok, Thailand, back where people are nice, and the food is good. Or so we had thought as we woke up. We headed towards the Grand Palace and the Temple of the Emerald Buddha. Being the responsible travellers that we are, we stopped in front of the palace to put on long pants and long [...]
Our last day in Siem Reap we went to the floating village. The place is an interesting place and some proof of human adaptation. The lake, in which the village floats, has a huge difference in water level between the seasons. To compensate for this houses were built on bamboo rafts so they move with [...]
There are few places in the world who’s name alone is inspiring. The Angkor Wat is definitely one of those places. After spending 3 days there I can completely understand why. Angkor, the old capital of the Khmer empire is a huge complex. Its about 40 km from the north most temple ruins to the [...]