You probably know the feeling: You are traveling on the backstreets of a so-not-touristy place, and feel wonderfully worldly. But there is always a flaw to that scene, if you can’t read the sig...
What better way to explore a country than by living with the locals! And if you travel to Italy, you can even do that for a few days and everywhere you plan to go in the land of pasta, style and mama...
If you plan a trip to Scotland, you probably think Edinburgh first, the Scotish capital. But her little sister, Glasgow, is definitely worth a day trip and can be reached easily by train from Edinbur...
Sarah Macdonald writes in this book about her adventures of living two years India. As colourful as the books’ cover are her experiences in New Delhi and many other parts of the country, rangin...
The main goal of my trip to Oxford was to visit friends, but it turned out that the city is not too bad either…in fact, it is pretty darn good and worth so much more than just a day trip. If you trav...
To all travel writers, here’s another great opportunity to get your work published! The Next Great Storyteller is a way for National Geographic Traveler and Matador Network to discover new tale...
I am not sure if I ever said that before, but I am a big, big fan of trains. I never owned a car in my life and feel anything but comfortable flying – so trains became my natural mode of transp...
This is for all travel writers out there: Matador Network started a publishing project and released its first book “no foreign lands” last year. In 2012 they plan to publish two more book...
I know that most of my posts here are about traveling abroad or trips in Belgium. But today I felt like I had traveled to another continent while being just 20 minutes away from home; so I thought I ...
With a rather big trip planned this summer (check 2vagabondsandayak.wordpress.co m to read about my drive to Mongolia), I knew that the rest of 2012 would be more about getting work done and a little ...
Today’s post is short and pretty…I stumpled upon this article this morning and thought that it summerizes all the reasons why we should go out there and travel so wonderfully that I have ...
For years I have been convinced that there is only one luggage option for when you take the train for a long distance: the backpack! I got my first 50l backpack when I was 16 and that was in the days...
As you might have read in my earlier post, I checked out some christmas markets in December to get in a jolly mood. My first stop was the market in Aachen in Germany, right on the border with Belgium...
You might have noticed that I wrote here already a little bit about my probably biggest travel adventure ever that is coming up…the Mongol Rally 2012. Now that the preparation work is picking u...
I promised you a post about my short trip to Lithuania and Latvia…so here it is! In five days I visited the capitals of both countries, traveling between them by bus. Now, that sort of schedule...
After we had decided to join next year’s Mongol Rally, we went heads on in the preparations. The first step was to find a name for our team (our car will obviously get a name as well, but as we...
You can travel in many shapes and sizes: short weekend trips, package vacations on the beach or backpacking through an undiscovered foreign country. I decided today to embark on a very special type o...
When I grew up I was constantly convinced that what ever I liked to do at that particular point of time would be my favorite thing FOR-EVER! And I guess that part of that believe was grounded in the ...
Salut, Selon moi, il est super important de protéger notre environnement. C’est notre avenir qui en dépend! Les gens doivent gens doivent agir et pas seulement les individus, mais aussi les gro...
Ever thought how great it would be to travel all the time and being able to work along the way, to have some cash flowing in for the next plane ticket? I am still trying to land a location independan...
Paris is the city of love and lights, where everyone seems to be beautiful and rainy afternoons are considered not “bad weather” but “romantic”. Well since my last visit Paris...
There are places where you feel, you belong…for me that place is Berlin! Every time I come here, I really wish I would not have to go back to a hotel but could live there actually. And one part...
The best way for me to get ready for the next trip is to read travel stories about the places I go. One author that amazed me with his writing over and over again is Cees Nooteboom and I thought othe...
In about nine weeks it’s that time of the year again!! Right, Christmas! And that means weeks of muled wine, candied apples and christmas decoration. I truely love christmas markets and made it...
For everyone that is the first time in London, your list of must-sees it probably all well filled with your classic Big Ben-London Tower-Tower Bridge and Tate. But one place that is often forgotten o...
I have to say that I am in general a lover of contemporary art and try to explore museums and exhibitions of contemporary art where ever I go. So, it came a bit as a surprise to myself as well, when ...
Many visitors come to Belgium to focus on the great tradition of beer brewing here. Not to say that that is completely without good reason, but Belgium has another high-percentage drink that you shou...
The not so obvious beauties are often the most striking ones. That is definitely true for les Marolles. Many guide books call this area of Brussels run-down but I believe that it is actually one of t...
About four years ago, I realized that in order to see all the places in the world that I want to, I had to take a strategic approach to my travels…and I came up with a travel rule, which is tha...
Some of you might have already seen my photos of the Belgian coast in the Photography section. What you didn’t see there is that I actually travelled between Knokke and Oostende with a tram, th...
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