The idea to volunteer in a refugee camp came out of a certain guilt we both felt. Guilt about taking a polluting flight and shame of being so rich we can just go wherever we want. So to pay off our debt to the world we decided to do something that we both found important […]
Hitchhiking from Belgium to Turkey
Finally! It had been my dream for so long to do a big hitchhiking trip, but I was too scared to do it alone… When I found myself a boyfriend who loves adventures as much (or more) as I do, it didn’t take long to make my dream into a real plan. Our first idea […]
Minimalism
I’ve been wanting to write this blog for months. But you know, life kept me busy. You might think: this is a travel blog, what has minimalism to do with travelling? Well, everything. The first time I got in touch with the concept of minimalism was a few years ago. When I was living in […]
Qatar – A bubble in a desert
Qatar wasn’t exactly on top of my wish list… But my sister had been living in the capital, Doha, for the past year. Since I started travelling right before she left, I hadn’t seen her in over a year. So I figured I could add an a-typical country to my list and see what was […]
Coming home, twice
Coming home, part 1 It took me a while to write about this last part of my trip. Partly because I’ve been super caught up in the coming home process; meeting with friends and family, finding a (temporary) place to live, trying to catch up with some administration, finding a job, working… Next to that […]
My own version of Eat, Pray, Love – Bali
On Bali I stayed in two places, to do absolutely nothing but sleeping, eating, surfing, tanning and snorkeling. The surfing I did in Canggu and the snorkeling in Amed, but the rest of my daily activities were the same. In Amed I stayed at Meditasi Bungalows, where I spent a little more to stay in […]
From Singapore to Jakarta by boat
When I first discovered I could get to Jakarta by boat from Singapore, I was quite excited. But after my stress, panick attacks and tiredness got worse and worse, I wasn’t really looking forward anymore to this journey. I really wanted to finish my travels without taking a plane until Bali but I had the feeling I […]
Making friends part 217
I’ve made so many friends on the road I am starting to forget the names (not the faces!) of the people I travelled with in the beginning. Luckily I foresaw this problem from the start and every week, I would write down the names of the people I met that week in my diary. Up […]
My 12 hour journey from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore
“The only time I regret my decision to not fly” or “Why not flying makes the travelling more real“ I was not sure how to name this post… anyway, I think the title together with the subtitles makes the subject of this blog clear. For those of you who are wondering why I haven’t written about […]
Pa Pae Meditation Retreat & My Mental Breakdown
After I said goodbye to my parents in Chiang Mai, I went to Pai. It’s a small town in the mountains and from what I’d heard a backpacker’s paradise. Although I mostly don’t like places which are made only for tourists, Pai is different. Maybe because it’s not really made for tourists, but at least […]