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 […]
People
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 […]
Gerrid Greenwood
It’s been a while since I updated my ‘people’ category. Although I often encounter interesting men, women or families, I often don’t get a chance to get to know them well enough to write about them. Or ask them for their photo or contact details. Like the travelling family I met a couple of days […]
Nina
Our Russian grandmother (Babushka) at Olkhon Island Nina grew up along the Northern part of Lake Baikal. She is Buryat. Buryats are people from the south-east of Russia. Their orignal language, Buryat, is one that is more close to the Mongolian language. It is easy to recognise them, because the Mongolian, more Asian look is […]
People of Sweden
Michaël Randrianaridera I met Michaël on the central station (T-Centralen) in Stockholm at 5 in the morning. I took the Flix night bus from Malmö to Stockholm (I managed to find a ticket for 10 euro, so the fact that I hate overnighters was not that important anymore) and arrived at the bus terminal in […]