Once again my bags are packed and I am ready to leave. I’ll spend my last night at the hostel and be off to the airport tomorrow morning. NZ and I never got to terms and my time here was a low in two years of travelling. Yet I reckon a few days in the […]
Glad to leave: Prague
The worst tourist dump ever. The whole old town of Prague seems to exist solely for the purpose of providing a selfie background for intoxicated foreigners. We had found ourselves in the middle of that after arriving in the late afternoon by train from Bratislava. Fortunately the area west across the river was a little […]
Into the West Bank
Left the hostel in Jerusalem in the late morning and took the local bus to Ramallah. Good deal, 8 NIS / 2 EUR for the 40 minute ride. Crossed the wall at one of the checkpoints – fortified like the inner-German border in the 80s. Arrived at the hostel in Ramallah not much later. Everybody […]
Random Kathmandu Impressions
The worst Ride ever
After leaving Phu Quoc, I had a couple of hours in Ha Tien before the bus to Can Tho departed around noon. The first part of the journey led along the Cambodian border up to Chau Doc. The road was a mess and for two hours the minibus basically jumped from one pot-hole to the […]
Going to Palestine
Two questions I got a lot over the past couple of weeks: “Why do you have a painted toe nail?” and “Why do you want to go to Palestine and teach English?”. While the former could only be replied to in a rather vague and obscure way, the latter has a much more straight forward […]