One month to go till my scheduled return to Europe. There is a lot to look forward to, as I hope to see my family and a couple of friends again. Also clean air and non-bursting buses are highly tempting… It’s not all roses and butterflies, though. Over the past weeks I had a couple […]
Leaving, on a jet plane…
15kg total luggage. Can’t believe I’m traveling that light. The half full backpacks constantly made me think I forgot something. Left early and stopped for a coffee at the main station. Sorted my head, went through my documents but it seems I didn’t leave anything important behind. Really happy and excited to go on a […]
Volunteering in Bhaktapur
These days I’m staying with a Newar family in a local residential neighbourhood. The other volunteer and I are about the only white faces you’ll ever see in the streets here, which is just my cup of tea. On my way to work, I come by a smith, a vegetable merchant, a carpenter, a butcher […]
Inland Day Trip
Tuesday morning we were greeted by sunshine and blue sky. After the wet season in the last couple of days we were keen on getting out of the house. Roughly 30km from Airlie Beach are the Cedar Creek Falls and we went to see them. Did I mention the heavy rainfalls during the last weeks? […]
Out
It’s 18:30 last night and the clashes have subsided. We head out to meet others for dinner in the city. A few metres down the road our eyes are watering and the noses are burning from tear gas that is drifting over from the 500m away conflict area. We jump into the next taxi and […]
September and October
Right then, time for a little travel review. As written earlier, the stay on the Balkans was great. So this is mostly about the time after I departed Thessaloniki, the time when things got a bit bumpy. Right after Greece, in Morocco, there were ups and downs. Tangier annoyed the crap out of me while […]