If I have learned one thing with all my travels it would probably be how important it is to get local friends in the country where you are staying. Not because of the social factor, but to really understand a place you need to understand the people, and to see how they are living their [...]

1. Photographing the roma people of Serbia
2. The importance of backup plans
3. The mathematics of running into people again
4. Comparison of Berlin areas

After living in Berlin for 1+ month I had to move to another apartment when the owner was coming back to the room I rented. Even though I really liked living in that apartment, not only because of the people living there but also because of the location, this gives me an interesting opportunity to [...]

1. The last weeks in a country
2. Climbing in Berlin
3. Nation Of Gondwana
4. The Sacromonte caves in Granada
5. Sofia -> Istanbul

Sometimes things just come to you when you wish for them. One recent example is that I really wanted to visit Ras Muhammad one more time before leaving Egypt in about a week from now. What happened to me was, one morning a girl I met the day before called me and asked me to [...]

1. Scuba diving in Ras Muhammad & SS Thisselgorm
2. Scuba dive computer guide
3. Divemaster in Dahab, Egypt
4. Happiness
5. Dahab festival

Yesterday I did one of the best scuba diving ever in my Life. The day started with getting up at 3 o’clock in the morning to get a 2 hour minibus to Sharm El-Sheikh. From there, we took a boat 3 hours to SS Thisselgorm, in the outskirt of Ras Muhammad. Thisselgorm is a 126 [...]

1. Scuba diving in Gran Canaria
2. Scuba diving in Dahab
3. Scuba dive computer guide
4. Scuba diving & whale sharks in Tofo, Mozambique
5. Divemaster in Dahab, Egypt

I meet people almost every week that I fall in love with. It can be very chilled out relaxed people, or people with interesting life goals and missions, or just very individual people that are fun to be around. At the same time as I am very greatful for the chance to meet all these [...]

1. Brainfood Soundsystem

While doing a short backpacking trip I met a girl who was currently working at a hostel in Puerto de Mogan on Gran Canaria. She told me she is travelling the Waltz lifestyle, doing pottery. This means people who have studied at least 3 years of handicraft then leaves the country and travels around the [...]

Yesterday I met a traveler that just arrived to Tarifa a few hours earlier. This 26 year old guy from Holland, Stefan Le Belle, told me that he is walking from the most southern point of Europe’s mainland, which is here in Tarifa, to the North-Cape in Norway. He is doing this both as an adventure [...]

1. Microloans made easy – Kiva

Last week I was in Serbia to take photographs for an article about the roma people living there. This was a great experience which included meeting a lot of interesting people who was living in these camps or trying to help them. The main problem the Roma people in Serbia has today is that they [...]

1. The mathematics of running into people again

For the last week I have been traveling and meeting people so I’m a little bit late with the postings in this blog. Anyway, one week ago I went to Granada (on my path Torrevieja -> Granada -> Fuengirola -> Madrid -> Sofia). I was supposed to meet and stay at one CouchSurfers place, but [...]

1. Trekking in fog, rain & thunder
2. Things can change quickly
3. Carthaginians and Romans festival in Cartagena
4. Stormy Torrevieja
5. Improvised weekend full of adventures

It’s the last day here in Torrevieja and I’m thinking back to all the people I have met here. A lot of them I have met in my favorite pub and the rest I have invited to that place instead. This place is like my second living room and is very relaxed with great and [...]