I continue to meet people who are in need of information or tips on how to travel in Europe. Mostly, the question is how to travel on a low budget when already inside Europe. Below I will give some tips and links, but this is all very general and if you for example want to [...]

1. Top 5 travel mobile phone applications

Yesterday was the last day of the Dahab Festival. This is a one week event with two festivals taking place at the same time, the Dahab International Festival of Water Sports, Culture and Desert Adventure and the Dahab Bedouin Festival. The idea of them both are to make the tourists come back to Sinai/Dahab, but instead [...]

1. Dahab sunrise
2. Sharm El Sheikh to Dahab
3. Scuba diving in Dahab
4. Disasterpeace psytrance festival near Cape Town, South Africa
5. Festival of Virgen del Rosario in Fuengirola

In the BBC documentary “A farm for the future” it is discussed about the oil shortage that will occur in our very near future. Today, the way we are living are incredibly depending on oil and the way this will effect us mostly is that the food prices will go up very fast when the [...]

The carnival here lasted for one whole month and still i realized now that i didn’t write a single word about it in the blog. Although I liked it one month is more then enough, so I was happy when it finally ended. The carnival parties were mostly focused to the weekends at the Santa Catalina square, [...]

1. Price examples from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
2. Gran Canaria & backpacking
3. Gran Canaria to Tenerife
4. How to get NIE on Gran Canaria, Spain
5. Festival of Virgen del Rosario in Fuengirola

I am just back in Gran Canaria after spending a weekend in Tenerife. I had a great time and really enjoyed Tenerife which is more green than Gran Canaria, both in the main city Santa Cruz de Tenerife and in the nature. One of the interesting things that happened to me was when trekking with a friend [...]

1. 5 days of improvisational travel
2. How to get NIE on Gran Canaria, Spain
3. Gran Canaria & backpacking
4. 40 hours in Ponta Do Ouro
5. Gibraltar pictures

After about two weeks here on Gran Canaria (in the Canary Islands, Spain) I have found a really nice apartment just 50 meters from the ocean and beach/surfing. Before that I was living on a hill with very nice view but not within walking distance to everything, which is really important when living in a [...]

When living in a new country I always try to blend in with the locals as much as possible. This is of course impossible sometimes depending on different things, like looks and language. When I started travel I was trying to learn all the languages that I came across, but soon realized this is too [...]

I have tried several flight bonus programs over the years in my search to find even cheaper flights. Because I fly a lot, if I believed the flight companies commercials, I should get several benefits if I join their bonus programs. Let’s look at their claimed benefits one at a time: Free flights Let’s say [...]

1. Kruger park pictures (+ bonus)

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

For the last 10 years I have gave money to different kinds of charities. Some year ago I found Kiva (thanks to my mother), an organization which allows you to easily do microloans to a big part of the world where it is really needed. The website gives you opportunity to browse through the database [...]