Why opening yourself up to cultures is so important
In an unappetizing way, I eat a noodle dish with chopsticks. I still wonder how you can eat noodles with chopsticks in a normal way. Next to the bowl of noodles is a knife and a fork. I can also…
Long live adventurous people in their 30s
I’m in my thirties. And yes, I also researched the internet in search of the right life spirit of a thirty-something. My advice is to not do that but instead just follow your heart. But you don’t get any wiser…
This was 2018
Looking back at a year full of discovery, learning and experience. 2018 was a year with many highs and lows. I was ambitious in order to have a full time job and still doing a journey of a month in…
A bicycle adventure in Campanula
“We play here every day, usually an hour or two in the afternoon. Six days a week, but not on Sundays.” Explains Jan from the Jue de Boules Association called Onderhands in Harmelen. Directly in the center of the village…
Advice from a long distance cyclist who has been traveling the world for seven years
Nigel is 62 and has been cycling around the world for seven years now. It all started in 2011 when he changed his life in Australia for a life on a bicycle. Seven years later he is riding through Rotterdam.…
Not too far to the left and not too far to the right
This article is written for the Wereldfietser, a Dutch magazine full of stories, interviews and travel reports about traveling by bicycle. A long way stretches in front of me. Left and right I see as far as I can forests…
Freedom in the mountains
From out of my pocket I take a look at my smartphone to see if I’m on the right metro line. I travel from station Teatre a Shar to Tajrish in Tehran. There is a man in front of me,…
Love and family
It has been four months since I wrote my last article. My website still shows all the white from the arctic snow photos. Not that I have been quiet or lazy the last months, designing a magazine and publishing it…
Cycling on ice is out!
Scroll down to directly order the ebook. Or read here the preface. Traveling is something beautiful. Traveling by bicycle is the perfect way for me to really relax. In this way I can enjoy the just being part of life.…
Why I wanted to cycle in Russia
In the summer of 2015 I was in Farg’ona in Uzbekistan. I had a conversation with a lady who wanted to study in Russia. She said that the Uzbeks didn’t really like the Russian influence in their country. They were…
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