Henk van Dillen

Life lessons from a year adventure cycling

May 30, 2019

One day I realized that I would make a year long travel journey in my life. What and why I didn’t know exactly. The incredibly good feeling I got from reading travel stories was sufficient for that. Whether it was…

Stories from my diary #2 – Xingjiang

May 19, 2019

Stories from my diary is a series of articles from my cycling journey from Rotterdam to Singapore. In this series I share stories from my diary that I kept daily. I was on the road for a year from 2…

Stories from my diary #1 – the starting point

May 10, 2019

Why opening yourself up to cultures is so important

February 12, 2019

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

January 5, 2019

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

December 28, 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

December 17, 2018

“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

December 9, 2018

In this article you’ll find 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…

Not too far to the left and not too far to the right

November 12, 2018

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

October 30, 2018

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,…

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My 2019 in review

Life lessons from a year adventure cycling

Stories from my diary #2 – Xingjiang

Stories from my diary #1 – the starting point

Why opening yourself up to cultures is so important

Long live adventurous people in their 30s

This was 2018

A bicycle adventure in Campanula

Advice from a long distance cyclist who has been traveling the world for seven years

Not too far to the left and not too far to the right

Freedom in the mountains

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