Henk van Dillen

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,…

Love and family

August 27, 2018

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…

Why I wanted to cycle in Russia

April 15, 2018

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…

The end on the North Cape

March 13, 2018

I can’t quite realize it. How normal the snow has become. How normal it is to cycle in -10 degrees celcius with the idea of that being a mild temperature. That I slept in temperatures between -25 and -30 degrees…

Cycling the arctic in Norway [PHOTOS]

March 10, 2018

Immediately after I crossed the border I noticed that Norway is a comfortable country to cycle compared to Russia. Cars see me, they slow down and then almost hit the road barriers on the other side of the road. People…

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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

Love and family

Why I wanted to cycle in Russia

The end on the North Cape

Cycling the arctic in Norway [PHOTOS]

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