adventure. stories. people
Explore width emotion, live for the journey
IN PHOTOS - Practical guide to Cinque Terre
HIDDEN GEMS - Tellaro and Portovenere
DOLCE FAR NIENTE - Bellagio, Lake Como
ITINERARY - 18-day North Italy road trip
IN PHOTOS - A safari in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
‘Shouldn’t we close our windows?!? ‘ … Silence… This moment is what we came for. The two lions are standing so close to the jeep we could touch them, but we sense there’s no need to be scared. We aren’t. And neither are they. It’s magical. Welcome to the Serengeti!
EUROPE, I'M GONNA MISS YOU - My favorite hidden gems in Europe
In exactly 7 weeks, I’ll be getting on a plane to Africa. I have no return ticket, no idea about when I’m coming back to Europe and no plan whatsoever. The biggest adventure of my life awaits, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t gonna miss ‘home’ at least a little bit. So today it’s time for a little tribute, to my favorite hidden spots in Europe!
HIGHLIGHTS OF MY HOME COUNTRY - Ghent, Belgium
If you ended up in Ghent as a tourist 20 years ago, you’d probably taken a wrong turn somewhere halfway between Brussels and Bruges, or gotten off the train at the wrong station. But today, Ghent is THE place to be in Belgium, and easily my favorite city!
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE SULPHUR MINERS A journey inside an active volcano at Kawah Ijen, Indonesia
“Just breath slowly in and out and you’ll be fine”. Chong was holding my hand in the pitch black night as I tried to control my breathing. Our dim torches were the only source of light but they were enough to see that his eyes weren’t letting go of mine for even a second. “It’s just like normal breathing and we’re almost there”, he said, with his soft reassuring voice. But it wasn’t… and we weren’t…
BURNOUTS AND NEW BEGINNINGS – Searching myself in Cinque Terre, Italy
It wasn’t just the start of a new trip. Not just another destination to tick off my constantly changing bucketlist. It was much more than 4 days of rushing to get it all in and get back home in time for daily habits waiting for me on the next Monday morning. This time, it was the beginning of a brand new adventure.A way to mark the end of an old one. To say goodbye to that old version of me… and embrace a new one...
