50+ Of My Best Packing Tips for Nomad Travel
So you’re going to travel long-term? Maybe you’ll take a round-the-world trip for a year, or you’ll start your digital nomad adventure. But you have no idea how you’ll be able to live out of a backpack or suitcase for
Myanmar Train Adventures – Slow-going from Inle Lake to Thazi to Yangon
I am a friend of slow travels. Myanmar trains - even the ones on tracks less than 30 years old - are notorious for their slowness. And when I heard about the “Slow Train to Thazi,” meandering at 30 km
Travel To Myanmar – Should I Go To Countries Violating Human Rights?
I write these words from the picturesque shores of Inle Lake in Myanmar. And while I am writing this, there is an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya minority happening a few hundred kilometers from here. After reading several times
Where to 2017?
With 2016 finally drawing to an end, I headed to the beach here in Eilat to think about where I will take what the passing year has left behind in 2017. A quick look back at 2016 As is the case for
Five years — Traveling in times of fear
Today five years ago I was sitting in a restaurant in Timbuktu waiting for lunch while across the city in our hotel Martin was shot dead and Steve, Johan, and Sjaak were kidnapped by a gang associated with the aQIM
Why solo travel is the best and why not traveling alone rocks
Ah, the glam of solo travel! Sunday was yet another Valentine's Day I spent as a single. I was sitting in a nice bungalow on a hill in the Tuscan countryside, surrounded by a dozen dogs, binging on romantic movies
Four years
A year ago I said: I never want or write about this again. But a year has passed and, yes, there have been some good news, but two friends are still missing. So, I'll write about it again, even though
Travel & food stories: Acciuga alla siciliana — When I ate whole fish from Catania Fish Market
The whiff in the air gives it away before I see it. When I find the steps down to the Catania Fish Market market on the Italian island of Sicily, it is almost noon. In the upper part, next to the
In transit, France: Haute-Savoie to Île d’Oléron (via Annecy, Paris & Surgeres)
One thing I've learnt in 18 months of using regional busses across Europe is to always be at the stop a few minutes before the scheduled departure
Happy hopeful — How to be an optimist
In honor of my birthday I was going to muse about travel & age today. But then two things happened that made delving deeper into the idea of being an eternal optimist more appealing. The first thing that happened was that