Round the World
Me and my purple Dutch bike Fleur and me outside her and Luiz’s flat I’ve flown around the world. Literally. It’s hard to believe. So far this year… 45,631 miles flown. 14 countries. 22 stops. 40 cities I stayed overnight in. 55 different beds. Longest stay in one place: 13 days in Curitiba, Brazil (besides […]
Market Square in Brugge On the train to Belgium, I noticed that you can choose to sit facing the direction of travel, or looking where the train has just been. This got me thinking: am I a forward- or backward-looking person? Do I spend the majority of my time thinking about the past or looking […]
I’m not one of those people that is on the cutting edge of what’s new and hot in the world. I was never one of the popular kids that everyone wanted to be like. I kinda liked it that way. Who wants all that pressure anyway?! I tend to catch on to things after other […]
I can get excited to get on a train to go to another city for the day or to get on an airplane for a new stamp in the passport- that’s easy. But I also still get excited for the little things- like a cup of coffee in the morning or a bike ride across […]
5:04am. I’m vaguely aware of a noise next to my head. I groggily open my eyes and let out a yelp. With the help of the street light filtering in through the sheer window hanging, I see none other than a little grey mouse on the shelf next to my head, and he’s trying to […]
Oude Kerk (Old Church), Red Light District, Amsterdam This trip could’ve been one big blur, but it wasn’t. If you name a date in the last six months, with the exception of maybe a few days, I could tell you exactly where I was that day and what I did. This round the world trip […]
There’s something wonderfully surprising about going to places you haven’t heard too much, if anything, about, and when they turn out to be amazing, it makes you wonder why more people aren’t talking about them. But there’s nothing like seeing for yourself places you’ve seen in photos your whole life. I was walking down the […]