I remember the days traveling around China, pre-google translate and pre-google maps. Getting to your next destination by train meant comparing the caracters you had in your guide book with those on the train schedule. And sure, it happened that one was off just a little bit and I ended up in a very different city than I had intended …
A short blog for you on surfing in Itamambuca, Brazil. Back in my days working at the Belgium-based NGO WeForest, one of the projects I was working on was the Mata Atlantica (the Atlantic Forest) in the state of Sao Paulo, in Brazil. Brazil: despite having lived on and off in Latin America for 9 years, I never managed to …
How to take your bicycle or surfboard on a plane with you?
I remember back in University, one of my teachers told me that her favorite part of Spain was the north. I was rather surprised: not Barcelona? Not the warm and exotic south? But the rainy and chilly north? Didn´t we already have enough of that in the Netherlands? Is there really a paradise to go surfing in Northern Spain? But …
