It’s been two weeks since I left Namibia. I spent about three weeks there and, just like before, I did not want to leave. But, I had to. Because I was going to …
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My world has never been so small… and I loved it!
For the past four and a half months, I have been living on the island of Texel where my daily life evolved around skydiving and flying. About 99% of my time was spent …
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Free fallin’
My first skydive was a tandem on 9 September 2016 at Ground Rush Adventures, Swakopmund, Namibia. I was hooked and I did another tandem the same day. The following hours and days, I relived …
Pilots: I don’t want to date one, I want to be one!
Since I was a kid, I have been fascinated with aviation and I wanted to become a fighter jet pilot. When my eyesight wasn’t perfect anymore at age 11, this dream faded. Instead, I decided …
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Plot twist!
A little history This is a photo of my apartment in The Hague. I moved here after 4,5 years of living in different countries, moving into a new apartment every (half) year or so and …
Test riding: to Zeeland and beyond (and lessons learned)…
This weekend, I had the pleasure to go on my first bike tour weekend! Since I only had three days off, I decided not to go too far away: Zeeland. My friend Lisa, …
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The worst and best flights of 30+ years of plane travelling
Being born in the Netherlands to parents from Hong Kong meant that I travelled in planes since I was a little baby. I really hope for my fellow passengers that I wasn’t one …
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Alaska to Argentina (by bike!)
And so it begins… I’ve decided to embark on a new journey, a new adventure. Starting in exactly 13 months, I will start biking from Prudhoe Bay (Alaska) all the way down to …
Similan Islands diving trip
I haven’t written in a long time… I decided the first post of the year 2012 should be about the first thing I did in 2012. On New Year’s Day, I was in …
Where are you, Christmas?
It’s one week until Christmas Day. In Bangkok, all shopping malls are filled with Christmas and New Year’s decorations, there is Christmas shopping advertising everywhere and the Christmas songs keep on coming through …
