I just came back from my first time in South America! The 5-year programme I am working on is being implemented in Asia and Latin America. We had the Asia workshop in Thailand …
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Wandergreed
Eight years ago, I went on my first backpacking trip through seven Southern African countries in six weeks. I particularly loved Botswana and Malawi. People told me that if I love Botswana, I would …

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 …

Stories from Southern Africa – part four: South Africa & Lesotho
So much has been going the weeks before I left Thailand and since I arrived in Cambodia… So now, from a balcony in Phnom Penh, I gather the motivation to write up the …
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Stories from Southern Africa – part two: Zambia & Malawi
Last time, I wrote about South Africa and Botswana. I’ll continue with Zambia. Zambia The plane landed in Livingstone, Zambia, and I got to my hostel where the South African guy I met …
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Stories from Southern Africa – part one: South Africa & Botswana
South Africa The port of entry and exit for my 2008 Southern Africa solo backpacking trip was Johannesburg, South Africa. It is known as one of the most dangerous cities in the world, …
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Stories from Southern Africa
So, I have been told I talk about Africa a lot. I think it confuses people, so I thought I will just write it all down in this blog in new section called …