88 days diaries: Shock and tears
During my travels I’ve met lots of different people. I’ve come across some situations where I felt like I was being pushed around. Somehow people think they can treat you like shit because you are a traveller. I find it hard to deal with this, but sometimes you’ve got to…
Tempting: longing for snow
It’s that time of the year again. The sun’s bright and hot and while others enjoy the beach I start thinking about winter. It’s not that I don’t like the sun, it’s just that I really want to find a cool job for this winter. It’s been a while since…
Photo essay; beaches of WA
Most people think of the East Coast when they think about travelling in Australia. This is especially true for backpackers. However, the West Coast has got so much to offer; the beaches are pristine, the water is blue and it is way less crowded. Cape range national park has got…
Rich as a tsar
Just outside St. Petersburg, past the industrial area, lies Pushkin where the Catherine palace is. As soon as I got off the bus people were trying to sell me things, but there was no time for that. A tour of the palace was waiting. The front of the palace had…
Booking frustrations
Why can booking flights be so stressful? It’s lovely when you don’t care where you’re going and you stumble across a cheap fare and book it in the spur of the moment. It’s less lovely when you know you want to travel on a certain date, because your visa is…
Down into Sesriem Canyon
Namibia is a big country with a lot of natural beauty. Sesriem canyon is a relatively small canyon, compared to for example Fish River Canyon, yet it’s a beautiful place to stop on a roadtrip through Namibia. You might be on your way to the famous dunes in the Sossusvlei,…
88 days diaries: Back to the waterworks
The cherry season was fast approaching, but there was one important thing to finish out in the fields: irrigation. This time I worked with a French backpacker called Ivan. Every day we got a quad bike and a repair kit and were send to work on different areas in the…
Ancient Australian Art
Western society in Australia is young. Australia is filled with modern buildings, its streets wide and accommodating to our current lifestyles. Narrow streets like in the European cities from the middle ages are nonexistent. To me, many buidings lack the character, the charm that I see in the old cities around Europe, but…
Looking back at the 2014 society
The Adelaide Fringe Festival is still going strong. We’re about halfway through so I’m trying to find the shows worth seeing in the last two weeks. Yesterday I decided to opt for something a little different: a comedy walking tour through the city center. We were welcomed by a penguin…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned
In Quorn, South Australia, they’ve kept old farm equipment in an open air museum/park. Instead of destroying them, they left them behind on an empty piece of land, accessible to anyone who’s interested.