Tenerife in March was exactly the sweet escape I desperately needed. After burning out, getting fired, and filing a lawsuit against my boss, it felt like the ground beneath me was constantly shifting, ...
Inle Lake, 1-2/3/2019 When I think about the night bus ride to Inle Lake two things immediately pop in my mind: the air con set on polar temperatures and the pungent stench of exhaust fumes (imagine ...
Hpa-An, 27-28/02/19 So where was I? Oh yeah, me in bed, 3 AM. Suddenly waking up and rushing to the toilet to throw up the infamous 100 years eggs salad. My stomach must have very much said “hell no, ...
Myanmar was the the country I picked for my first solo big backpacking experience. Why? Basically I wanted to go to South East Asia, making the most of its food culture, safety, nice weather and ...
El Nido, 15-17-18/03/2018 When we left Busuanga Island I was pretty sure we had already seen the best that the Philippines had to offer, at least according to most locals and fellow backpackers… I ...
Busuanga Island, 13/03/2018 There are few times in my life where I couldn’t hide the excitement for what I saw right out of the window on a flight. The first was while flying to the Bahamas, where ...
11-12/03/2018 Bohol Island On the first grey-skied day since we landed in the Philippines, me and Isa left Alona Beach on board of a tricycle to get to Tagbilaran, Bohol’s main hub, determined to ...
07-08-09/03/2018 CEBU ISLAND Polished skyscrapers by the beach, broad boulevards with wax palms, traffic jams, hot weather and feel good music playing at every corner… If it hadn’t been for the ...
“I used to have a client in London, a lady from the Philippines. Knowing that I was a fond traveler, everytime she had an appointment she would interrupt my consult to proudly tell me stories about ...
November 2017, Chittorgarh + Pushkar (India) Fighting against the everlasting food coma that had possessed our bodies since the previous night, me and Isa dragged our backpacks out of our ...
28-29/11/2017, Jodhpur + Ranakpur (India) A mighty fort that towers over a stretch of Brahmin blue rooftops, hundreds little mountains of multihued spices, a tangle maze of uphill and downhill narrow ...
Spending the Xmas holidays with your family when you live abroad is quite a huge privilege (especially when the previous year you were on duty…). This year I managed to fly back to Sondrio, the place ...
Relax, Xmas atmosphere, quietness, nature. What binds these 4 things better than a Scandinavian country? We picked Finland as our destination for a long weekend in December. And it could have not been ...
1 week trip in Iceland (day 7 and 8) Heading west after the terrific aurora borealis show in Holmur. We noticed the bright blue glacier tongue of Svínafellsjökull from the ring road on the 5th day ...
1 week trip in Iceland (day 6) We spent our 5th night in a farm just before Höfn, a fishing village in the south-eastern part of the country, after a quick dinner made of langoustine sandwiches ...