The hitchhiking Cambodian monk
After a week in Cambodia, I am only mildly surprised by the young hitchhiking monk and halt to let him jump onto my scooter….
Travel stories
More weird food you don’t necessarily have to try!
Some of you might have thought that I had already unveiled all the weird food I have eaten when I published my article 7…
‘Saving Face’ or How I once got drugged so I would stop singing!
Some years ago, when my guitar was still an equally important companion on my travels as my backpack was, I was taught a lesson…
The Tuk Tuk Run – South East Asia on 3 wheels!
So you thought driving through Eastern Europe in junkyard cars was a bad idea? Wait until you hear about the trip we are embarking…
Kazantip with a million break-downs – Eastern Europe in junkyard cars
This is a daily diary of a wacky trip Eastwards with destination Kazantip. Update: Here goes a first trailer for the show! Intro Why…
Jogging in Saigon
The South Vietnamese city Saigon, officially tagged Ho-Chi-Minh-City since the reunification of the two countries in 1975, is a hellhole megalopolis. Eight milion rather…
On a boat through the Ayeyarwaddy Delta – Brackwater, pagodas and hospitality
A wrecked taxi spits me out at the pier on the Ayeyarwaddy. In an instant, I am surrounded by a hord of kids in…
At the Inle Lake: Ghost ride on a water buffalo
Superstition? Sunstroke with hallucinations? Or, after all, something you can’t really find words for? On a day in February in the heart of Burma…
A toast to chocolate – How I once maneuvered the Hershey-Train
Some things really seem meant to happen, the events just magically fall into place. Especially while travelling, these strange chains of events which some…
¡Sí se puede! – Cycling Cuba
Cycling Cuba had been a vague idea for a while, but I had not organized anything. But the first person I met at the…