Is there any destination as great as London? I think not. But hey, I’m biased: I lived there, and still visit two or three times a year. I never understood people that were in love with London: it isn’t as…
Rome is the dream destination of almost every city enthusiast: combine gorgeous ancient buildings with Italian cuisine, add some sunshine and is there really any destination that can top that?! Last year I visited Rome with my mom. I had…
I don’t think I have ever received as many questions about any of my itineraries, as I did when I traveled Andalusia! Which is not so strange of course: Andalusia is a pretty magical place! The dry terracotta-colored landscapes with striking white villages…
What if you decide on a Thursday that you want to leave this Saturday for a weekend getaway to Luxembourg? Well… you just do it, right? That’s how I booked a last minute hotel, got into the car and spent…
Whoops… I visited Indonesia quite a while ago, but I just never got around to writing about it. But I hereby pledge I’m going to start, I promise! At the end of November I spent about 1.5 week on Java, which was…
On the misty hills of Java you’ll find a temple complex that hardly anyone knows about, but which is breathtakingly beautiful: Gedong Songo. If you could capture magic in one place and one experience, it’s this one: riding a horse through this temple…
Last month I was finally back in the city that stole my heart: my beloved London. I was there for a conference and was staying for a week. This meant I needed a nice ‘base’ to work whenever I wasn’t…
Sarajevo was a difficult city during our Balkan road trip. Not that I didn’t love it: I did. But we had forgotten is was Eid al-Fitr (the end of the Ramadan) while we were in Sarajevo. Bosnia has three major religions, but islam…
Wanderlust: when traveling takes over your whole life, and you can’t seem to think about anything else anymore. You will probably have noticed that I suffer from this very addictive curse (and possibly even passed it on to some of…
Helsinki in January: when the invitation hit my inbox, I felt shivers all over my body. Wasn’t it going to be extremely cold? And maybe a bit boring? I couldn’t have been more wrong. Helsinki is a great city for a…