Since I arrived back home a couple of weeks ago, a few people have contacted me to ask me questions. I’ve therefore decided to answer these in my next blog posts. My answers will hopefully be helpful to many people. Several questions were about the photographic gear I used. This also was a really tough [...]

Many Kyrgyz people were frowning at me when I told them I would visit Uzbekistan afterwards. According to them Uzbeks are arrogant and not friendly at all! The recent events in Osh illustrate this in a very dramatic way unfortunately. At my first stop on the way from Osh to Tashkent, I was rather surprised [...]

Most of my blog posts so far have been relatively impersonal and were merely describing my travels. Now that I have a little more time to play with ( it’s raining here in Samarkand) I thought I would answer a question that a couple of people asked me already: “Why on earth did you leave [...]

Last week, I decided to leave my job at Google to fulfill a dream I’ve had for some time now. I have bought a one-way ticket from Brussels to Sydney. From there, I will try to go back to Europe without taking a single flight. This will also be my only rule: there’s no time [...]