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 [...]