Hello from my beautiful quarantine Things are going a little more on lockdown, but not as chaotic as other places. The local Tiendas are open. The Mercado was open until this afternoon. It is now closed until next week and will only be open for limited hours. Restaurants are still doing takeaways. There has been…
Stuck in Guatemala: Update # 1
Greetings from San Pedro! I found out that 3,000 other foreigners are stuck here as well in the country. I have joined several WhatsApp and Facebook groups. Many of them are full of mixed information. Many people are panicking and spending 150-300 on taxis to the Mexican border to try to catch a flight from…
Love of travel in the time of the Coronavirus
6 weeks ago, I decided to return to the states for a temporary period. I was once again in a transition phase between Tbilisi- Prague- Ljublijana- Philadelphia- Mars. I wanted a few weeks to visit my family and try to think of my next chapter. Like every single trip, I make back to the states,…
The weirdest capital city I’ve ever been to
The weirdest capital that I have ever been to Originally written on 23/11/2017 Some of my fellow travel friends often tell me I am too focused on visiting capitals of places and miss the “real deal” of a country. I forgot the memo that the hundreds of thousands that live in capitals don’t account for…
A tale of two cities
Welcome back to the spaceship:) This week I am going to stick to Kosovo again. Well according to 112/197 members of the UN, the other 85 will say it is still Serbia. You can call it whatever you like. The Kosovo-Serbia topic, debate, discussion, pissing contest has been going on for nearly 20 years. The…
Unexpected city crush: Prizren, Kosovo
A few months ago , I was craving another Balkan trip . I was speaking with a good Dutch friend of mine about his planned trip to the Balkans and was convinced that I am overdue for a Balkan experience. I went to the god of cheap flights and found a 10 euro Budapest- Pristina…
Couchsurfing Ribnitsa edition
I’ve been a member of couchsurfing since about 2010/2011 . It has been one of the best things I have ever done. I started really using it when I was in France studying abroad. I continued to use it ever since for hosting, surfing and meet ups. While many people think it is just a…
Tiraspol Trotting
06/09/2017 The first thing I saw after leaving the train station was this little park. It was slightly less of an eye sore. The park is called Kirov park, like the one in St Petersburg. I’ll go out on a limb here and assume it was named after Sergey Kirov, an early Bolshevik leader. Someone…
Getting the cadet to Tiraspol
My trip to Transnistria had a major hiccup in the way of getting there. The weather! I mentioned in the article before that I was jaded with Prague winter and that was how I decided to make a field trip a bit south. I knew I wasn’t going somewhere that south on the Adriatic sea,…
The first time the cadet went somewhere that does not legally exist
A couple of years ago, I was having a major mental block when it came to writing and doing research for my master’s thesis that I should have completed months before. I would get to something cool, then discover it was useless, or another exhaustive study was already done. I would also lose focus and…