Do You Return…Or Rather Not?

Dive Crew

I had been liv­ing on Koh Samui in Thai­l­and for almost half a year and it had been excit­ing and fun. I was shar­ing a house with Laurent, a french frog­man, oppos­ite Big Buddha Pier in Ban Bang Rak and we had a ball there. Diving by day, watch­ing the sun­set by dusk and going dan­cing, meet­ing friends for din­ner or hav­ing a party or a barbe­que by night. Life was easy, chilled out and great fun. Nev­er­the­less, I felt ready to leave, go some place else, move on. Six months in one place was a long time for me then. Most of us left Samui around the same time. Con­tinue read­ing

Endurance Training

One of the most import­ant traits one can have as a trav­el­ler is endur­ance. After all we spend a con­sid­er­able amount of our trav­el­ling life wait­ing. We wait for a bus, that was sup­posed to have picked us up three hours ago; we wait at air­ports to catch our flight out; we wait in a queue at some embassy to apply for a visa and then again to pick it up; we wait at res­taur­ants for our food to arrive; we wait for our next trip to start; we wait at bor­der cross­ings for a bor­der guard to stamp our pass­port; we wait and pray for day­light to arrive, cause we, once again, chose the cheapest gues­t­house, which is full of bugs and mos­qui­tos and lacks a basic mos­quito net; we wait at cus­toms while our back­pack is being inspec­ted; we wait…The list goes on and on. Con­tinue read­ing

What Type Of Traveller Are You?

I love to watch people. I do it at home, sit­ting in a café for example, and I do it while trav­el­ling. I found Khao San Road in Bangkok, Thai­l­and, to be one of the best places to indulge in my hobby. You just sit down in a res­taur­ant with a chilled beer and watch the world pass by. There’s Israelis with dread­locks and wear­ing bandanas, Eng­lish burnt by too much time in the sun and too little sun­screen, Swedes, tanned a dark brown in their board­shorts and cul­tiv­at­ing that surfers look, Ger­man tour­ists try­ing to blend in to the whole trav­el­ler scene and in between them all left over hip­pies on a short visit from the last full moon party in Goa. Nowadays, you can actu­ally inter­change all those nation­al­it­ies. The country-cliches are slowly disolv­ing I think, but there are still dif­fer­ent types of trav­el­lers: Con­tinue read­ing

A Little Something About Sharks

Shark

A few days ago I met an old acquaint­ance of mine. We hadn’t seen each other in years, so nat­ur­ally we chat­ted about what happened to us dur­ing those years. Even­tu­ally we got to me teach­ing diving in South­east Asia. This always seems to fas­cin­ate people and one of the first ques­tions is usu­ally if I’ve seen any sharks. After more than a thou­sand dives the answer is obvi­ously a yes, with a huge grin on my face. I love sharks, I think they are great anim­als and it shows. My old friend didn’t under­stand me. After all, sharks don’t have the cuddly appear­ance of dol­phins and judging from their repu­ta­tion with the pub­lic, they are more like the mass mur­der­ers of the ocean. Con­tinue read­ing

A Beginner’s Guide to Travelling

I usu­ally start the plan­ning for a trip ages before I actu­ally go away. I work as much as I can and save as much money up as I can, so the plan­ning part is the only thing that keeps me sane. I work a bit over 300 hours in 2 jobs and this prob­ably for over 6 months. But I know all this work will have an end even­tu­ally and my goal (going trav­el­ling) is keep­ing me motiv­ated. So I have a lot of time on my hands in which I can think about what to take with me, where to go first, what to do, who to meet up with, and so on. Con­tinue read­ing

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