Taiwan
Somaliland
Austria
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Bangladesh
Myanmar
Thailand
Laos
Cambodia
China
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Ukraine
Poland
Latvia 2012
Sri Lanka 2012
Indonesia
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The longest trip
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Mein Wecker klingelt. Halb fünf Uhr morgens. Äthiopien ist groß und um weite Strecken zurückzulegen, wir früh losgefahren. Immerhin werde ich dann gegen 15 Uhr in Shire sein und dort noch einen Bus nach Aksum erwischen. Punkt fünf Uhr wird …
Finally: Travel − Follow the Money
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It definitely is ironic: I quite my job, leave my home to travel the world and what do I do? I spend 2½ month in Kaş and then 3 month in Sabang/Puerto Galera. So much for travelling. The time in …
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Made it!!!
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Egypt 2008: Greg and I are sitting with three other travellers in a taxi to Luxor talking about our travel plans. There’s a camel transporter in front of us. I mention that I want to go to Dahab. “Oh, you’re …
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2014 − The year without Christmas
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“If you want to make the Gods laugh, tell them your plans.” And so they don’t spend to much laughing and maybe find some time to help children who mine the minerals for your new mobile phone I’ll only present …
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Halo Halo
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Halo Halo means mixed-mixed. It’s a dessert with many mixed ingredients. There’s Ube, white beans, sugar corn, sweets like suger beans and jelly, also fruits and sugar are added. On top sweet condensed milk is poured over a lot of …
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What I’m doing here
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Of course I’m also doing other things as well but diving plays a very big role in my life right now and it will in the future as well. I also found out that diving and translating don’t mix …
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Three things from my backpack
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A long, long time ago Florian of Flocblog threw me the Blogstöckchen. I’ve been a bit lazy writing the blog in the past weeks but finally I got round to writing this: The idea of the Blogstöckchen is to present …
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Money matters July 2013
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I’m not on the road yet but july was the first month without employment for me and a dry run before I go travelling. I already started in may working as a translator. My rough goal was to earn about …
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I’m a digital nomad now
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I’m a digital nomad now. On monday I earned my first salary as a location independent worker using the internet. Digital nomads are people that don’t have to be at a certain location in order to earn money. Instead they …
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Have I been to Africa now?
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✓ Europe ✓ Australia ✓ America ✓ Asia ✓ Africa After having been in Ghana I can duely “check” Africa now, or can’t I? So far I’ve never claimed to have been in Africa, even though I have been in …
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Lisboa
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13 hours stopover in Lisbon is enough time to see the city. The subway easily connects the airport with the city and from the first time we laid eyes on the little alleys of the old town we fell in …
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Uzbek Immigration
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“How is the immigration procedere at your place?” “You show your passport, that’s it.” “I hope we’ll have that too, soon.” Even the Uzbek customs officer ist annoyed by the immigration procedure. Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan were a slight disappointment when …
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Reaching Pushkar after 1800 km in 38 hours
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Pushkar, Monday, 15th November 2010 38 hours after leaving the hotel in Kolkata I arrived in the Bhola Hotel in Ajmer. And after almost 1800 km I’m on the other side of the subcontinent and while it’s already getting dark …
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The last days in Iran
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18th October 2010, Shiraz International Airport The trip from Qeshm to Shiraz was quite interesting. On the ferry boat to the mainland a man was sitting next to me who spoke broken English and had to tell me how bad …
Qeshm − Diving in Iran
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Qeshm, 14th-16th October 2010 The Diplomat Hotel (250,000 Rial, attached bath and breakfast) is the fanciest hotel I’ve had yet. A nice, soft bed, “a fucking big television” (with English language program and even BBC World News) and a nice …
Shush
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Shush 12th and 13th October 2010 On October 11th I took a night bus from Shiraz to Ahvaz an unattractive industrial city in Khouzestan a province bordering Iraq. It’s tourism slogan is “Antique places, natural wonders and Holy Defence” referring …
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Kerman
Kerman (5.10.−7.10.2010) was not really good. My plan had been to do a camel trek into the nearby desert where there are famous unique rock formations. However Mr. Vatani despite what the guide book said couldn’t offer any camels. And …
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Shiraz
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Shiraz, Sunday, 10th Oktober 2010 Persepolis build around 650 B.C. by Xerxes and Darius to celebrate Noruz the Persian new year (and to collect tributes from the subject nations) and to receive foreign dignitaries is Shiraz’ biggest attraction. Alexander the …
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Yazd
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Yazd, Monday, 04th Oktober 2010 Yazd is said to be inhabited since 7000 years. While this claim is hard to verify it is indeed one of the longest continually inhabitated cities in the world. As an important point on the …
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Half of the World − Esfahan, Part 2 of 2
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Satureday, 02nd Okotber 2010, in the bus on the way from Esfahan to Yazd On thursday I was invited by a carpet seller for tea to his shop where I met German student and fellow nurse Thomas from Münster. Together …
Half of the World − Esfahan, Part 1 of 2
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Esfahan, 29th September 2010 Esfahan Nesf-e Jahan, Esfahan is half the world. This 16th century saying is still true and Esfahan is indeed beautiful. Robert Byron put it this way: “Isfahan is among those rarer places, like Athens or Rome, …
Qom
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Qom, Monday, 27th September 2010 Image I had just posted my disappointment in the internetcafe and had left when a young women followed me from the cafe and asked me for my mobile phone number because she wanted to speak …
Tehran
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Tehran, Sunday, 26th September 2010 Image Image Image Tehran is not nice. Apart form my visa run I visited a few museums and damaged my lung in the traffic fumes. Every evening I feel like I’m coming up with a …
Maku
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Maku itself hasn’t much to offer so I rented a taxi for a half day (200,000 rial) and drove to the nearby attractions. And there’s some irony in the fact that the first sight I visited in Iran was a …
Doğubayazıt − at the border to Iran
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Doğubayazıt, Satureday, 18.09.2010 A little town near the Turkish-Iranian Border. A lot of military, armoured cars on the street, before every military building there are soldiers with their guns ready, leaving the city you see a battery of tanks under …