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Where Life Writes the Stories

Between places, people, and moments, stories arise – written by life itself. Here I collect them – honest, moving, sometimes uncomfortable.

A night full of rats, bedbugs and warmth: how a bus journey from Soyo to Luanda turned into one of the most wonderful travel experiences

Some travel experiences, when you tell them, sound like pure nightmare material. Bed bugs. Rats. Cockroaches. A short circuit in the middle of the night....

Rice from a Dog Bowl: An Encounter in Angola That Changed My View of Poverty, Waste, and Life

Rice from a Dog Bowl: An Encounter in Angola That Changed My View of Poverty, Waste, and Life in Africa There are moments while traveling...

Learning to travel alone – why I used to be too scared to even go to a café on my own

I used to be too scared to even go into a café on my own. Now I go camping on my own somewhere in the...

The price of setting off – what travelling really costs

There is this moment, just before you leave. Not the romantic one. Not the one with the sunset and the suitcase and that smile you...

What Travelers Really Carry – The Invisible Challenges on the Road

There’s that photo. The dusty 4×4 with a rooftop tent, sunset behind it. Or the backpacker with the giant pack on a suspension bridge somewhere...

Thoreau Didn’t Have a Backpack. Yet He Was One of Us.

Minimalism & Courage He didn’t have a backpack, no Wi-Fi, no Instagram account. He still threw it all away, moved into the woods, and lived...