“Show me your hands! They are all blue, how come?” “Because you Dutch, me Hmong.” It took us 13 hours to arrive in the mountain village of Sapa. A long …
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When you travel in Vietnam, always keep your eyes and ears open! You don’t want to miss out on once-in-a-lifetime experiences like the one in this story. We visited the …
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I am staring at a blank laptop screen and mesmerize about Vietnam. Vietnam, both the name of a beautiful Asian country as well as the name of a scar in …
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Milan Kundera once wrote: “The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.” This is the 3rd post about our trip to …
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This is Manhattan, from the ‘outside’: a massive block of skyscrapers. Within that massive block there is one man playing his saxophone. Sound waves echoing between the skyscrapers. Some people …
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“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots & wings.”- Hodding Carter I recently came across this marvelous quote. It helps me answering the question why …
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Writing this post has been so much fun: my 10 biggest travel mistakes. Some of them should not be taken too seriously, others might indeed help you avoid making the …
“Did you take your kids to New York City? Wasn’t that dangerous?” Fear is contagious. Fear of traveling to far-away places and fear of taking your kids along. But fear is …