It is hard to capture the huge variety of feelings India awakens inside. Suddenly you understand how close love and hate can be related, how pure happiness can suddenly switch to pure frustration and how endless gratefulness can turn into disappointment. It is hard to find words to describe these many experiences, so bare with…
Travelling through India. It is more than simply travelling through a country, rather it is like travelling through space and time. Landscapes change from beautiful beaches over sandy meadows into rough mountains. A loving kind of landscape into a dangerous and treacherous terrain. So much beauty, and yet so much frustration. If you ask me…
We finally left Kovalam. I am not sure if it was my heart or my stomach aching when we drove away, but anyway it resulted in some secret tears running down my face nicely hidden away below my helmet. I hate crying in public so a helmet perfectly protects me against that in addition to…
Bye electricity! I am sitting here behind my little computer, writing to you from a room covered in darkness using a headlight to be able to look around at least bit. Rain has been pouring down all day. Not rain like I know from Belgium, but rain like the end of days has arrived. Rain…
Back in India. One year ahead, a year of travelling. It may sound strange, but it is hard to let go, to have nothing to do except relax and enjoy. I want a motorcycle, I want to hit the road, go and discover, be part of the unknown, but there is no hurry, life is…
Well, I don’t like to admit it, but as many among my friends predicted, I kind of took up a bit too much work. It seems that working nearly 7 days a week and planning a trip around the world aren’t the best things to combine. So yes, all of you who are thinking, ‘told…
To start this blog, I can happily share with you that this is the first blog of many to come written from my cutely small travelling laptop or tablet attached to a keyboard, whatever you like to call it. I received this gift from my family because I graduated in June and because I am…
A hospital, a place where the extremes of life come together: birth, death, untameable happiness, uncontrollable screams filled with pain, relief, fear for the future, determination, tears and hope. People are strong. People cope in the most wonderful, unique way. Stories are difficult. Every day you hear something new. Parents losing their children, people hoping…
Amazing how much time you have when you are home alone. It is not lonely. Rather it is time to be yourself. I would even say it is good to know how to be alone. It reminds you of who you are, what defines you and what you want from life. Being alone reminds you…