My 2015 in people
We are few days away from the end of the 2015 and looking back at my year in pictures I just realized how amazing it has been for me! I strongly believe that if something makes you smile than it is good for you, and today, when saving my mobile photos I noticed how […]
My 1st winter in Iceland
Most of the tourists who visit Iceland love to come here in summer, when days are longer, almost neverending, and temperatures are a bit milder than the rest of the year. However, I personally love Iceland in winter, despite the cold. Before moving I came 3 times here in winter. I always found Iceland […]
Unbelievable places: Soussuvlei sand dunes, Namibia
Soussuvlei, its sand dunes, the highest in the world, its shapes and colours, its silence and beauty deserve a special places among the unbelievable places of Africa and of the planet. Namibia desert is neverending. For those arriving from North as we were at the time of those photos, for those coming from the […]
Isafjordur, my Icelandic love
It was the end of November when I landed to Isafjordur, on the North Western fjords of Iceland. Useless to say it was cold, very cold. In Reykjavik my flight had been cancelled for two days in a row, due to the stormy weather conditions in he North. I had almost lost my hopes to […]
Bratislava in black and white
Bratislava is one of those nice Autumn surprises you don’t expect to get after a 18 hour night bus trip from Amsterdam. It welcomed me in a shiny, sunny and warm day of middle October, and donated me am incredible warm week of joy, discovery, surprises and catching up with an old friend I didn’t […]
Pisa, at the feet of its leaning tower
Despite the beauty of such an ancient, stylish and beautiful place such as Piazza de’ Miracoli in Pisa, despite the amazing view of the leaning tower, enchanting in it perfect shape, there is one thing that astonish you the most in that Medieval Square: the people, the thousands of tourists standing at the towers feet […]
Eating with an Italian princess
The atmosphere is charming and it enlights the warm Mediterranean nights of Southern Italy. It is like diving into the past, on Medieval night of ages ago when Antonello, sir of Salerno, sir of these valleys, introduced his beautiful bride, Costanza, to its people. People from all over the Southern reign came to his castle […]
Unbelievable places: Kolmanskop, a ghost town of the desert
In the middle of the Southern desert, the one belonging to Namibia and to the Southern Hemisphere, Kolmaskop is a true gem, a pearl of beauty and silence, like the Desert that surrounds and hug it. It appears on the side of an unknown road that runs for kilometres without crossing any village or […]
Capetown, between black an white
We arrived in Cape Town with a bit of joy and a bit of sadness at the same time, and so it has been in all these days spent here. Cape Town welcomed us with all her majesty and splendour, in some sunny and warm days that made us forget the cold we had […]
The last day on the truck
It’s finishing and it’s surreal. The bags are packed, the truck is empty, life is ready to start again and an amazing chapter of all our lives is coming to an end. The last 24 hours on the truck have been absolutely crazy. Yesterday we spent the entire day packing up our stuff. Each […]
Etosha, into the wild
“This is where humanity kicked off – it ‘s about time you came home” (Lonely planet Africa). Humanly speaking, that was indeed the feeling I had when I entered not only Namibia but Etosha National Park, too. The door to it actually opens up a new world, the world that belongs to Africa in the […]
Back to the Savannah in Angola
In Angola we have sadly left the rainforest landscape to come back to the infinite and much more spoiled view of the Savannah. The landscape has slowly started to change since we entered the country, the weather got dryer, and the nights chillier. We are running through Angola fast, as our visa is only for […]
And finally on the bad roads of DRC
We had been talking about them since the beginning of the trip, fearing them, waiting for them, imagining them but I think none of us really thought they could really be as bad as the reality showed us: DRC bad roads. We left Congo to enter DRC on the top of the most beautiful […]
Gabon, close to the sun
It was in Gabon where we passed the Equator, going literally on the other side of the world. Just like the Tropic of Cancer, the Equator sign is in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in the rainforest, were the only company you can get is the one of the trees and of the men who […]
Nigeria, land of contraddictions #2
After we left the Consolidated Brewery the real Nigeria finally started to appear. The Nigerian flag has green stripes, probably related to the main colour of the country, which is definitely green. That’s the first thing you notice when you start driving across its roads. The entire country is covered by a rich vegetation that […]
One month away from a dream!
So here we are! It’s exactly 11 months since I found the ad about Vikings Across Africa back in January, I have been talking and dreaming about this for more than 330 days, organizing everything of my preparation, and now, just according to what I planned, everything is happening…for real! I left my house last […]
Happy Birthday to me! One year of 1st impressions…
One year ago My 1st impressions was officially starting to hit my daily life and your daily network update !!! For me it was an exciting moment, it was almost like publishing a book, I could finally start sharing my travels and photos with my friends and with those who didn’t know me at […]
The Blue Lagoon, at night!
The Blue Lagoon in Reykjavik is one of those surprising places and experiences that managed to make me forget about everything and enjoy a great moment of pure pleasure while traveling. I even didn’t want to go there, at the very beginning. I had been already in a Blue Lagoon, one year earlier, in Mivatn, […]
Dreaming Africa part 1: vaccinations
So today it was the big day! I finally started to do something practical for my Africa dream and got the first vaccinations. What a day and what an impression to go to the Vaccination office and speak about this amazing trip with a doctor. I even didn’t start talking that she already took […]
Sicily, a touch of sun!
Sicily, December 31st, 2010 Sicily gave me her welcome with an hug and a smiling sun. Coming from Amsterdam and its 0 degrees and landing in Catania, with 18 has been one of the best arrivals ever at the end of December. What a great feeling walking out of the plane and feeling the […]
