So this blog shouldn't be as depressing as the last one I wrote, but happy it won't be! No, just kidding... I would first of all like to thank, yet again, all those nice reactions I got on my last blog and the sympathy from everybody! As always it is good to start from the beginning... The first two weeks was spent on the road in Europe! You would think, coming home would mean relaxing and doing nothing, but in my case this never seems to be the case... I still am travelling even when I get back home, though this [View Full Entry]

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This is going to be a much more personal blog than I mostly publish, even though I have seen and done a bunch of things again, they failed to catch my excitement due to something of personal nature which overshadowed everything else... Instead I am going to write about the downside of the wandering lifestyle that I have chosen and especially one part of that downside. When I tell people about my life, the fact that I have been traveling more or less continues for the last few years, they often reply how jealous they are. What a great life it [View Full Entry]

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First of all I would like to thank everybody for their positive reactions on my last blog! Of course, this puts the pressure on me to produce something similar... Luckily I have never been ambitious, so let’s just say that for now the last blog was the pinnacle of my blogging career... It will be back to story telling again... Anyway, a poem every blog will become boring too!! So here it comes... Trivandrum, it is a place I have heard of for a long time, my father used to work there and though I never visited in those days a [View Full Entry]

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I'm walking a land named Tamil Nadu, with lots of things to see and do. Where people are friendly and people are nice, the farmers till paddy's, the merchants sell spice! As days go by, I sigh and I cry, it's time for a tale, let's give it a try! A tale about mountains and city's and beaches, and legends of Kings as history teaches. W'thout further a do, I give you this tale, this tale that is true, 'bout Tamil Nadu! I came to a city called Madurai, and saw a big temple, a temple say I! I went in [View Full Entry]

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Tamil Nadu, what a relaxed state it is! I had already heard that down south the people were more easy going then up north, but to experience it is something else... Why is it that wherever you are, in whichever country, it is a golden rule that the further south you travel the more chilled out the people are? Must be some natural law or something... So I began my journey in this wonderful state in Mahabalipuram, which is famous for it's seashore temple... It's a wee little temple, but has a nice setting and of course the fact that it [View Full Entry]

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Well not much as some rascal decided to relieve me of my wallet and my mobile phone while I was getting on the bus at Badami! It was one of those situations where you have to fight with another hundred people to try to get onboard the local bus... Lots of pushing and shoving and squeezing to get through the bus door and then you notice that something is missing! And I noticed straight away, but who to blame... There are a hundred people who could have done it, all looking perfectly innocent and most of them of course are... I [View Full Entry]

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Let’s start with the good: The affable old man who I met in Ujjain and spoke excellent English, with an English accent mind you! He had learned it in the good old days of the British Raj... We had an interesting conversation on the importance of good education. His only flaw was a curious dislike of Sikhs to which he attributed dubious sexual morals and greediness... The ghat's of Ujjain, the most relaxed I have seen in India, with the kids frolicking in the water, the saddhus preparing for the evening blessings and everybody else either bathing or just strolling along [View Full Entry]

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I have travelled through Dubai Airport several times on my way to and from India or some other Asian country, but this is the first time I actually have left the airport and explored a bit more of the Emirate. The reason for this is because my sister has recently moved to Dubai with her family and so it is the ideal time to see a bit more and learn a bit more about the country. Of course the most important reason for coming is to visit my sister who I haven't seen in 2 and a half year and my [View Full Entry]

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So after a long absence in writing blogs, the time has come again for regular updates, to start with a short recap of what has happened in the last 3 month. Well after getting back from India in February, the plan was to get into a medical trial as quick as possible and return back within one and a half month. But things don't always go as planned and this was no exception. The right trial never materialised or at least it took a long time for one to come along that paid enough and I found acceptable. Actually there was [View Full Entry]

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So after traveling India for 8 month I have finally made it to Rajasthan! Now I too will be able to talk to all those hip young people traveling India! Because until now my destinations within India mostly drew blank faces... Everybody seems to go to Rajasthan, this is one of the reasons I wasn't drawn to it! I feared the hassles that accompany such an amount of tourism... But it was time and I also thought it would be a nice thing for my parents to see (not the hassles of course, but the sights!) because there is a reason [View Full Entry]

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