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City Flick: Buenos Aires

8 February 2011

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One of my goals with this website is to get you traveling, exploring and experience what life has to offer; looking for opportunities beyond your regular office job and try something new, radical or mind-blowing. After all I just heard that one of my cousins moved to Bangkok after talking to me about all the […]

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Newsflash: Scheduled Egypt Travel

29 January 2011

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As some of you may know I had a flight to Cairo, Egypt scheduled for today (Saturday). Taking the flight would have meant arriving in Cairo just after the imposed curfew and arriving to a very unstable situation. Observing the news situation closely on Twitter, Blogs, LP Forum and a few local sources I decided to miss […]

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How to run a world class backpacker hostel

6 January 2011

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I am currently traveling the world for an extended period of time. During that adventure I’m predominantly staying in backpackers and hostels. Some of them are good and some are simply mediocre. But every once in a while there is an awesome hostel that just hits the ball out of the park. (If you are […]

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How to make long-term travel work

11 December 2010

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Long term Traveling may seem like it will set you free and all day to day worries are out the window. Wrong. Think again. Yes, you will feel free and at ease with a lot of things that occupied your mind during your life in an office. But at the same time your mind is […]

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5 Tips on How to Bargain on the Road

1 December 2010

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Growing up in a western country does teach you that almost everything has a fixed price. Bananas, hotel rooms and taxi rides cost a certain amount of money. Sure there are differences between places and companies, but generally most of us don’t start bargaining at the hotel front desk or when buying a few bananas. […]

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Overland Traveling by Bus in South America

6 November 2010

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Shoestring travelling in South/Central America certainly means that you will spend a lot of times in buses. While writing this blog post I’m going on my 18th hour of being in the same bus, going 4000 meters up winding mountain roads. Altitude sickness is setting in, the smell of old vomit is hanging in the […]

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