Ok, time has passed and it only left the actual departure ahead of me. Often, I still wonder whether this is really happening.. Am I really going to the other side of the world to explore another culture, get a whiff of the surroundings ancient Buddhists used for inspiration and enlightenment and surrender myself to a different kitchen? Yes B, it's really happening! At this moment I remember again I am leaving in a couple of hours, so as we speak my MP3 player ...

I wrote a long, inspired and great piece about my preperations but because I was distracted it took too long for me to hit "post" so this awesome site decided for me that what I really wanted was to delete the whole thing. So that's what happened. Lesson learned though, don't take to long writing and devoting yourself to a "quick update", and don't ever take your time on writing a post without selecting the whole thing and not copying it first before hitting "p...