Okay, I know, I still owe you a final blog from Colombia and the confession, that I am actually back in Europe. Now, here they are both.I spent the last month in Colombia (which was September) working at a coffee finca close to Pereira. Which means I could still go to football trainings and meet my friends from Pereira but I was living close to the middle of nowhere, which, as I found out, is actually a really pretty place. With lots of colourful birds. Even thou...

I couldn't stop myself this time - or rather, I didn't manage to post this in 2 or 3 parts, which would probably have been more appropriate. So either read it when you have lots of time, or split it yourself ;)I have been living in Italy for long enough now to forget half of my Spanish (which is bad news) and swap it for Italian. So next to not being able to talk proper German as I keep mixing it with Dutch, now I am also not able to speak either Italian or Spani...

I haven't written for some time, because, quite simply, there isn't really anything to say. I am staying with an Italian family with two boys, in the countryside, close to Milano. My life here couldn't be more different from the life in Turkey. In Turkey, quite frankly, the family I was staying with, inhabited a different world, a world I didn't know and had no desire to get to know. A world where, sad to say, humans didn't seem to count for much, and material po...

So, I am in Italy now. It probably won't come as a surprise to anyone that my journey here did not go at all as planned: I had really, really wanted to cycle again those nice 100 or so kilometres in Greece. But the day that I was supposed to be there it was basically raining heavily all the time - at least according to the weather forecast. So I had to change my plans and decided to instead cycle the not so nice part of the way. Which also meant cancelling my cou...

Very quick update, before I actually post what I've written earlier: I have safely arrived in Greece by now and am about to finally arrive in Turkey. I will write about this later. I just wanted to say that - even if you may not notice from the length of my blog entries, all of the last posts have been written in a hurry as I was either busy enjoying time with friends or in nature or trying not to use up all the battery of my laptop as I had no idea when I could ...