The Blogs

Travelogue-style blogs we kept during some of our journeys, covering a wide spectrum of subjects related to the trip – views on the culture, the history, the people, the infrastructure -, including many illustrating photos, of course. And, occasionally, diary-style blogs recounting some of the memories I have from a country were we have lived.

Syria

A short trip in Spring 2024, to a devastated, yet wonderful country.

Finland and the Baltics blog

a four week trip to Finland and the Baltic Republics in Sept/Oct. 2023

the West Africa blog

this is the diary kept before and during our West Africa expedition of March/April 2023

The second Caucasus blog

Our return to the South Caucasus, to Georgia and Armenia, in 2022

The Slovakia & Hungary blog

a five weeks trip in autumn 2021

A Southern Africa travel diary

a personal diary of an eight week journey in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa in 1991

East African Memories

from almost three years (1987-1980) living in Tanzania, and travel to Rwanda and Malawi

The Northern Italy blog

the object of a three week visit in October 2020, to Venice and Florence, amongst others

The Czech Republic blog

Three week journey in July 2020, taking in Prague and most of the rest of the country

The Haiti Diaries

The experiences and observations during three years living in Haiti (2000-2003)

The Caucasus blog

Initially, four weeks Azerbaijan and Georgia, autumn 2019

The Costa Pacifico blog

Four months in early 2019, across Argentina, Northern Chile and Peru

The SE Asia blog

Account of a ten weeks trip to Yunnan in China, then North Vietnam, Laos and Thailand in winter 2017/2018

The Oman blog

Two weeks traveling in this most accessible of Arab countries, early 2017.

The Iran blog

Report of our eight week Iran journey in autumn 2016

Through Tibet travelogue

A two weeks trip through from Lhasa to Kathmandu, in Nepal, in Spring 1999

Italy - Sicily

a ten-day trip in October 2015

The 'Stans' blog

On our six weeks trip through Central Asia - Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan - in Spring 2015

Albanian Memories

Memories from the two years I lived there, from mid 1995 to mid 1997

The Aceh Diaries

This brings together the collected observations from a year in Aceh, Indonesia, where we lived from July 2006 - July 2007

The Romania & Bulgaria blog

This is the account of our six weeks trip driving through Bulgaria and Romania, with excursions to Istanbul and Moldova, in autumn 2014

The Indonesia blog

A three months journey at the end of 2013, through Java, Sulawesi, Kalimantan, and then via Bali to Sumba - temples and volcanoes, villages and tombs, rivers and beaches, and lots of people.

The Silk Road travelogue

Account of a seven weeks journey in the summer of 1998, following the Silk Road west from Xi'an in China across the Karakorum Highway into Pakistan.

The Horn of Africa blog

A travelogue of an eight-week journey through Ethiopia and Somaliland, in February-March 2012, linked to the area's peculiar history, and complete with reading list.

The Lebanon blog

Covers a two week trip through Lebanon in September 2011, digging into the rich history of this country, and the traces left on the ground to illustrate this.

The Indochina blog

The account of a ten week trip through Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam in the beginning of 2011, not only describing the places we went, but also linking them to various historical happenings, and complete with reading list.

The Haiti blog

This one doesn't really fit here, as it deals with the aftermath of the Haiti Earthquake of 2010, not specifically traveling. But it was my first blog, entertaining enough, and there are a number of trips described, too.