New World Adventures

Burma!!!

2011-11-25T15:16:00.007+01:00

Hey all, release an Owl for extra super good Karma! Sorry for not writing for so long. I suppose my life has not changed as much as I thought it would since I started writing this blog. I figured now that my life finally got boring I would have all the time in the world to write but as it turned out... things kept happening and I am hardly ever bored. Add to that I still hardly have any

We have a Winner!

2011-01-23T14:42:00.003+01:00

When I started this blog I put up one interactive part where readers could vote for their favourite next post-topic. No less than FOUR people voted, out of which 50 percent chose the topic that this post will be about. Therefore: By popular demand.... (drum-roll): Sailing the Mediterranean Sea "like a pro" Working abroad is a great way to prolong your stay and make the money last. Most of my

Five things you should know about Japan before going.

2010-11-06T12:11:00.002+01:00

Japan. What's not to love? Matsumoto Castle Japan has been at the top of my travel bucket-list for a long time. Before going I had quite some ideas and images in my head of what it would be like. Partly caused by movies and stories of friends who study Japanology I had very high expectations about the country. I would love to see the Cherry Blossoms and the Snow Monkey's for instance. I

Into the unknown Japan... Hokkaido

2010-10-31T15:05:00.004+01:00

Even to Japanese people "Hokkaido" has quite a magical ring. Hokkaido is the empty Japan where nature thrives and life is still slow. Travelling North the Shinkansen (bullet train) line does not go any further than Hachinohe. From there on it's slower train business. As a matter of fact the Japanese are building the Shinkansen line to Hokkaido as we speak so in a couple of years you will probably

Love Hotels - the budget option in Japan

2010-10-25T18:50:00.007+02:00

choose you favourite room Japan is still expensive. More expensive than Europe and the US. More expensive than Australia. In fact, Japan is quite possibly the most expensive destination you can travel to. And, big surprise... accommodation in Japan is also expensive. This may come as quite a shock for many an experienced traveller, since we are used to finding our way cheap, pretty much where

Sweet talking Japanese girls

2010-10-25T15:56:00.002+02:00

I am an alien. Or all Japanese are aliens. That's a thought that often crossed my mind in Japan. Japanese girls are nice and interesting. Good looking and hip. Sexy and sweet. But most of the time I was totally clueless on how to approach them. They would wave at me. I would wave back. Once a friend and I invited three beach girls to play frisbee with us. They gladly joined in but afterwards our

What happens in Japan...

2010-10-22T17:03:00.003+02:00

... stays in Japan, as the saying goes for Vegas. capsules are designed for 1 only Long time I have been contemplating, whether all adventures I have had, in Japan or elsewhere, should be written on this blog. I know some of my blogger friends never seem to write about the juicy details about which I hear during booze infested evenings in bars. I cannot vow that I will write all about mine

Japan photo's online!!!

2010-10-22T16:35:00.000+02:00

Some really cool shots and stories to go with them are to be found here! It almost seems like a dream now (October 21, 2010), looking back about a month after coming home from Tokyo. I have not had time to write since then but luckily my Autumn Holidays have arrived. Once again, some time to write about new-world-adventures, that are already in the past. To get an overview of my latest Japanese

Well...

2010-07-30T23:23:00.003+02:00

It seems like I have slept about one hour... Kept myself busy watching online series and planning the rest of my trip, so definitely not a waste of time to stay here... Its already 6.20 AM now, so I may as well be off to the fishiest fish market ever, Tsukiji!!! Will catch up with some sleep later on. It promises to be a nice day and I have already discovered a nice beach near the harbour. By

Tokyo Nights

2010-07-30T18:25:00.003+02:00

This is quite a weird experience. Am typing this post from an overnight Internet Cafe in Tokyo. Last night I spent in the Capsule Riverside hotel. Where all you get is a round capsule of about 2m by 50 cm-square. But then again, nothing much different from a bunkbed in a dorm anywhere in the back-packers world. Lest this one is made up of plastic and has an integrated TV, so you have to dug

Five things about Amsterdam. Previous title: Unexpected beauty in Amsterdam

2010-03-16T06:19:00.008+01:00

Yes. I love photography. At this moment I study at the Amsterdamse Fotovakschool and get very inspired. I want to professionalize my art and am working hard on it. Up until this year I would only take photo's during my travels. I have a giant stock of about 30 beautiful countries, but now I have started to look beyond the obvious and learn to create a beautiful setting to photograph. on top

Carnival in Brazil... Beware

2010-03-05T21:32:00.001+01:00

My good friend Mark, who nowadays lives in London with his wife Vladka and their daughter Mila, invited me to join him and some friends to the Carnival in Brazil. Who would refuse? So by the end of January, 2006, we were on a plane and arrived in Sao Paulo. Pretty much straight on to the bus to Rio de Janeiro where we first found out that Carnival is a pretty big thing in Brazil. The first thing

Start following me.

2010-03-01T22:51:00.002+01:00

I thought it was pretty funny, when I first saw this on a T-shirt in a shop on Khao San road. One of very few positive things I can say about this back-packers highway/haven in Bangkok... that everybody knows from the start of the movie The Beach... In reality I am working on putting on enough posts and cool pix, and getting some help from my friends, so that I can find some actual followers.

This weeks' photo. Lioness in Livingstone.

2010-02-28T22:55:00.000+01:00

My good friend Ross gave me some welcome advice on how to make my blog more attractive and interesting. He is an experienced blogger from Scotland, currently travelling and always writing (click here to check his blog) and his was advice was NOT to put up more photo's featuring my self ;-) He does know my photography and adventures pretty well though so he told me I should at least once every

Take off: New World Adventures dot One

2010-02-23T13:10:00.002+01:00

The adventure has started. Time to write. Welcome to my first blog in English. Here for you, to share my adventures in this ever evolving world. In my home base Amsterdam where there is so much fun to be had. Or around the world. During my job as a tourguide / tourleader or when I am taking my chances to catch the spirit in photographs. Keep on reading. I will be posting regularly. Expect some