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How To Pick a Computer for Long Term Traveling

Nicolas — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 05:00:31 +0000

How the internet has changed our lives in the last 15 to 20 years is enormous. From time to time I try to imagine how life was without the internet. If you wanted to know something, you actually had to search for the right chapter of the Encyclopedia Britannica, browse it for a couple of minutes to find a summary that didn’t make you much wiser. So you had to take your bike and ride to the library, which was often closed so you had to wait to increase your wisdom until the day after.
Now you take your phone, enter the term in google, and you get thousands of explanations in all kinds of different languages and with difficulties ranging from brain surgeon to moron.

New photo gallery: Life in an Old Soap Factory

Nicolas — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:43:26 +0000

The first person I met when I arrived in Skopje, Macedonia was Brad. An American in his early twenties, who had joined the army after high school, a way of life that took him to the Western Balkans. He was a little loco, but of the good kind.
When we reached the subject of photography, we saw that we had an equal interest in Urban Exploring. Brad was quite happy about this, because he had been waiting for months to find someone who wanted to visit an old demolished soap factory with him.

Holidays in Gran Canaria

Nicolas — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:17:34 +0000

This is a guest post by Joey Ferrer

The enchanting tropical island of Gran Canaria is located just off the coast Africa and is famous for its year round sunshine and beautiful beaches. While there are a wide range of different holiday options for Gran Canaria, all inclusive holiday deals are by far the best value for money. The great thing about booking this type of holiday is that holidaymakers will be able to spend more time having fun rather than worrying about arranging every little detail.

6 800 ways to say cheers

Nicolas — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:28:17 +0000

_{Photo by Akuppa}

Language is what made us climb out of the trees and start walking straight, it’s one of those fundamental differences between ourselves and every other creature on this planet.

Somewhere between 50 000 and 200 000 years ago there must have been a human - or Homo Sapiens as they called themselves those days - who wanted something more than basic communication.

Indie traveling for dummies

Nicolas — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:13:54 +0000

What was indie again?

The only thing that Wiki could teach me about this subject is that indie is short for independent. Interesting, but I had expected more from professor Wiki.
There are a lot of links though, to indie art, indie games, indie music, indie film and indie everything else.

Indie is a term that can be used for everything that is not mainstream, or - very important - everything that does not want to be mainstream.

BootsnAll Indie Travel Challenge 2012 - New Year's Resolutions

Nicolas — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:00:49 +0000

About a year ago, I’ve entered with my blog in the 1000-1000 Travel Blog Challenge. The purpose of that contest was to improve SEO, advertising, page ranking and other very nerdy stuff, in order to end up with a blog that has a 1000 visitors a day, generating an income of a 1000 dollars a month.
I failed terribly.

The exercises had very little to do with creating good content, I am sure that the techniques really work if you stick enough time in them, but they were so boring that I soon decided not to proceed.

Story behind the photo: Men at Work

Nicolas — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:27:58 +0000

It was somewhere near Checkpoint Charlie, the most famous crossing point between East- and West-Berlin during the Cold war, that I spotted this setting.
Even though the Berlin wall has been pulled down for over twenty years by now and the checkpoint is nothing more than another tick on the to do-list of every Berlin visitor, I found that this image resembles the general German post-war idea.

Photo Essay: Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps

Nicolas — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:12:23 +0000

As a follow up of my previous photo essay about the East Side Gallery, I wanted to bring you another piece of Eastern European tragedy.

Photo Essay: East Side Gallery (or the Berlin Wall anno 2011)

Nicolas — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:49:21 +0000

If I asked you to name two famous walls, what are the odds that you will say “the Chinese Wall and the Berlin Wall”?
One or two rock fans among you may also note Pink Floyd’s “The Wall”, but with that we've named the most known walls I guess. Even though WiKi teaches us that there are many more.

For those of you who have just arrived from another planet or have been sleeping through most history classes, I’ll give you a short explanation of what the Berlin Wall is.
Stick with me, it’s not that much.

New travel article: Impressions of Pristina

Nicolas — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:15:57 +0000

If you’re a frequent reader of this blog, you might have noticed that I’m quite in love with the Balkans. But I’m not the only one. The last three years, Croatia had an average of eleven million tourists per year. Yes, Croatia is also part of the Balkans.

But I like my travel destinations to be a bit uncommon, “off the beaten track” as we travelers say. So I gave Bosnia and Herzegovina a shot, I had a look at Montenegro, I went to Serbia, Albania started to get close to what I had in mind, but this time is was going to the most mystical country of them all. Kosovo.