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Over the last years, North Korea has made headlines across the world. Often, you would hear about a (failed) test rocket launch, a verbal threat by its leader,  an imprisonment of a foreign national. With the country’s ultra-closed society, it’s hard to really know what is really going on behind the curtains. But what would…

Antarctica is the world’s coldest, driest and windiest continent. Although you can get to Antarctica on a tourist expedition, working in Antarctica is a whole different story. There are only about 4.000 people working in Antarctica during the summer and around 1.000 during winter. There are no permanent residents, meaning that researchers and other personnel fly in and…

If there’s one word that is a great candidate to becoming word(s) of the year, it’s “Digital Nomad“. You can find the word being used all the time, and many successful bloggers, aspiring bloggers or remote workers seem to want to associate themselves with the coolness of this term. Few people, however, have an idea about…

Many people ask me what my favorite destination was of all my travels. I always tell them the same: Antarctica. “How did you get to Antarctica?!” is the obvious follow-up question. When I explain to them that it wasn’t that challenging, cold, or exclusive, they usually add Antarctica to their (usually long list of) bucket list…

“We might have witnessed the last North Korea Mass Games in history”, my buddy Joe tells me. We’re in a cafe in rainy Amsterdam catching up. I met Joe on a tour to Pyongyang (North Korea’s capital) and we both left the tour more puzzled that we already were. Although the whole tour was only a day and…

If you have ever spent a night in a hostel you have inevitably been invited for a game of asshole. Or president. Or bullshit. What am I talking about? Travel games of course! You can find them in all different names and shapes: some are played with cards, some with dice, and some just by…

Where do the locals eat in Amsterdam? It’s not the McDonald’s or Burger King unless they have had one too many of course. There is a great choice of places to eat in Amsterdam, but few of them are in the central touristy areas. So who can help you find the best places to eat in Amsterdam?…

Travelers hitchhike for various reasons. Some don’t have the financial means to travel otherwise, some consider it more fun than the conventional ways of transport. In some parts of the world hitchhiking is even the only option, and is practically a substitute for public transport. Hitchhiking might sound simple enough, but when you’ve tried it yourself you…

So you’ve decided to take a gap year after getting your degree, or maybe in between two jobs. You flew to Australia, New Zealand and/or South-East Asia to go backpacking for a couple of months. It was amazing, and you feel a strong need to travel again. Heck, you wouldn’t even mind traveling for a…

Have you ever over-estimated a hiking trail? It happened to me while preparing for the Tiger Leaping Gorge hike near Lijiang (China), which I was told was a 4-day hike. I’m not sure how slow the person telling me was hiking, as I ended up doing it in two days. I had packed cans of tuna,…

Don’t take it personally. You love your friends and they love you back. More importantly, it’s not only your stories I’m talking about here. Thousands of travelers who have freshly returned from a multi-month eye-opening trip face the same problem. Sure, your friends back home say they want to hear all of your stories, but would…

What is your favorite type of rental car on a holiday? A classic sedan, a fully-stocked RV or a cheerfully-painted hippie camper? What if I told you that you can rent any of these vehicles for $1 a day? That’s right, 1 dollar a day car rental is not an urban myth! It’s called car relocation…