Thailand
from November 9th 2007 until January 6th 2008

and

from February 25th until March 25th 2008

And then, there's coffee
Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit. Read further, and learn Thai in one hour.... READ ON >>

Religion, disbelief or superstition?
Once we were in Lourdes, where we felt nauseated seeing all the reli-traders of Holy Mary statues, necklaces, rings and jerrycans with holy water. No, we will never fall for that! Superstition, and nothing else.... READ ON >>

Every disadvantage has an advantage
And, guess what: the advantage of a small community is that everyone knows each other and everyone knows all about everything. And so, they know about a man who.... READ ON >>

Butterflies, refugees, joyful entertainment and friendly strangers
I stay further behind than I usually do. During a break Peter asks me how I'm doing. I stealthily look at him, open my front pannier and suddenly there's a green snake around my arm. Aahhh.... READ ON >>

I am fed up, Peter commits adultery and necks are stretched
Whilst Peter commits adultery I skin yesterday's snake and write my diairy, completely relaxed. Then I take the bus.... READ ON >>

Do the Netherlands exist, or are we no more than a bunch of pirates?
This mission had the rather peculiar task of finding out whether the Netherlands really existed or not. Rumours said that the Dutch were just a bunch of pirates, living on a couple of
islands.... READ ON >>

Two new clowns
Suppose the man unexpectedly has to sneeze, and the device jerks in his hand. Peter tries hard thinking about other things, but the searing sound of the torture saw makes it virtually impossible. Slowly his mouth fills with ceramic sawdust, he really shouldn't swallow now, although the inclination to do so is.... READ ON >>

A well known smear
After some time he reaches the massive Schnalstal Glacier. This is a dangerous area of ice and snow, with invisible crevasses and sudden changes of weather. He knows the area and climbs almost effortlessly, despite the heavyweight clothes of his time.
And yet, something goes wrong..... READ ON >>

A notion of reality
They don't have a bicycle, walk two miles twice a day going to their land and back to a rickety hut. We growl about a bad internet connection, or a power cut. They use candles or a small fire, and do not wail. We.... READ ON >>

Sour, bitter, meddling and deaf
The nearly one thousand years old temple is situated on top of an extinct vulcano and offers views over Thai as well as Cambodian territory. A stone promenade a couple of hundred metres long leads via a number of bridges and stairways to the entrance gate.... READ ON >>

 

from February 25th until March 25th 2008

Bizarre scenes
He covered nearly every surface of nearly every building, from the prayer hall to the bell tower, toilets, water tower and cremation temple of his current temple with glass bottles. The new chapel at the pond was built with bottles as the main construction material.... READ ON >>

A day in a life of a weaver ant
No, not at all. But you know, I had two days of leave then and the glue-ladies really made a mess of it.'
'Yes, that sounds good, Jane 1, but you're quite an ant-screwer and obsessed with details, aren't you?''
'Oh, if that only were true! Oh wait, the egg-men.... READ ON >>

And it gets even madder
That people build a temple entirely of bottles or in the shape of a royal barge, okay, that's only logical. That nature sometimes takes strange shapes, a la. And it was about time somebody grew a tea plant hybrid which.... READ ON >>