Meeting A Girl In Sri Lanka

“Come in and sit, come, come!”, she said with a friendly smile and sparkling eyes staring at us. We were in the middle of a lonely village road, close to the Horton Plains in Sri Lanka, Yuily sitting on the asphalt, totally not ladylike, while Stephan walked around holding his […]


Working Holiday in Taiwan: Part 4 – Other Jobs

January 2015, I started a Working Holiday in Taiwan and soon after landed myself a position as a Teacher in a language institute. I really liked this job, I liked it so much more then I thought I would. One of the most satisfying parts about it is to see […]


Working Holiday In Taiwan: Part 3 – Working

I arrived in Taiwan, I had a place to stay and I had an e-mail in my inbox offering me work. I was off to a start on this working holiday. The e-mail came from one of the language institutes I applied to, they specialize in European languages, one of […]


Because of travel, we see, think and change ourselves

After holding a public discussion, we were so enthusiastic about talking to all these people interested in traveling that we didn’t want to leave. A little time ago Yuily joined another discussion about traveling. The host has traveled around the world when he was a student, about 20 years ago. […]


Working Holiday in Taiwan: Part 2 – Finding a Job

This post follows up on Part 1. If you haven’t read it, do so by clicking here. As I was flying to Taiwan, I couldn’t shake the worrying feeling off me. I was calm on the outside, but on the inside there was this apparent terror that I will now […]


Golden Tiles on German Streets

Difficult to find, on German streets you can find gold-colored tiles like this. Some of them in residential areas, some in the front of a shop, some in front of a seemingly new building. We didn’t really notice them until our Couchsurfing host in Berlin told us to watch out […]


Working Holiday In Taiwan: Part 1 – Preparations

As this website indicates, I’m currently in Taiwan on a Working Holiday Visa. This has proved to be quite an immersing experience. You can find plenty of information on the internet about Working Holidays in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, but the information on Taiwan is few and far in […]


Return from traveling

In January, my trip of almost one year came to an end, so when I came back to Taiwan I started working straight away. Somehow, I felt kind of guilty, I hadn’t worked for one year and felt the urge to contribute more to society, but of course I also […]


I am over 26 years old, I support a self-financed gap year

These days, there is a blogger who I appreciate, and one of her article has aroused a big flamewar on the internet. The article is about a 26-year-old girl who quit her job and went traveling for one year. Actually I’m kind of surprised that this article wasn’t just getting […]