Recently moved back from Bali to my native Holland. Sometimes I catch myself talking about my third, fourth or fifth home. To make things a little easier, I consider the entire world my home, even if I conform to most stereotypes of a typical Dutch :)

Living in 'good old' Holland also means my wanderlust is peaking these days. After all, every place has its own unique flavour that deserves to be explored. If I do not feel like exploring new places, I'm lucky enough to have friends to visit in several places.

Interests

Travel
Sports
Politics
History
Movies

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Das Leben der Anderen, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dogville, Snatch, The Departed, Diarios de Motocicleta

Music: Manu Chao, Blof, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Eek-a-Mouse, Green Day, Ennio Morricone, Maná, Outkast, Teoman, Oasis, Caro Emerald, it all depends on my mood.

Books: The White Tiger (Aravind Adiga), De Eeuw van mijn Vader (Geert Mak), The Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn), Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina (Eduardo Galeano), Nietzsche en Kant Lezen de Krant (Rob Wijnberg), Cien Años de Soledad (Gabriel García Márquez), If This Is a Man (Primo Levi)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Reaching 'el fin del mundo' - the end of the world
Getting lost in the Negev desert
Touching a whale
Working in the Mother Theresa orphanage in Calcutta
Spotting the weirdest of species on the Galapagos Islands
Taking a third class night train from Moscow to Saint Petersburg
Reading a newspaper at midnight in Sweden
Peddling the Bosphorus

Teach, Learn, Share

I prefer not to teach in my spare time :) being taught something is a different story!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, India, Indonesia, Netherlands, Turkey