My only trip to Africa in 2024 came as a last minute request almost at the end of the year. As I was starting to prepare mentally for the end of the year, I got a request to help out another team. You know that kind of request you get on Thursday asking you if… Read More »
As 2021 is ending I was starting to remember what happened this year in travel terms. This year was my first year in the last 20 years when I did not board an airplane or left the country. You can imagine what a change considering that my record is of 54 flights in a year.… Read More »
The best way to taste local culture is to ask for a beer. As currently writing this post I am a “designated driver” and with no beer for several weeks already, I started to get nostalgic. Lack of travel in this “wonderful” Corona year, the virus not the beer, made me look through the photo… Read More »
This post further documents my business trips and shows people places visited from a business-travel perspective. This time I describe my short visit to Dodoma the old/new capital city of Tanzania. Why old? Because in 1974 the Tanzanian government decided that Dodoma is going to be the new capital of Tanzania. Why new? Because only… Read More »
In a previous post I was advocating for everyone to travel more and to open their perspective by experiencing more places and cultures. That post proved to be extremely popular with lots of shares and views. I was pleasantly surprised so I decided to share also some of my travel tips. All the tips and… Read More »
I advice all people to get out of their comfort zone and travel. Travel to the most strange destinations and see that the world is a small little place where everybody has basically the same desires and hobbies! People are not so different as some politicians want you to think. Isolating yourself from the world… Read More »
Dear Reader, I am coming back to the topic that hooked me on the blogging activity – the MIND, slowly becoming a new habit. Today is the first day of a new month and I have seen many media posts that share thoughts on the first day of a new month. Now, I also wish… Read More »
If you travel a lot by plane you stumble on all sort of people in the airports. This is a short list of the types I identified: The lost bunch: People running around like headless chickens, lost in the terminal. They annoy everybody and create a buzz in the terminal. The herd: Compact group of… Read More »
This is another trip done in August 2018. How to get there: Going to Angola is easy, there are a lot of airlines flying there. Obviously, the Portuguese airline has daily fights from Lisbon but you can also take the direct flight from Paris or Brussels. Luanda is a very strange place in… Read More »
Working for a multinational company that implements payment systems across the world has its ups and downs. Traveling to new and strange places which are not usually on ones travel wish list is one of the ups. This is just my opinion, I know people for which having to travel to strange places is a… Read More »