Archive for the ‘Journeys’ Category

Back from Eiseb & Gam
For a small week we have been living in the bush amongst wild animals such as jackals, black mumbas, scorpions, spiders, cheetas and leopards. Luckely it’s not summer yet in Namibia so most animals are still pretty far away from most settlements and villages and vast asleep.
However, our trip with Henk [...]

After sunset with a baseball bat
The only downside for me personally in Namibia is safety. You can’t go out at night on foot for too far or too long. For example: Whenever I want to use the internet at the Goba lodge, it’s a little over 1km walk from Horizons (the place we are staying [...]

Getting in shape!
After spending about 2,5 weeks in Namibia without sports, I’ve started running again and working out a little. I really started missing it so I figured it was time for a run around Gobabis. An extra motivation for me is  that I was curious what I would come across while doing this. On [...]

The Harnas Wild Life Foundation
A few days before Albert and the others went back home, we went to the Harnas Wildlife Foundation. It’s about an hour and a half drive away from Gobabis.
Harnas is a wildlife park where you can go on a safari trip by 4wd and on foot and watch lions, cheetas, [...]

welcome to Africa!
So here we are, Namibia! Departed from Holland with Albert Scheffer, his daughter Judith Scheffer, and Albert his collegues Thea Seinen, Date de Vries and and my fellow grad student Jelmer de Jong we drove for 6 hours to Europes largest airport which is placed in Frankfurt, Germany. From there we took a [...]

On the second of july 2010 I’ll be flying with fellow CMD student Jelmer de Jong towards the second least densely populated country in the world which also happens to be one of the driest continents on the planet. This country is positioned above South Africa and is called Namibia.
Personal Reason
We were asked by [...]

In 2008 I studied and lived in Turkey for about 8 months. I was a participant of the Erasmus Student Network (ESN), an exchange program that gives students the oppurtunity to study in a foreign country. I chose to do this in Eskisehir (Eski = Old, Sehir = city), Turkey.
In Eskisehir I studied at the [...]

On december the 29th I flew back to The Netherlands from Lisbon, Portugal. My internship at CheckTheGate had come to an end. After very nice goodbyes with both company CheckTheGate and other people that I’ve met over the past 4 months that I was there, I was packed and ready to go back home to [...]

It was one of the oldest tricks in the book and it had to happen some time, I suppose. I’ve seen it happen many times before allready in Lisbon and in other cities in the world, but I never fell for it up untill now:  my iPhone got stolen last saterday right in front of [...]

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (also known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) was born on the 27th of october in 1466. He was a was a Dutch Renaissance humanist and Catholic Christian theologian (and much, much more..). And he was way ahead of his time when it came to opinions about war, women rights and for example Christianity. [...]


  • Jaap Ruurd Feitsma: nee, die heeft niks gecomment...ik stuur nog even een mail hierover naar je ;) [...]
  • henk: Heel mooi gedaan JR. By the way: heeft je studiebegeleider al eens een coment gestuurd? Tot volge [...]
  • Jaap Ruurd Feitsma: yeps, guess so!:) at your mothers house, right!? hope we'll be able to finish it by then ;) cu in ho [...]
  • Emma: I did not read everything yet, but I like the idea of going there. I guess Ill get to see the movie [...]
  • Arne Mulder: Amazing stories dude, enjoy your last week over there and return home safe. :) [...]

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