Rebun is a small island off the Northern coast of Hokkaido, often compared to Scotland or Norway. Despite its sheer cliffs and green meadows, it’s mostly known for the more…

I’m going to leave my home. Today is the day. Most likely never to return.  I will miss playing cards at the kitchen table. Indi taught us one of her…

And now the news, both good, and less so. In one week, I’m set to leave home for about a year, transplanted from Europe to Asia. However, in that time,…

She’s left for her lectures and I sit alone in my room. Not knowing what to do, and staring at my useless hands, I decide to start cleaning. Creating order…

Where the European map shows a colourful puzzle of interlocking nations, historically competing and fighting for supremacy, building alliances only to enact great betrayals in hopes to come out on…

Ik verken het reguliere stratenplan van Madrid, gelegd na de reizen van Columbus  naar het metrum van de koloniserende Romeinen, dat wil zeggen, recht op recht, een mooi ruitenrooster, want…

As is said among the Georgians, on the seventh day, the day of rest, after God had created all the animals, the land they populate, its mountains and river valleys,…

The quaint town of Luxemburg rests upon rocky bends of the Semois and the Alzette, a point since time immemorial easily defensible against marauding bands of Germans or French. The…

At the end of three weeks in Rajasthan, my mother and I arrived at Delhi’s enormous airport, both of us exhausted by the continuous heat and humidity. We had planned…

India hardly is a country. With a population close to double the European landmass, with more languages and ethnicities too. Only under the British did it fall under one government…