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Back from Bosnia 2008-06-25 10:23:29 From 5 till 11 June I was in Sarajevo (Bosnia
) together with my breakdance crew Come Correct. An organization from The Netherlands does charity work in Bosnia by organizing an annual Kidsfestival in which (poor) children
could participate in 22 different workshops. One of those workshops was of course our breakdance workshop! We had a great time with those children.
Back in business 2008-06-25 09:38:31 I finally managed to import my posts from Blogspot (karimocc.blogspot.com) to my own (Wordpress 2.5) server.
Back from Sweden - Skinberga 2008-05-07 05:00:00 I safely returned from the middle of nowhere in Sweden
. I stayed 70km from Vaxjo in a village called: Skinberga (sounds a bit mysterious doesn’t it ?). The village had a total population of about 4 people (excluding some horses). We stayed near a beautiful forest and a huge lake. It was the total opposite [...]
Back from Wroclaw, Poland 2008-04-23 16:58:00 I am back from Wroclaw, Poland
, what a trip!. First I thought it wouldn’t be so interesting, actually I could not really make an imagination of Poland. Eventually it was a very nice long weekend break, beautiful architecture, allot! of bars/clubs and enough shops to spend your money. The people are friendly but sometimes they [...]
Wroclaw today 2008-04-18 18:39:00 It’s 1:39AM at the moment and the plane to Wroclaw leaves at 07:00AM. Anyway..we still have to drive for a hour to Dusseldorf (Weeze) but we can park our car over there, so thats great!. We will be back on Tuesday, hopefully with a bunch of pictures and videosSee you!.
Next stop: Växjö, Sweden 2008-04-02 04:50:00 The parents of my girlfriend have a house in Småland, Sweden
, so at the end of April we will visit them. The nearest Ryanair (yeah yeah cheap!) airport is Växjö and from there it’s about 60km to the middle of nowhere. Anyway..check the right sidebar to see all my travel plans.
Back from London 2008-04-02 03:47:00 Our romantic London trip was too good to be true. The hostel (Palmers Lodge) we booked via Hostelworld looked like a little castle and was perfectly located near the city center. We have seen a lot of things, London Eye, Buckingham Palace, House of Parliament/Big Ben, British Museum, Movieum Museum, IMAX Cinema, London Zoo, nice [...]
Wroclaw Poland for just 2 Eurocents 2008-03-20 20:29:00 Those Ryanair discounts makes me crazy! Last week they offered flights from Dusseldorf (Weeze) to several cities in Europe for just 2 Eurocents!!! (round-way). So my buddy Rob and I booked a ticket for 19 till 22 April to Wroclaw in Poland
. We need to drive to Dusseldorf Weeze (1 hour) and park my car [...]
Back from Stockholm 2008-03-04 03:53:00 Well...we are back from Stockholm
. Our week in Stockholm was great! friendly (sometimes crazy) people, allot of things to do (museums, sightseeings, cafe's etc.) and enough H&M's to fill your closet to the fullest haha. Two weeks left before we go to London, luckily we won't bring any luggage with us, just a day (back)pack. This will save us a lot of time with checking in.
What’s up!? 2008-02-18 07:54:00 Well..this is what’s going on right now.
Stockholm1 week to go till Stockholm, can’t wait!. We will stay in the Gamla Stan (old city) area at a very nice hostel called Castanea Hostel, www.castaneahostel.com
LondonLast week Ryanair had some nice offers, so we booked a flight from 27 till 31 March to London, wahoee! We are staying [...]
Asia here we come! 2008-07-04 15:20:11 We’ve got the dubble entry visa for China and we are ready to go!. I received a letter from Air Berlin that they reduced their flights to Shanghai from five to three flights a week. Therefore they gave us a €150,- voucher which we can use the next time we travel with Air Berlin.
We will [...] Read more:Asia
The secret Great Wall of China 2008-07-17 18:28:55 Our hostel (Leo Hostel) offered us a fabulous tour to the Great
Wall of China
. They offer a tour to the renovated (most famous) part and to a "secret" part of the wall. The secret part is a long intensive hike and most of the wall over here is broken, in his orginal state and not renovated. Read more:Great Wall
Shanghai Zoo and the Jade Buddha Temple 2008-07-14 11:52:23 Yesterday we went to the ShanghaiZoo
, it supposed to be the biggest one in China and yes! it was big!. There were allot of different animals: Giant Panda's, wolves, bears and much more. The living environment for the animals are not really like the Zoo's you would see in Europe. Allot of visitors scare the animals by screaming and knocking on the glass if not they try to food the poor thing with Read more:Buddha
, Temple
We arrived in Shanghai 2008-07-11 05:56:08 After 10,5 hours of flying we finally arrived in the city of Shanghai
. At the airport we took the Maglev train to go to Long Yang Road Station, it took about 8 minutes at a speed of 430 km/ph to get there. We then took a taxi to our hostel, I was so smart to NOT bring the adress of our hostel in Chinese haha. Luckily I received a confirmation sms from Hostelworld.com which also contained the numbe
Shanghai here we come! 2008-07-10 01:34:36 Margot already packed her backpack and mine is still empty. Today at 5:30pm Air Berlin will take us from Dusseldorf Airport to Shanghai
Pudong Airport. We will write the next post when we arrive in Shanghai, but for now I am going to continue with packing my backpack.
Kyoto the city of temples 2008-08-04 12:09:00 Kyoto is the former capital city of Japan and it's a city full of temples. We went to the Golden Palace and the Zen Garden, which was beautifull (like last year :-p ). After that we went to Inari (about 15 minutes from Kyoto) and visited Fushimi Inari which is an area full of temples and shrines. We walked to the top and enjoyed the beautifull skyline of Kyoto city. Read more:Kyoto
Miyajima and A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima 2008-08-04 11:54:32 There are not so many hostels in Hiroshima and most of them were full or too expensive. We stayed in Fukuoka and just went to Hiroshima for one day. We visited the holy Miyajima Island which is full of deers and beautifull nature. After that we went to the A-Bomb Dome which is a building that survived the atom bomb attack of America in 1945.
Sunshine in Fukuoka 2008-08-04 09:47:28 It was about 35 degrees celcius in Fukuoka and we went to the beach a few times. It was quite hot but we gained a nice tan. Near the beach there is Fukuoka Tower and at the top you can see the skyline of Fukuoka City. About 10 minutes walking from the tower where is the Disaster Prevention Center where you can experience an earthquake, a typhone or be a firefighter. Most of the visitors were child
Goodbye Korea 2008-08-04 09:28:48 We had a very nice week in Korea
and there were allot of things to do in Seoul. We took the train to Busan and we met some very nice Korean people (see pictures). From Busan we took the JR Beetle Ferry and we arrived within 3 hours in Fukuoka. Read more:Goodbye
Hello Kitty exhibition Seoul 2008-08-04 09:11:19 We went to the top of the highest skyscraper in Seoul
. This building is called the 63 building with 63 floors. At the top there was a funny HelloKitty
exhibition with allot of paintings and items. It was a bit foggy so the view was not that perfect. The 63 building also has a aquarium and a cinema so we enjoyed our stay very much. Read more:Hello Kitty
Karaoke in Korea 2008-07-24 23:54:20 Karaoke is the Japanese word for...Karaoke, in Korea
they call it "noraebang" which has exactly the same meaning. We just couldn't resist to go to a karaoke place and sing our hearts out. They offered a small room with a big book full of songs and 4 screens that were showing the lyrics of the song. The room also contained a tambourine to make it extra funky when you tap with the beat. We can reall
Welcome to Korea 2008-07-24 23:43:12 After 2 hours flying from Beijing we arrived in Incheon, a city nearby Seoul. From there it takes about 100 minutes by airport shuttle bus to go to Seoul. We stayed in a Best Western hotel which costs us about 13 euro a night per person!, that's what a call cheap for a 3 star hotel. We have been to several temples and did some good old shopping at souvenir shops. Monday the 28th of July we will ta Read more:Korea
, Welcome
The Summer Palace in Beijing 2008-07-24 23:27:15 The SummerPalace
was the summer resort owned by the imperial family. This is not just one palace but it contains a big lake, bridges an tons of palaces. We took a bus from Qianmen Square which took us to the palace within one hour. I recommend to buy the ticket which also contains entrance to other halls and palaces and not just the general summer palace entry. Overall the Summer Palace was very Read more:Beijing
The Forbidden City in Beijing 2008-07-24 23:10:43 This day was sunny and dry so it was the perfect day to go to the Forbidden
City. In front of the city there is a huge picture of our big "friend" Mao Zedong. The Forbidden City was the imperial palace during the Qing and Ming dynasty. It took us a few hours to walk around in the city because it was huge!. At the end of the city there is a beautiful garden but unfortunately it was filled with tour Read more:Beijing
Rain in Beijing 2008-07-24 22:52:21 We were trying to go to the Forbidden City but then a heavy rainfall hit us!. Luckily a illegal umbrella seller on a bike sold us a nice umbrella, but the rain was so heavy that we eventually were soaking wet. When we ran back to our hostel and discovered that the sink in our room was full of dirty water from the sewer. Read more:Beijing
Fame on STA Travelbuzz 2008-09-08 08:57:07 The website STA Travelbuzz used a part of my blog for their website.
Back from Asia 2008-09-08 08:02:36 Some ask me why there were no updates after my Kyoto post. Well I have few simple explanations for that: Mostly I was too tired to even crawl behind a (mostly slow) computer to add a post with stories and picture. Next time I will just bring my own laptop to keep my blog up-to-date because most computers at hostels really suck.
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