Owner: Robino Around The World URL:http://robokow.net Join Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:46:05 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: Photo-blog and Travel-blog of Robino Robokow who is traveling around the world through hitchhiking and couchsurfing. Site statistics:Click here
Being Stateless 2007-06-12 08:02:13 Traveling for four months to get to Istanbul, and once I get there I take a plane back to Barcelona. What’s up? The past ten days I spend my time in my old town, my old residence-town, one of the best cities to live in Europe, Barcelona. To spend some time with my [...]
Hey stranger 2007-06-05 05:00:13 “There are no strangers.” It is one of my favourite sayings. Have you ever been on your own wondering around a town, a city or countryside? Imagine being lost, and someone walking up to you and helping you out, telling you how to walk or maybe giving you some water or even a [...]
Breathing Istanbul 2007-05-29 08:15:41 Children playing everywhere, families in the parks eating fish that the men just caught in the Bosphorus strait, busy markets and streets, and smoke of waterpipes all around you. Istanbul is not only a very beautiful city, but foremost a very active one with a lively outdoor culture. It breathes life in every [...]
Picking Cherries 2007-05-22 06:36:04 Lying in a tree, picking cherries. How wonderful life can be. One day earlier, in Belgrade, I didn’t even know I was going to be in this place as I was trying to hitch out of Serbia, to Macedonia. But there I was, a day before departure to Istanbul, in a cherrytree in [...] Read more:Picking
, Cherries
Le Grand Finale 2007-05-18 08:31:30 Hitchhiking in the middle of the night! Never had I really done it before. Always do I calculate my travel in such a way that I would be sure to arrive at my destination or to have my final ride, within the last hour after sunset, just before it really gets dark. But [...] Read more:Grand
, Finale
Finally Turkey 2007-05-11 10:02:06 Turkey, finally I made it! The border of the Ottoman empire used to be here in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade. Although almost three hundred years ago for the last time, those in total five-hundreds years left a great influence without a doubt.
It had already started in Slovenia, with only two types [...] Read more:Finally
, Turkey
Zagreb: City in Transformation 2007-05-08 17:45:56 So I have heard the requests. You have seen enough buildings, birds, flowers, abstracts, waterfalls, sunsets and so on. Now it is time for a people-report! “We want to see how a city feels like from the viewpoint of those who live there. We want people-photos!” So I have heard, and so [...] Read more:Transformation
New Developments at Flickr 2007-06-18 07:23:57 As most of you are aware off, I have been using Flickr
extensively as a platform to post my travel-photos. Unfortunately, this might change now.
Since the 12th of June Flickr introduced a new feature: Flickr in multiple languages. Part of this new feature, they also introduced a new policy which has heavy effects [...]
At the Fishmarket 2007-06-21 04:25:00 “Can I invite you for a tea? It is on the house”. While I am shooting some struggling half-dead fish at the fish-market next to the Galata bridge in Istanbul, my mom - who just arrived a couple of hours ago - is already invited to sit somewhere for some tea. The guy shows [...]
Bikes, Horses and Feribot 2007-06-26 02:36:05 Feribot. The first Turkish Turkish word I learned along with Bir (one), Ekmek (bread) and Su (water). It was during my first Turkish lesson in a truck with a Turkish driver, while hitchhiking from Serbia to Istanbul (see Le Grand Finale).
Basically, when I saw a cyclist on the road, I asked him how that was [...] Read more:Horses
Life-cycles 2007-07-11 09:19:06 Periods come and periods go. It is the life-cycle of our planet and its nature, which we are part off. It is so obvious and forms such a big part of our lives that especially men tend to neglect and forget. But it is here and it affects us all in the end. [...]
What keeps me busy 2007-07-16 05:48:57 The past weeks have revealed to me a new or rather different scope of politics and photography.
Sunday morning in Istanbul and church bells wake me up. From the place I stay I can hear them not only on Sunday’s but sometimes on Thursday’s and Frıday’s too. A very familiar sound for me as I grew [...] Read more:keeps
Traveling Turkey 2007-07-26 07:31:00 No hot cities for now but relaxing in inland Turkey
and along the southcoast. Veronikis and I have been traveling for some days now and although the heat reaches hights that neither of us experienced before, we are suriving pretty well.
An overnight train brought us from Istanbul down to Dinizli where we are [...] Read more:Traveling
Hitchhing around Turkey 2007-08-01 08:02:25 With temperatures getting easily above 45 degrees we got excited and decided to hitchhike around the South Coast. It went perfect. It is a very good hitchhiking culture here and people stop easily.
We managed very well and ended in little towns such as Myra and Kekova without any planning and without knowing about these [...] Read more:Turkey
Back in Istanbul 2007-08-13 05:48:33 A wonderful travel of two weeks through the South of Turkey lies behind me. Together with Veronikis I have seen a beautiful part of Turkey. It totally surprised us to see such beautiful nature and often great Turkish hospitality.
As we went hitchhiking we met many very nice people who funnily enough at [...]
Wordpress Blocked in Turkey 2007-08-18 09:37:58 Time to leave Turkey
, as the Turkish state forcefully blocked my website robokow.net as well as all other websites using the blogging-services of wordpress.com. As per Friday the 17th of August access to Wordpress
has been blocked from computers that access the internet through Turkish Internet Providers.
I can no longer see my own [...] Read more:Blocked
Fishing Istanbul 2007-08-28 07:48:20 The three of us are sitting at the front of a small fishing boat, our feet in the water. The captain guides our boat to the fish, over the Marmara Sea with our back to the Topkapi Palace, the Blue Mosque and the Hagia Sofia.
In the meantime the captain’s son explains how [...] Read more:Fishing
Never Enough Istanbul 2007-09-02 11:32:51 It would be impossible to summarise Istanbul. There are only impressions, feelings and thoughts. No matter how many different perspectives we could acquire, there are simply too many different paths and lives here, to give a conclusion so sound that its people find their stories back into it.
A city this huge just makes [...] Read more:Enough
Istanbul rocks peace 2007-08-31 05:30:36 While the Istanbul heat was ever-present last weekend, I spend three days in a forest, enjoying the fresh shades of the trees and a refreshing breeze from over the hills.
Though, the forest was not empty as it was turned into a small town of fifty thousand, all there to enjoy the fifth edition [...]
Breakfast in Romania 2007-09-17 09:12:27 The main question people ask themselves here is: “Who was the real Dracula anyway?” For us the question rather is: “Where do people have breakfast?”
Walk around in any random city other than Bucharest and, really, you will have a very hard time finding a good place to have breakfast - even bakeries are hard [...] Read more:Breakfast
Castle Hunting 2007-09-11 11:54:58 Castles, you have them in all colors and forms. Hardly you can find two alike, and they have different stories and functions. Some come with stories of war and conquer, others rather look as if they were designed for a fairytale.
Hunting for castles is my new hobby. I like it and feel [...] Read more:Castle
On the railroad 2007-09-08 14:14:17 Seven in the morning and a loudspeaker wakes me up. This time they do not call me for prayer - as during the past three months in Turkey. I open my eyes I look outside and on the platform I see a blond woman on high heels and with a miniskirt.
Sure you have [...]
Fainting in Romania 2007-10-11 06:08:29 From a bike in Romania, back by plane to Holland. Happy I was, on a beautiful bike, cycling from village to village, over mountains and rivers, coming to places where no sane traveler would ever come, finding myself on that same very day, just after sunset, bleeding and scratched, screaming for help and fainting.
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Mill-Hunting Tour 2007-10-24 10:35:28 “Every week again I push my own borders”, the lady says when asked for the road. She is on her bike, cycling from Amsterdam to Abcoude, a tour of nearly 15 kilometer. “Every week I change the route a bit and each time I try to cycle a bit more. Maybe one day [...]
Space for Movement 2008-02-20 03:58:03 So much movement in so little time, it is like when sun and rain team up and show light in all colors. Slowly it builds up and bang it is there, right here, and I am in the midst of things, holding it in my own hands, realising it, fulfilling it.
A new job and at [...] Read more:Space
Not enough Rust 2008-02-10 14:37:36 Waking up… upset stomach… alcohol in blood… 4 am. My first working day, my value is added, my belly hurts. Almost lost a job once because of adding too much value at the bar, please fall back asleep, let’s remain one piece and enjoy the sun and beach!
8 am. A bug in my ear. [...]
Happy Rain 2008-01-22 09:21:50 Rain. It rains a lot in Holland. Winters are not so cold anymore as they used to be. Instead, there is just rain. So it rained for the past days. Also during the weekend. But it didn’t seem to effect life negatively. I noticed almost everyone smiling, as I walked to the Albert [...] Read more:Happy
Back in Amsterdam 2007-12-28 06:48:16 City of bike-lanes and water, my small town, I am back in your streets again, smiling. It took me five years and some months, but I am surrounded by ‘my own’ four Amsterdam
walls and roof-top. Por fin! Yes!
I am back loving it, I feel this is where I (well… for the moment at [...]
Mill Hunting 2007-10-24 10:35:28 “Every week again I push my own borders”, says a random lady who I just met and who is cycling from Amsterdam to Abcoude, a tour of nearly 15 kilometer. “Every week I change the route somewhat and each time I just try to cycle a bit more. Maybe one day I go [...]
Everywhere Published 2008-03-25 16:39:38 While traveling last year I discovered this great thing called photography, and it really hooked me. I started to see my surroundings with new eyes as I developed a new dimension of looking at the world.
So I noticed the many colors around me and I got intrigued by water, light, ducks, birds, scenes, children and [...]
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