“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
When I first started surfing about three years ago I knew that this new hobby was here to stay. In the years that followed I began choosing travel destinations mainly base don wave power and water temperature and grew to know some of the best surf spots around the world. During my recent surf trip I …
These past weeks, I’ve been feeling like a robot. The same routine every day: going to work, doing sports, writing university applications, eating, waiting for him to call and not sleeping enough. I’d been having headaches on the daily and my motivation was on its very lowpoint. It was exactly the moment when a travelette knows just what she needs to do: GET THE HELL OUT OF TOWN!
The timing could …
You are strong and beautiful, you stand tall, are full of surprises and you are famous around the world. Dear Grand Canyon, I have a confession to make… when I first saw you I got butterflies in my stomach, my legs were shaking and couldn’t stop staring at you… for hours! You got me and will remain in my heart forever….
My first trip to the grandest of canyons was about …
DAS FEST in Karlsruhe, Germany, has taken place every year since it started in 1985. It is one of the largest open-air festivals in Germany with approximately 212,000 visitors last year.
Different than many other festivals, DAS FEST was established with the aim to offer something for every age class despite their socioeconomic background, which is why it has always been free to attend. Only recently was it forced to charge …
There is nothing that awakens my desire more than the ocean. If I could I would move to the beach in this very moment. I would get up early in the morning to go surfing and spent hours and hours in the wonderful sea. Unfortunately not all our dreams can come true – but there are ways to overcome our nostalgia. One of my favourite things to do is to …
You look down … the world slowly passes by…. you see fields, small villages, a forest, little moving points on the ground… you look up and the air is filled with hundreds of colourful spots around you… listening to the sound of a flame you are rising higher above the ground … the person next to you says something, but you are too taken by what is around you that …
As you probably have heard, the UK is well known for its dish fish and chips and there are hundred of restaurants, pubs and corner shops offering this. Finding the perfect fish and chips turned out to be quite a challenge, but after a while I luckily found my favourite place, a restaurant called ‘Poppies‘ situated in the East End, just around the corner from Brick Lane – a …
Going camping to me has always meant one thing: a nice and relaxing holiday in the countryside. There are others apparently to whom that idea just doesn’t cut it. Adrenaline lovers around the world are getting more and more into a hobby that is not for the faint-hearted – a windy way of getting a good night’s sleep called ‘high mountain extreme camping’.
For this you attach a so-called portaledge, a …
“We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon” is what Konrad Adenauer once said.
I am always amazed with the beautiful view above the clouds, be it while sitting on an airplane, climbing up a volcano or going on a ski trip. There is always a certain calmness, which makes you feel free and happy. As I have recently been on a ski holiday …
“Let’s leave the Caribbean Sea behind and go suuuuurfing”.
My friend and I spent some beautiful relaxing days at the turquoise Caribbean Coast and thought it was time for some action. To no surprise we found ourselves on a two-days trip towards one of the most famous surfer towns in all of Mexico: Puerto Escondido. It is located at the Pacific Coast in the Mexican state of Oaxaca and even though …
