For sure you’ve met people during your travels who kept recommending another much better place, the so-called must-see. Otherwise you shouldn't really claim that you have been in that country if you skipped that highlight. To be honest, I always hesitated when someone asked me about my personal travel highlight. I could never really understand this [...]
“I, I… I've already explained everything to you. I shouldn't be here at all. Yesterday I gave a lecture at the Caribbean coast. And today I'm on my way home to Europe. Please believe me. It's a coincidence that I ended up in Medellin. And I don't know why I met the Escobar family. Okay, [...]
I’m listening attentively when young backpackers talk enthusiastically about their authentic travel experiences in other countries - being far away from mass tourism: farm work in New Zealand, camping in Patagonia or couch surfing in Paris. They claim to have experienced the real country, the real culture and romanticized the exotic otherness. I’ve also found [...]
My vacation time literally ended with the return flight from Bangkok to Vienna. The booking ticket contained a six-hour stay in the Western Chinese city of Urumqi. Wonderful, I thought. What others annoy about stopovers means kind of a bonus for me: I’m able to see a new corner of the world from above. In [...]
