Hello everyone, it has been a while! I was planned to write since last week but I got a cold last week which didn't allow me to write anything. Feria Internacional de David The "Feria Internacional de David" (David's International Fair) started on March 12th. It was the 54th annual fair held in the city of David and it lasts for 10 days. What's the fair all about? It's a big area surrounded by high walls, filled with stands where they sell food, drinks, handicrafts, clothes etc. etc...all kinds of (cultural) stuff. There is also a small theme park with different attractios and the well known open-air disco's are there too: Pub Herrerano (P.H) and X-Zone Sensation. I went to the fair 8 of the 10 days, visiting P.H but also walking around the place. It's ... read more

Bon dia everyone, It has been a while and a lot happened! Last days of January/first days of February - Panama On a Thursday evening, just a few hours before I had to board the bus to Panama City I got an injury at my ankle. I was playing volleyball and jumped to block a guy smashing from the other side. His feet crossed under the net and I landed with my left foot on his foot. I couldn’t walk the moment that happened, I had to sit down for a few minutes. My ankle got swollen and was hurting quite a lot. I did the trip to Panama City anyway, and Eybis arranged a doctor for me at her work. I had to take x-ray pictures of the foot at the hospital, buy an ankle ... read more

Hello everyone, Where shall I start? Well I bought new contact lenses but they didn’t arrive yet. They are hard contact lenses and the one for my right eye is special. They are being made in Mexico and sent by courier. It costed me less than the half the price compared to The Netherlands, which is a good thing. I also went once to the ophthalmologist to check my eye pressure, everything was fine! I already got my money back from Delta Airlines, and after all I lost only about € 30. They didn’t charge US$50 because of cancelling the ticket and I also got back the money I paid as tax, which was € 67. The best thing was that I demanded them to pay me back in Euro’s, which they did. I got the ... read more

Hello there, Finally I arrived in The Netherlands safe and well today, after being stranded during a week! It was a very long, stressful and tiring week! I also got a cold in Bangkok, which only made the whole situation even worse. Cathay Pacific previously booked me for Sunday, but the protests at the airport kept on going so I couldn’t leave Bangkok on Sunday. The situation became worse. There were protesters also at the government building in the city, which they occupied since August. There was a grenade explosion there, which killed one and left about 50 injured. Then the protesters left the government building to join the other protesters at the airport. Both airports, Suvarnabhumi (international) and Dong Muang (domestic) were closed due to the protests. The protesters increased their presence at the airport ... read more

Good day all, Welcome to Republika ng Pilipinas (Republic of Philippines)!!! I spent a total of 12 days in this beautiful country. The Philippines consist of more than 7.000 islands with a total population of about 90 million, excluding the ca. 1,5 million Filipinos working overseas. The currency is the Philippine Piso (PHP). US$ 1 = PHP 49 and € 1 = 62 PHP during my stay in the country. The president here is a woman, called Gloria Arroyo, who is in power since 2001. Philippines once had the second largest economy in Asia after Japan, but since dictator Ferdinand Marcos came to power in mid 1960’s the economy only went worse and worse. Today it’s growing at a fast pace again and belongs to one of the NIC’s (Newly Industrialized Countries). Ninoy Aquino, a politician ... read more