After the unwelcome and unanticipated delay, Nelson and I finally boarded a train that would take us to the city of Naarden, the ancient capital of Holland before Amsterdam became its capital and also the capital of the entire country of the Netherlands. Though yesterday had been a very productive day in terms of the video production work needed for our upcoming International Broadcast Conference, I was not totally happy with our windmill shots in Volendam. The otherwise great-looking windmill there was not in service and provided only very static shots for our video. Through some overnig [View Full Entry]

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Pick a place ... since my last trip in Guizhou China, completely last minute and unplanned I had only one thing in mind: do it again! China national holidays gave the perfect excuse and three days prior we indeed picked a place: Xishuangbanna here we come! An exotic name for a destination described as "A tropical and minority area, far away from the rest of China". Guess the word "tropical" and "far away" convinced Cedric and I to give it a try! Day 1: Arrival in Jinhong Early morning wake up, flight to Kunming from Shanghai followed by a 45 mn [View Full Entry]

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