Das schones leben die selbstbedienung heist.

Op het groenteblog. Het bijbehorende bordje op de winkelkar meldt min of meer of men een beetje wil opletten deze particuliere groentes niet al te hard te verstoren.

Readers probably know I’m traveling now since april 2010 more or less, so time to celebrate I’ve been moving around for a year now. Just as a reminder what alternatives are there and what you could’ve been doing instead of earning profits for your bosses. Believe me it’s not that expensive and clearly cheaper than usual living in the Netherlands.

This post is dedicated to all the lovely people I have met on my way. By listing all places I’ve been shorter or longer is remembering that a year is a pretty long time (instead of popular complaint) and all the people, adventures, stories and fun which are behind the names of the place. After all a place is just a place somewhere, but who and what you can find there makes it truly magic.

So there goes:

Amersfoort, Apeldoorn, Deventer, Holten, Rijssen, Enschede, Bad Bentheim, Rheine, Hobsten, Osnabruck, Lintorf, Lubbecke, Porta Westfalica / Minden, Obernkirchen, Hameln, Eschershausen, Afeld, Bad Gandersheim, Seesen, Goslar, Bad Harzburg, Ilsenburg, Wernigerode, Ballenstedt, Lutherstadt Eisleben, Halle (Saale), Desslau, Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Budapest, Erd, Szentendre (-Sziget), Belgrado, Pancevo, Sarajevo, Maribor, Ljubljana, Bohin, Kloden, London, Oranjestad, Sint Nicolaas, Willemstad, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Taganga, Tolu, Medellin, Manizales, Jamundi, Cali, Popayan, San Augustin, Bogota, Pasto, Otavalo, Quito, Macas, Santiago, Puerto Galileo, Santa Maria de Nieva, Saramariza, Tarapoto, Chachapoyas, Piurra, Loja, Cuenca, Guayaquil, Montanita, Puerto Lopez, Quevedo, Ambato, Banos, Riobamba, Chiclayo, Trujillo, Nuevo Chimbote, Casma, La Union, Huanoco, Tingo Maria, Junin, La Merced, Huancayo.

I didn’t include a few small towns, but I hope I didn’t forgot locations where I met cool people.

The Teufelsberg in West-Berlin has an interesting history and probably the coolest abandoned place to visit in the city. Be sure to read to wiki about this place! Photo’s also proudly stolen from Marleen and Sarah.

Last saturday a demonstration started from five different places in Berlin. The starting points where all places being threatened by megalomanic buildings plan and neoliberal use of the spree riverside. We departed from Kunsthaus Tacheles, which is threatened by closure in four weeks. It was a colorful party-like march to show the city what it will miss if it squanders it’s cultural diversity, it’s open spaces and clubs. Exactly the thing that makes Berlin still an unique place opposed to most other West-European cities which look exactly the same. The imagine-less corporate-landscape. Anyhow, the march (38 degrees celcius) ended in cool-down waterfight in a fountain.

The Teufelsberg in West-Berlin has an interesting history and probably the coolest abandoned place to visit in the city. Be sure to read to wiki about this place! Photo’s also proudly stolen from Marleen and Sarah.