Roadtrip Preparations

Last time I posted an update, I just got fired from my job. When I said goodbye to Christoffer and Mikkel, we'd already agreed we were going to meet again and travel together for a while. Without these two great guys, my stay at the farm…

Tough Times in Harvest

I just got fired from the job. It's no surprise and no disappointment. To the contrary, I saw it coming for a while and I'm glad to get out of here and move onto something fun. Let me go over what happened the past weeks though. Me and the farmer…

Harvest Bootcamp

I'm in a 50-ton truck, thundering down a long dirt road between the fields. Darkness is approaching and so is the thunderstorm that has been looming over the horizon for the past hour. Two kangaroos hop along my truck. I hope they don't…

Visiting Oz

I've just been through a whirlwind one and a half weeks. I'm in Australia, on a small farm near Murgon in Queensland. Ever since It became clear I'd be taking my life in a new direction, I've been planning a lot of different things, but by far…

Journey To Mount Athos Pt. 2

Continued from Part 1. We awoke in Vatopediou after being plagued by mosquitos; the room right under the roof was very hot so the windows had to be left open. Breakfast follows the same idea as dinner: a service is conducted and breakfast…

Journey to Mount Athos Pt. 1

When my father offered to take me along to on this trip, I couldn't refuse. I knew from his previous visits this was quite a special place, so it makes for a very different trip than my previous ventures so far. Mount Athos is a Orthodox…

Skrunda-1

As I mentioned before in Latvia, I would come back to posting about this place! Skrunda-1 is the site of a Soviet closed city that was attached to two Soviet 'Dnepr' (NATO: Hen House) Radar installations. The town housed all associated staff…

Day 14 – 15 Luxembourg & Belgium

This is probably the least adventurous part of the trip, the last 2 days from Germany back to the final destination Ghent, in Belgium, but for the sake of being complete I'm adding it as well. The last day in Germany we were confronted…

Day 10 – 13 Germany

I've been in Germany the past 4 days, here's what happened. The sim card I bought the first day was more than 10 times as expensive as in Poland and I've barely had any decent reception, so this update comes on the first night of decent WiFi! I…