| 52 ° 8 'N, 5 ° 27' E February 22, 2010, 22:22 Last Saturday was our 'we go on a world' party and now is the time it really slowly come "until December" to tell people. With all the tensions and turmoil we have chosen the first night in Moscow to take a hotel anyway. We can relax a little easier. Today I have my father explained how A: my laptop, and how Skype functoineerd. Although we have skype out and we can just call to regular phones ... if we want to talk with a webcam is handy that he knows how. Furthermore, I just found a site that does not quite what we want but it seems to be that you are now able to follow via Twitter. Therefore how much you can read about us ... it still means that I say goodbye to your life ... because I can not as extensive tracking. Tomorrow is a day of fun with friends and then the last injection and returned to Enschede. We are a week away ... but it's too weird for words. Well, it will all be off leash only brand that I am busy with not much that we are gone, but with even more away. Seems also normal. Many people today the mail last Saturday said they were jealous ... luckily there were a number of the negative aspects of the journey were able to sufficiently illuminate us too much to be envied. Thanks for the reality check  I go to sleep, tomorrow is another night and less then 1 night and then I see my sweetheart again. juutsel | Posted in The journey | 3 Comments » 51 ° 51 'N, 4 ° 38' E 13 February 2010, 21:29 Today was the first big test to see whether I did or not people blood. This kind of testing is traditionally performed by a needle with a nasty finger to fruition, but at a somewhat cumbersome way: by traveling long distances with limited luggage. Strictly speaking, the test was not entirely adequate for today: I have a smaller distance a rather extensive luggage transported. My stuff, to be exact. Our stuff had a trip to Den Bommel. And lack of furniture (and toasters) we live after that trip now with my mom's attic. Anyway, the result is: yes, that is to say so. Unfortunately, the test is not quite properly conducted. Yesterday afternoon, the cause remains unknown, I went through my back. Fri annoying. It made the whole affair a bit rough and painful, and it is certain that he is therefore not a realistic picture of my trip talent shows. Even so glad that everything is in roughly the same number of parts has arrived in which it has gone and we now carry on work not have to think. The countdown clock has now become again a few decibels louder, it seems. Only 12 days and then it goes off. Five days still work. What a relief, but what a crazy idea too. The next two weeks, the day every day a little more loose and free people are going to seem less and less and the life we have in two centuries were accustomed to live. It's quite exciting, but the smell of adventure - even my nose picks him up - arouses desire. michiel Dewit | Tags: Toaster , Clock , Storage , Back , Moving
Posted in The journey | 1 Comment » 51 ° 47 'N, 4 ° 37' E February 4, 2010, 22:36 Nearly two months ago I spent a whole afternoon applying for various visas that we should have to come abroad (for loyal readers, December 7: "visa"). The phenomenon you plan from the world bank / behind your laptop again proved wonderfully effective. So the whole time we were able to track the travels took our passports and when they would leave the embassy by simply logging into a website. Last week came the good news ... our passports were back on their way home. They travel these days more than we, but we have patience. When we ordered the visas we have given the address of my mother because we did not know where we would live. We immediately called Monday if anything had arrived, but bad news. "Registered mail will not lose touch," I sometimes hear people say, but in my experience is not true. Tuesday there was nothing inside, so we have only sent an email. Yesterday a phone call, the passports were sent to the old address to be and come back because no one lives there. Where could they go the passports now send email transmitted and thus came vnadaag a tough man of the TNT for my autograph. Envelop, passports out and looking at pictures (attached letter which said that I immediately had to check if errors were not ignoring). Stress. ... Because we have another train dates booked for travel between Irkutsk (Russia) and Ulan Bator (Mongolia). We arrive in Ulaanbaatar on January 10 on, and our visa but extends to the ninth for Russia. After a phone call to the visa service (gee, they're hard on it in Russia, if you are a tourist staying illegally ...), I was really worried. As a true couch surfer I have searched the organization where we have booked the tickets to find out that I do not go to Great Britain to email or call but that I can go to an interview via Skype. Let's see if that tickets could be done yet. What was all panic enit,. You came to us on January 10 in Ulaanbaatar, but we took the slow train, which departs on Jan. 8, and sometime after midnight we cross the border with Mongolia. Reassured and still a little surprised about the technique I was moving back into the bank ... to Russia with love, but then we must also wegkunnen again. juutsel | Tags: Russia , visas
Posted in The journey | No Comments » 51 ° 47 'N, 4 ° 37' E February 4, 2010, 22:31 The pre-travel day today in brief: New bike in 's-Gravendeel, passports (with visas) finally returned, a successful presentation without bosses. Maybe I have a brief explanation. Headlines work better on TV than here, with me on my white screen. This morning, in the early morning, there were "workers" engaged in the bus station 's Gravendeel (Bus Station is a euphemism for a loop bulge in the road where buses ever seen). They were new bicycle racks at the sites. Just before the elections is of course only expected decisiveness, which citizens can also get it, even if it holds five souls unreasonably asked them to warm cloths off. The whole operation matineuze explains why I had lost my bike yesterday. Probably the same laborers (or relatives), all with drag bike run. Furthermore, little interested. That the visas are ready is bigger news. We were there quite a bit of time on waiting. Via the Internet we faithfully followed the movements of our passports through embassies in The Hague and Brussels. This afternoon we could see the stickers and stamps the tangible evidence of the wanderlust of our identity documents are taken into consideration. Beautiful! Digital images will follow soon, though I warn now that the holograms that both the Russians and the Mongols on their visa stickers have probably put bits and bytes will do less well. Incidentally, the red books by mistake to our old house - now boarded up and ready for scrapping - sent, by registered mail, though. And the last topic: presentation of my "product" to my colleagues this afternoon. That sounds grander than it was. Actually it was a chat with some pots pictures of the magic lantern to the whole thing a bit more official to make. Tasty (but not all that tasty) stroopwafels leukten the event a little further. The two bosses of the big run-your-rot in our game that is played on the case were both excused themselves. Something with brown beans and exhaust. Anyway, it was three quarters friendly to me moreover once again gave the opportunity to brag about our travel plans and the ever-dwindling number of days that alvor reality. Just one day ... michiel Dewit | Tags: Embassy , bike , passport , presentation , visas , work
Posted in General , The journey | No Comments » 51 ° 49 'N, 4 ° 39' E 2 February 2010, 20:58 Yesterday morning I was unpleasantly surprised by a toy from Google, my agenda to be exact. For a time I swore with paper diaries, disappointed by the electronic alternatives, but last year with my Google Calendar were home provider. Anyway, I was an appointment with the GGD to have Google told me about fifteen minutes before the appointment. With some good will and an Arriva bus on time, I was still before nine in the GGD office. I was an appointment to have a Rabies Vaccination and malaria advice. An expensive appointment! Malaria appeared to me to cost € 3.60 each and no fewer than 50 in my bag would be silly to not be affected Ria. Horribly expensive. I felt very guilty when I checkout. We rich Westerners can still pay for these pills, but it is certainly not for the people who live in malaria areas. Judica pointed me to a news release today: " Malaria patents lifted. "Quite by chance and message me at least relieved of my guilt. Similarly bale Well I still think a lot of money so I had to count down to, essentially, nothing to get. Now we are waiting until Rabies Vaccination also less expensive: 180 euros for 3 vaccinations, is not that theft? michiel Dewit | Tags: GGD , vaccinations , malaria
Posted in The journey | No Comments » January 30 2010, 22:54 An ordinary Saturday. For some then, for our Saturday was, as many days today, certainly not normal. Since mid 2008 we started planning our trip around the world, every day is special. This Saturday was a trip around the world Saturday. The world. These weekend day, we arranged our trip from behind the screen. Details, perhaps, but not unimportant matters. Judica has made contact with option 3 on our list of potential places to stay Muscovite. Our hotel in Beijing is now settled and for a small problem that we saw with charging Judica's camera, we also have an elegant solution / gadget found. What a small world is it. Everything can be controlled from the easy chair. Only the actual travel needs - how poor! - Still to be done outside. That means suffering, dirty feet and only at night from the couch from the photos the day experience. Hmm. What does a man himself  Oh, and today I have my MiniMe cleared and travel prepared. Too late now to even go back on my decision for a mini laptop to take to the Far East (from where it is probably little need). Since today is running Windows 7 on it and that's great! Everything works smoothly and quickly and all looks very slick. Only those small keys remain accustomed. Every fifth word I try to get on the screen, my fingers get tangled: do mini me! Dewit michelle | Posted in The journey | No Comments » January 21, 2010, 21:56 By the light of the major fundraising today controls the media yesterday and today I have some work done on the site. Perfectionism is primarily the reason why the site was never completely finished will come, but it surely is fun. There is a mini-card added to each message indicates exactly where it comes from. For now still buy all posts by s-Gravendeel, but within five weeks we hope to change this. Today for the first time one week back to work was. That's where the wear of my contract days too slowly to be felt. Every so often a colleague asks me: "What about the preparations for the trip?" With a tingling sense of inadequacy I confess that there is not much more to settle falls. Most of it is also regulated, I think. How much should be regulated? Just let's go, right? Oh, a Mantoux test done. I was thinking of a scratch in the arm with a quick answer to the question if I have TB, but an outdated image appears. It was an intradermal injection! My God, what a situation. And then come back Monday for the results. And that is to literally, I understood. The test provides a rash if I have TB. Yet nothing. No surprise. Dewit michelle | Posted in About the site , for the trip | 2 Comments » 51 ° 47 'N, 4 ° 37' E 20 January 2010, 19:09 We leave, we are really on this trip. In some ways it seems so unreal, because our life now consists of s normal things like work, friends, shopping, groceries and other things. But about 40 days will not be so. We are excited and tense, the tension is getting reëeler. I'd like to think this trip me more insight into the meaning of life and sense of clarity about what and how I want in my life. In the Netherlands there is a TV show, 'Boundless Love', which is about the Dutch people who fall in love with a foreigner and decide to move there and let it all behind. These people, especially women, often moving to a country where living standards are to say the least lower than normal. Naja, standard of living, luxuries. I admire that ... but life is there and seems so much simpler. If you live in a small town, why would you need to have a mobile phone? You can also just walk around. Let alone that video chatting over the Internet is to explain. You pay money to be able to communicate with someone with whom you can go along. Life seems more pure there. I hope we on our journey opnieuew in touch with what is pure, and less jaded ... because somehow it seems we live in a reality close to the reality of 'The Matrix' is. Yes we have a few choices, but the most important decisions are made by companies and governments who are imbued with political games and self-interest ... at all. Today I have seen the film Avatar, which was very good. The movie shook me awake. In children's books and perfect worlds, it is always human nature, or that otherwise beautiful eits aanvalt.en it is always the "others" who rescue and help nature to survive. That should say something about us ... we teach children that nature is good, but most of these kids barely have time to see real nature. Argh ... I'm running through my brains and try to stop. This website is about the journey preparations and of course about my philosophical corridors. I hope this trip will teach me to reassess my life and help me decide where and how I want to live from then on. juutsel | Posted in The journey | No Comments » 51 ° 47 'N, 4 ° 37' E January 10, 2010, 18:27 The new year has started and the journey feels closer now than last week. Yesterday was the bar and angry again, but some people have super handshcoenen hat and pulled out of the closet and help us get to our previous anti-squat building and clearing all the stuff to bring to the store. It was, notably through the efforts of everyone, really very good and apart from what pain is completely gone great. We arrived in the afternoon again. ... And my love had the great idea to give a little more gas than necessary. ... And we glided. We pushed through and turning .. quiet and slow but not stop until 180 degrees on the road we take a tune from the curb stop. A big dent in the rim ... but you still have us by the MOT. Today we sit back in and do other important things ... tax ... our website and what muscles to relax. Tomorrow back to work ... still six weeks to work and that's where I still can enjoy.  juutsel | Posted in The journey | No Comments » 51 ° 43 'N, 4 ° 17' E January 10, 2010, 18:26  Last weekend we once again moved. Moving stuff, preferably in boxes, is a hobby for us to be. In recent months we have so often packed with all kinds of crap that I run drag on my tax return this afternoon really just wondering if my application is for "removal" should be changed. Our furniture is now spread across the country. A portion is here in 's-Gravendeel and a larger part is stored in an old refrigerator in Den Bommel (a village in the heart with a bronze statue of Mr. Olivier B. Bommel). Our refrigerator has number 29. Same number as our house here in 's-Gravendeel and also the day Judica and I were born. A nice coincidence. Now I prepare a dinner for our anti-squat stove. What our house might be forced to do without taste, I still try to bring in the meal. Usually with not much result. Even so, I appreciate in this cold, barren days our (temporary) roof even more. Dewit michelle | Posted in The journey | No Comments » | |
