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Bee visited Buenos Aires on a short trip in 2018 and told me on her return that I would like it. I imagined it more like Montevideo turned out to be, and in some ways,… Read More »Buenos Aires – buena vida!

I love the Vipassana course concept because, although the meditation was taught by Gautama Buddha, the meditation itself is completely secular in its nature. Vipassana courses are based on donations and all the people who… Read More »My Vipassana Experience in Argentina

We stayed in Barrio Sur, a very lively neighborhood known for Candombe, a Uruguayan form of drumming and dancing. Every Sunday evening until after 11:00PM, I heard the loud beating of the drums from our… Read More »Montevideo, the unassuming little gem among the Latin American capitals

Our arrival at Lake Atitlán was awful. We both got the flu (we think). We were vomiting and not sure if we had food poisoning. Which brings me to the first downside of nomadic living… Read More »The downsides of nomad life

“LAKE COMO, it seems to me, touches the limit of the permissibly picturesque, but Atitlan is Como with the additional embellishment of several immense volcanoes. It is really too much of a good thing.” So… Read More »Lake Atitlán

Growing up in a very political family, where discussions were led with lots of emotions on a daily basis, for the longest time I was convinced that this kind of political engagement was good and… Read More »Nicaragua: Ringing in 2023

Time is passing at high speed, even when you try to take it slow by adhering to the national Costa Rican motto “Pura Vida,” which means something along the line of pure/simple life. Tamarindo was… Read More »12 months on the road

I always felt I am not a high rise person, always preferred Brooklyn to Manhattan and what seemed to me to be cuter parts of various cities with shorter buildings. Well, that changed here in… Read More »Hot November

When I was about 19 years old, I learned yoga in my hometown of Graz from a Dutch teacher, who became a very good friend and an influential person in my life. Since he was… Read More »Medellín or Rishikesh

Our landlord decided to start construction in the house during our stay. Once, water came through the ceiling in the dining room and whole walls were torn down with a hammer next to our apartment.… Read More »La belleza está en la calle

Our Paris apartment was one of the smallest apartments so far, comparable to the size of the one we stayed in Madrid. Ironically I got sick in both of them, this time with COVID. I’m… Read More »From Paris to Bogotá

I am not a coffee connoisseur by any means, but I like to have a good cup of coffee, and by a good cup, I don’t mean filter coffee. We can’t pick our apartments based… Read More »Espresso Dream Come True

I am sitting in the TGV train from Bordeaux to Paris, traveling at 320 kph (199 mph) and thinking to myself “that’s the way transportation has to be in Europe”. 2.5 times faster than a… Read More »Trains, Friends, Yoga and Port Wine

We are approaching our last day in Lisbon. What started a bit chilly and rainy has turned into full-on summer weather. In the beginning we had to start the gas heater in the living room… Read More »In Need of Exercise

We arrived in Madrid 4 weeks ago and really liked the city from the beginning. The vibe is very relaxed and the people are very friendly. There are a million restaurants and bars and of… Read More »Digital Nomad Needs Digital Detox

After traveling for over 30 hours, with a long layover in Atlanta and a short one in Amsterdam, we made it back to Vienna for a 1.5-day stopover, before I headed out on a 15-hour… Read More »Concerts

I am on day 23 of my Duolingo Spanish streak and I can actually formulate a few useful things by now, sometimes make myself understood and sometimes understand locals. I might take classes at some… Read More »Art

It’s good to be out of Europe. Europeans are often so Euro-centric and tend to think the whole universe rotates around this continent. I am very happy to have a huge distance to Europe here… Read More »Out of Europe

When a friend asked me if I would be blogging, since we are going to have a (digital) nomadic life now and visit a lot of different places, I told her “I don’t think so,… Read More »Start of a Journey