Experience
motivation, mindset, dealing with problems, improvisation
The pictures I didn’t take.
Do you have it too? On once-in-a-lifetime-moments you either don’t have a camera or you forget to take a picture? Here is my top 5 of these moments…
Crossing from Stroma to Swona
The sea and currents around the Orkney islands can be very traitorous even if you are a well trained seakayaker. In this post our adventures on the crossing between Stroma and Swona.
Drive-thru nature
What kind of traveller are you? One that stays in your comfortzone or one that ventures out?
The waves are alive with the sound of singing.
Throw mindfulness out of the window! We should all be singing when fear gets to us.
FAQ’s on hygiene, lowering my standards
How to cope with with persenol hygiene while kayaking for 5 weeks and having no showers
Trouble in paradise
Prelude The sky turns slowly in the color of a big black bruise, Ominous and threatening on the horizon, while we peddle over the to…
Climbing Ben Nevis
O noooo, wind force 8 predicted…and I am in a kayak on Cape Wrath!!! We must escape before the storm hits the coast! Early in…
Silence is a troublemaker
‘Our thinking is like a boat on the water, pushed along by the waves and influenced by the wind.’ Hazrat Inayat Khan And what happens…
The love boat
A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it’s built for. — Albert Einstein or John A. Shedd. I always…
The naked lady on the beach
Travelling by kayak involves a lot of changing from one outfit to another. Usually, I have a dry set of clothes on land and a…