Just a quick brain wave before you start reading: Why is it that if I put ‘free writing’ on top of the page I suddenly feel freer to write? Like I finally have permission to write whatever I like. Hmmm. Don’t know. *Bamm* Writer’s block lifted. Tadaaaa. But it works though. Anyway. I didn’t know […]
Ecotourism in the city? I used to think it wasn’t possible. Urban areas don’t usually come to mind when you think of the lush, green, protected areas that you normally associate with ecotourism. But recently I was pleasantly surprised by the possibilities of city ecotourism when I went on a hiking exploration of Rotterdam. Hiking […]
Right now I have so many options on my journey to Unf*ckwithable, Sustainable World Domination. I have so many questions. There is so much to do that I sometimes feel whelmed – not overwhelmed because that would mean I wouldn’t be able to handle it. Just whelmed by: all the possibilities. my doubts and fears. […]
After a long drive from Viñales to Cienfuegos (detouring via Playa Larga – Why? It’s CUBA), we finally arrived in Cienfuegos. Six hours in a super cold car (I detest air conditioning) had left me super grumbly and determined to hustle the best tour we could find to take us from Cienfuegos to Trinidad via […]
We all deal with it: Anxiety about if we’re doing things right; if we know/are enough (what some people call ‘The Imposter Syndrome’ or ‘Comparison-itis’); Basically, putting yourself down when you could be building yourself up. This post is about my experience with this debilitating practice and how my friends call me on it. Sitting […]
What I’ve learned in the last couple months is that it’s so important to listen to your body, your health, yourself and your needs. Sometimes you just need to take a step back, tone everything down – even the way you travel. In the spirit of ease, my boyfriend and I went on a long […]
My passions go from traipsing around a favela in Rio in 2004 to living on a semi-inhabited island in the Atlantic ocean in 2010, and trying to convince the Federal Police to please let me extend my stay in Brazil (which didn’t quite work out as I has hoped) in 2013! I love Latin America. I’m obsessed with Brazil. […]
As a newbie entrepreneur – still green around the gills – scouring the internet for business advice, I sometimes get confused by all the things that you should take into account when starting your own business. Luckily some advice is more helpful than others, and the best online advice I ever got was: You are […]
Look beyond the horizon. What we see is often only a fraction of what really is. As with a lot of things in life, some things seem not to be worth it, but end up being very powerful experiences. So it was with the garden of Sr. Jesús in Viñales, Cuba. In this short series […]
As I’ve let slip a few times on the blog, it is my plan to turn my writing and ideas into an empire. I want to become Unf*ckwithable – Bold and with a capital U. And I wanna do it MY WAY. Of course, people have certain opinions about that, and that’s alright, but for […]