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, I 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 too long […]
Day after day I have the mighty Amazon River as my companion, and I feel honoured. “I can’t imagine what it would be like to live by the river bank – so remote – with no houses for km after km”, I muse while I’m on the riverboat from Belém to Manaus – my first […]
The morning began uneventfully with a hearty Cuban breakfast and some much-needed coffee. Our first official day in Havana, Cuba. Still somewhat flustered by all the cat-calls – Hola Guapa! !Mi Vida! !You are so beautiful! – and the jetlag from our 13-hour flight, my sister and I set out from our comfy casa particular […]
I genuinely feel that your biggest challenge right now, as you are starting on your journey, is to BELIEVE in yourself. I have plenty of ideas. For me, it’s not so much about a lack of ideas on what I could do. You probably have plenty of ideas on what you could do as well. […]
“¡Hola guapa! Hola leche. ¡Mi vida! I love you. Taxi. Taxi. ¡Flaca! Tss. Tss. You are so beautiful. Taxi or boyfriend?!” This is just a collection of the addresses you hear when you are two women travelling through Cuba. Besides the more unisex questions like: “Do you need casa? Gran Ma. Gran Ma. Is this […]
While looking for blogging and writing tips, my Pinterest board filled itself with advice on how to find your blogging voice. Preferably in 5 steps or less. Before, when I wasn’t trying to take myself quite so seriously as a writer, my voice was full of humour and the silliness that is part of a […]
In 2006, my second year studying Latin American Studies, I decided to have another real-world Latin American adventure. Guatemala seemed like the perfect place. Spanish Class in Antigua, Guatemala Decision made, I enrolled in Spanish class in Antigua, a cute and colourful city in the Guatemalan highlands with all the sights you would wish to […]
You can keep asking yourself the same questions. Over and over. But at some point you have to choose to start and see what happens or let the fear of the unknown win. Lately, my head has been spinning. I’m going through the same questions. Over and over. Fear is having me running around in […]