Blog

As if the summit of volcano Merapi wasn’t enough, this time our man went to Tambora. When it erupted in 1815, that rascal plunged our world into Year Without Summer. And no, an extra jacket did not suffice. Tambora awakens April 5, 1815, seems like an ordinary day on Sumbawa,

These corona times are tougher for some than for others. We can imagine that stay-at-home kind of couch potatoes with an unhealthy Netflix addiction content themselves with some extra time to binge. Others, whose feet get itchy when they remain too long in one place, might be more hard-hit by

Indonesia is dangerously beautiful. Not only can you find 20 per cent of Earth’s biodiversity in this country, but also the highest number of active volcanoes. We decided to climb the most active of them all. “Merapi is an asshole, but a friendly one.” *** Take an island the size

Is there a better place to experience a turning point than the top of a mountain? For those with a decided lack of talent for rhetoric, the ones who immediately want to denounce that you may as well experience such turning point on the platform of a train station, or

I always travel without a smartphone. For the simple reason that I don’t own one, never have and I have no intention to buy one in the near future. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against technology. I don’t use a horse and carriage to get to places. (Instead, I