The way of the Mango, Part 2: The Price of Gold

The way back was not exactly short. We left Coco Island on Thursday morning and would be home on Saturday afternoon. We had to take the boat to reach the coast of Palawan, then had a 4-hour ride...

The Way of the Mango, Part 1: "It should not"

There would be so much to say about last summer... A month away from home, that's what I needed to get away from still and quiet Toulouse. Yohan had been working for 7 months in La Reunion, a...

No Future

Since I got back from Argentina earlier this month, I have been hanging out in Toulouse, waiting for the next journey that will take me to Madrid, Spain. Toulouse has welcome the so-called Velibs,...

Flooded, Part 3: Signs

It was a quiet and usual day of May 2008, Greg and I had decided to go and play a few hands at the casino. Greg took his car and drove home to pick me up. After he left his place and by the time...

Going Spar

When I arrived in Budapest from Bratislava, I ended up at Kereti Station, on the Pest side of the city. I was amazed at how huge the building was, and even though I had the information to reach my...

Following the Danube

I have been on the move since January, especially to places I had never been before, like Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Vancouver Canada in February. In March , I followed the course of the Danube,...

Getting Lucky?

I was with Nadine in Hannover, Germany for New Year’s Eve. On the first of January, as my stupid phone network did not allow me to send messages from Deutchland that day, I wished Happy New Year...

Be Aware

Last August, at the airport in Toulouse on my way to New York, I met Mathieu, a friend of mine from university. We chatted for a minute before he mentioned that he had met Julian, 15 minutes...

Have a Little Faith, Part 2

I had finally made it to Innsbruck. I was expecting the cold, and was not surprised to have my fingers totally frozen after a couple of minutes outside. As planned, I met Tina in her new hometown...

Have a Little Faith, Part 1

Even though I have been travelling for a long time, and should be used to about any type of locomotion, I really dislike trains. They are unreliable, incredibly slow compared to planes, you have...