Travel
We like to travel. We have both lived abroad for many, many years in various countries – from Israel, to Australia, Thailand, Europe and Latin America (where we’re currently living & travelling). This category contains everything we’ve ever done to do with travel…
Destruction of El Palmar Beach – Vejer de la Frontera
I’ve just found out that some property developers are trying to push through planning permission to build some super-hotels on El Palmar Beach, near Vejer de la Frontera in Andalucia, Southern Spain. El Palmar sits on the Costa de la Luz (Coast of light), the Atlantic coast between Tarifa and Cádiz, and is one of [...]
Retirement and pension are illusions
Retirement planning is like making a life insurance. It should be viewed as nothing more than a small plaster on the wound if worst case scenario should happen and you become physically incapable of working and need a reservoir of capital to survive. Timothy Ferriss makes a strong case for this in his book “The [...]
Video: Yoga teacher training course at Yoga Inbound in Cuzco, Peru
This video gives you an idea about the yoga teacher training course I did with Chaitanya Nitai Das at Yoga Inbound in Cuzco. I really loved the training and can truly say that yoga has had a life changing effect on me. In this video you will see parts of the lessons – yoga philosophy [...]
Podcast: Basque Country & Ordesa National Park, Spain
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [Download MP3 | Add to iTunes | Subscribe to Podcasts] I made this podcast around Easter on a 1500KM road trip from Barcelona to the Basque Country (País Vasco), then on to the beautiful Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park in the Spanish Pyrenees. The trip takes in [...]
Video: Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin) – the land’s end of India
Kanyakumari is the ‘Land’s End’ of the Indian subcontinent, where the Bay of Bengal meets the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. It is the place to experience simultaneous sunset and moonrise over the ocean. Kanyakumari has great spiritual significance for Hindus, and is dedicated to the goddess Devi Kanya, an incarnation of Parvati. Pilgrims [...]
Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra, Portugal
Quinta da Regaleira is a fairytale house in a fairytale landscape and well worth a visit. The house and the garden is one of the most enigmatic monuments of the cultural landscape of Sintra. The present-day form was built between 1898 and 1912 under the supervision of Carvalho Monteiro. The style is neo-manuelin and the [...]
Copenhagen Carnival 2010 – in Fælledparken 21, 22, 23 May
Copenhagen Carnival is a cultural event being held every year at Fælledparken in Copenhagen. Copenhagen Carnival is a three-day music festival organized by the Fonden Copenhagen Carnival. Copenhagen Carnival is one of Copenhagen’s largest cultural events, with the three-day festival in Fælledparken and its impressive parade, every year offers a wide and varied selection of [...]
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