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A drawing warm up exercise that I find very fun to do: take a random magazine, look for photos and combine elements of different photos into a new…
Last week I was enjoying a holiday in La Douce France. As drawing inspiration can sometimes be a struggle, a holiday is the perfect opportunity for some easy sketching…
In 10 days from now I will spend 10 days on the island Lesbos, Greece to distribute food and other necessities to refugees who arrive there. I will…
I made this drawing as a postcard for a friend, along with the birthday gift of a set of clamps. She’s a master of DIY, making her own…
Last week we got to babysit our friends’ cutest daughters for 2 days and a night because our friends went abroad for work. We had such a laugh with the…
The new apartment we moved to lately, comes with a cat. And not just A cat, no, an overweight diva cat that goes by the name Skevi. Although…
As a weekend project Cédric was baking bread.. and I was making a drawing on how to bake bread 😉
You can now listen and watch the Pecha Kucha presentation I gave in Leiden on May 3rd. I explain how I traveled for more than a yearin South East…
Now that I’m back in the Netherlands, I love to observe some of our cultural peculiarities. One of them is King’s Day. Since the Netherlands is a…
Yep, coming home in the Netherlands after more than a year of travel is.. cold.
It’s easy to complain about what’s wrong with this world, and I admit I go down that road every so often. But it’s much more fun to just…
Old habits die hard.. apparently it only took me a flight from Asia back home to find my smart phone glued back to my hand again. Longing…
While traveling in Asia there was simply one kind of coconut milk: the one straight out of a freshly cracked coconut. But it can’t be that simple…
Tonight I will talk about how I traveled more than 1 year by bartering creative skills and how you can do it too! Find more info and tickets…
Traveling for me also meant taking a year off from superfluous communication, threading Whatsapp chats, Facebook invitations to numerous irrelevant events a day, and all those other focus-destroyers…
After 13 months of traveling the tropics, Amsterdam’s incredibly bad weather is a bitter pill to swallow.. but hey, I’m Dutch. And Dutchies are water resistant.. right? February 2016 I…
How the nomadic traveler look after 13 months all of a sudden kind feels kind of awkward.. February 2016 I returned to my hometown Amsterdam after having traveled…
When traveling India one thing particularly stands out: the number of people in this country. I can’t say for all travellers but I know for sure that…
When travelling, the most lucky you can get is being right on time to experience some local festival or celebration. Wherever you are, festivals are universally known for…
Meanwhile my boyfriend Cedric has come to join me for a month of travel in India, and together we head South from Delhi to the state of…
It seems to be the favorite thing to do on a sunny weekend day: get your friends and family together, head to a public park or monumental…
Phool Chatti Ashram is a 100 year old ashram located 7 kms north of Rishikesh on the Ganga river bank. Here, you can experience ashram life in…
Phool Chatti Ashram is a 100 year old ashram located 7 kms north of Rishikesh on the Ganga river bank. Here, you can experience ashram life in…
Phool Chatti Ashram is a 100 year old ashram located 7 kms north of Rishikesh on the Ganga river bank. Here, you can experience ashram life in…
Prayer is an important aspect of ashram life. In the Phool Chatti ashram there is a daily evening prayer, or ”pooja” which is performed in the small…
The morning routine in the ashram is a 3 hour program starting at 6 am. It contains meditation, pranayama (breathing exercises), chanting mantras, yoga, and: yogic cleansing…
Phool Chatti Ashram is a 100 year old ashram located 7 kms north of Rishikesh on the Ganga river bank. Here, you can experience ashram life in…
Every traveler who has crossed India will recognize this.. 😉
And once more I find myself on the yoga mat, this time in Rishikesh, a holy city on the Ganga river bank, world famous for its numerous…
Trimurti Garden is one of those hidden gems that you can only stumble upon by reference of other travelers. It’s located on the foothills of Dharamkot, a village…
Yeah.. what can I say? I have still a lot to learn when it comes to being mindful. 😉
Fresh and clean after a refreshing shower I arrive in the gompa at 6:45 am. As the meditation starts: HELLO MONKEY MIND!! Maybe that shower was a little…
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