Everything is better at the beach. Even rain, I quoted while looking out the airplane window at the gloomy clouds crowning the island’s mountains. We were approaching Oahu, a place that had been on my bucket list for quite some time. An avid traveller, I hadn’t done too much research on the island as I…
I have landed on the Big Island, Hawaii at night, during a hurricane watch and without my luggage. I had traveled for 30 hours and KLM decided I only needed my luggage until Amsterdam. And left it there. In KLM’s defense, I had only one hour layover in Amsterdam and it seems this is too…
Besides traveling and photography, my passion is to climb volcanoes. I was pretty excited with my volcano lineup so far, amongst which Cotopaxi in Ecuador was ranking as number 1, being also the tallest I’ve ever climbed. But this year I topped it all off when I went on Mauna Kea, the tallest mountain in the…
I sat with my camera, both of us quiet, content only to look at the travelling sun blasting its last rays in a plethora of colors on the Hawaiian sky. The night was warm, the waves chatty as were the hotel guests on the terrace sipping mai tai and watching the tiki torch flames dancing…
I can smell it in the wet air of the cold and rainy late June: it smells warm and fresh and salty, like the golden rough sand that stubbornly glues itself to your skin after a day at the beach. I can hear its bells and whistles loudly singing in my heart: they sound like seagulls…