“I’m a worker, like you”, he said, looking at my trailer. “I’ve walked over 41,000 kilometres around the world”. The man, tall with a grey goatie and a little tail of hair covering some baldness, summoned me to follow him up the stairs to his house. With every step I could feel the increasing anticipation. […]
In café Bianco in Tarifa I sit down with a coffee. Under the constant castellano clatter over ‘café’s-con-leche’ I try to backtrack the previous few weeks. It feels like looking down a mountain. A slope of feelings full of switchbacks of thoughts and decisions. While moving into Spain, greasing the groove seemed the only necessity.
At the moment of writing, we’re nearing three weeks in the Van Heldens Hike. As the crow flies, we’ve covered 75 kilometers, coming from Lagos (which turned out to be the start of the hike, after travelling from Figueira da Foz on the bus). As we reside on the second camp ground in our trip,
Put simply, GRs are a massive network of long-distance hiking trails in Europe, like the USA has the National Trail System, with its famous Pacific Crest Trail and Appalachian Trail, and Scotland has the Great Trails. They are in existence to connect stunning scenery often against a historical background. My self-imposed task was to cover
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It’s February. We are counting down to our departure in days now, instead of weeks. In less than forty five days we are due to leave the comfort of our apartment and venture into the unknown with nothing more than a stroller with kids, a trailer with our belongings and our hearts in our hands.
With the break of the first dawn of 2024, and my kid’s faraway sounds trickling into my conscious mind, I woke up a different man. The end-of-the-year craziness has passed once more and the older I get the more clear it becomes: it’s not for me. Not in the way it’s been going. Each year
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Hi there, my name is Arian. In my life, there have been a handful of attempts to fit in the mould of society: Bought a few houses, had a couple of jobs, ran a business. Some were love at first sight, none of them everlasting love. I never had a ‘nine-to-five’ life or mentality, and
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