p.t. | photography

After a few years of essentially solid Monday to Friday 9-5 work, an escape was necessary. The chosen spot was Yamba, a town I came...

In an attempt to reinvigorate my blogspace (are blogs still a thing? oh well who cares), posting some random photos taken during a short...

Fact: it's impossible to stop Europeans enjoying their summer holidays. By July, many countries within the EU had re-opened to European...

Enter June and the weather continues to get pleasant, the birds really are making themselves heard and my bike rides continue without...

It was now May and the thought of being 'stuck' in Maastricht was definitely not an unpleasant one. It was spring, the countryside was...

Media driven decision-making So, arriving from Norway in Amsterdam in late March on one of the final flights I took an empty train to...

There are many reasons I've always wanted to visit Norway. Of course there is the natural beauty but one of my all time heroes is a...

I've never travelled overnight on a boat/ship before and was curious how I'd like it. The 'ferry' left Tallinn at 6pm and arrived in...

The bus trip from Riga to Tallinn in Estonia was again super comfortable but I was surprised the entire route was just a single carriage...

The bus from Vilnius to Riga was around 4hrs through a fairly unremarkable landscape dominated by flat, open pasture land and pine...

By this stage my ability to absorb new languages was failing and I'd often end up responding with some jumbled...

After rocking back and forth, up and down, for around 6 hours (500km) my train from Kyiv arrived at Lviv station around 8pm. The Russian...

Infamous in the mainstream (scripted, yawn) and alternative (real) media, Ukraine is now a country that many people are at least loosely...

Unbeknownst to me, I've been consuming a part of Bulgaria all my life, specifically the pro-biotic bacteria Bascillus Bulgaricus found in...

One-way ticket to Greece with nothing at all booked beyond the first week, so not really sure how this trip will pan out. Never been to...

After returning to Maastricht, while a long story we briefly ended up back in the German hamlet of Bad Bertrich. This place has been...

The very last stop on the road trip, all good things come to an end. Pesmes to Nancy was around 220km via the back-roads, which again I...

I have no idea how we decided to go to this tiny hamlet in central France near Dijon but no doubt it being labelled as one of France's...

350km from Avignon, Annecy is a fairly small city on a 35km long lake about 35km south of Geneva. It's called the Pearl of the Alps so...

It was time to slowly start heading north back to The Netherlands. Winter was setting in and I had some mild concerns about not having...