Thanks to MapSkip it’s not really much of a secret anymore that I am permanently fascinated by maps. I always loved to look at maps, trace routes across them, read the foreign-sounding place names… As a young boy I spent many hours traveling across the beautiful, large maps in my parent’s world atlas, imagining myself [...]
“A World Of Sounds” is the title of a sidebar article that appears in this month’s Travel + Leisure magazine’s online feature about the Top 25 Travel Websites. The sidebar article features ten audio recordings from places around the world, including my Competing Chinese Operas, that has before been listed on the Quiet American. I’m [...]
Here’s a fun little quiz: Name all the countries in the world in ten minutes! There’s 192 countries that are currently officially recognized, and this little quiz almost drove me crazy. I thought that I would easily be able to spell out half the countries in ten minutes, but I had 127 countries left at [...]
Found in Hawi on Hawaii’s Big Island
The 21st century started kinda slow. Rocket backpacks for everybody, humanoid robots that can laugh at a joke and outposts on Mars seem to be all delayed for several more years until we get some of the details figured out. But here is something that is so 21st century: Virgin Galactic Yep, we now have [...]