Author: Simplethings
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How we saw Penguins on Chiloe (Ancud) without booking an expensive tour
Some people might know that I would like to embark on a trip to Antarctica. Not because I like snow or freezing temperatures that much but because I love Penguins. They are just awesome in every way. Way too clumsy to climb up a hill but determined to make it anyway. They are great parents…
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Hello Santiago
After a one hour delay because of a sick passenger, a total of 17 hours on a plane, 30 minutes in a bus and a 1km walk, we made it to our AirBnB. Safe to say, our trip has officially started!
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Traveling means saying goodbye. A lot.
We have been busy with making sure that we can leave. And with busy, I mean that we are constantly arranging things. Getting a backpack that is big enough, cleaning our apartment, handing over our jobs to successors and planning to see all our loved ones at least once before we take off.
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A small journey through our route in South America (Part 3: Peru)
Planning ahead has never been my strong suit. Professionally, I am well organized, but in my natural habitat, home, I usually go with the flow. Exceptions to that rule have been moving into our apartment and getting married, which I have pretty much completely drawn out in Excel. Going on a 10 month adventure however, I…
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How I found out I was wrong
Some people are extremely good at making estimations. Judging a situation, predicting an outcome and, because they are good at it, finding out that they were right. I like to call those people realists. Okay, that’s not what I like to call them (I find know-it-all or annoying more suiting), but yeah, it’s what they’re called.…
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A small journey through our route in South America (Part 2: Chile)
In our previous post, I explained that we focus on the destinations that require most planning. One of the appeals of a world trip to us is the aspect of feeling completely carefree. That’s why we are keeping our options open as much as possible. However, budget-wise it is sometimes better to book in advance and…
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A small journey through our route in South America (Part 1)
Although I was the one who convinced Dagmar to go on a long trip together, I had no actual idea of where to go. Many countries appealed to me while others did not. The plan of going traveling didn’t come out of the blue and ever since we discussed it for the first time, when we…
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I said “Yes”. Again.
It’s that time in our lives that weddings are an awesome way to spend your weekend and that pregnancies are welcomed instead of avoided. It’s that time where you almost effortlessly juggle social life and mortgage payments, can still party until 4 and have an early Monday morning meeting. This is the ideal phase, you…
Ingelse around the globe 