By Cdr. Bud Slabbaert The older I get, the more I start asking why, and I start questioning all the…
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Another case and a perfect example highlighting the fact that we are a young Constitutional State yet only in our…
By Hilbert Haar On a Wednesday morning, I get up at 5.45 a.m. We’ll be on the road again today…
By Hilbert Haar Super typhoon Magnkhut has missed Hanoi and barreled into southern China, so Myriam and I feel confident…
By Hilbert Haar We stay in the old center of Hanoi at the City Backpackers Hostel on Bat Su Street.…
By Hilbert Haar Seoul is a city of 10 million, roughly 250 times the sizes of Dutch St. Maarten. Entering…
By Hilbert Haar On a Wednesday afternoon, we wander over to the visa center of the Chinese embassy in Ulaanbaatar.…
By Hilbert Haar We leave Irkutsk on a Monday morning – rising early because the train leaves shortly after 8…
By Hilbert Haar On a Thursday at 3 o’clock in the morning our train rolls into the main station in…
By Hilbert Haar This is how it began on a Sunday morning in Moscow. We took a taxi to the…


