Around the World in 360° Degrees - Modern Motorcycle Diaries

Hero of the day: Alex Chacon. In over three years, +35countries and +600days of travelling, he took numerous 360°degrees video-selfies. All his info can be found here: Modern Moto Diaries. Enjoy, and become very jealous.

Why You Should Consider Travelling After University & Why I Am Combining Travelling & Study

The answer to the second part of my Title is easy: because it's cheaper. As for Part I:  As a, for me, great 2013 comes to an end, and everybody starts making lists, reviews, pre-reviews and more about the past 2013 and for the coming 2014, I as well am making big plans for the new year. Realizing that travelling and experiencing life the way I love to is expensive and thus inachievable without a good savings account, I decided to combine my future plans and dreams (of travelling the world, you know...) with my probable future in the marketing & communications sector. As off mid January I will start a Masters in International Marketing at Coventry University. So bring on 2014! 

People Are Awesome

I posted a similar movie a two years ago: People Are Awesome 2010, and last year: People Are Awesome 2012. You have to admit it, it makes you want to leave the house and never come back, just to discover all those beautiful places, right?

Life as an exchange student

Exchange year is not an easy thing, 

but through those different experiences, 

you learn how to stand on your feet. 

Every year, around summer time, I am remined of how excited I was to be able to leave to another country, another culture and another family. "This is a movie about exchange students in Denmark, from all over the world they are telling their experiences about their lives as an exchange student." Watching this video, reminds my of my experience(s) in Austria, Argentina and France, reminds me of how crazy those times were and reminds me of how much I have learned from it. Still every day I remind myself that I should thank my parents and family to have given me the chance(s) do to basically whatever I have wanted to do. I am not living in the past, but I do realize that all the things that happened to me made me the person I am today. 

Life as an exchange student from Wilma Rönkä on Vimeo.

And while you're at it, read (and share) the following text as well.

Visit Belgium, België, la Belgique, Belgien, Belgíca fast and easy

When visitors from other countries come to Belgium, I usually always take them to the same places. Not because I necessarily like these places so much, I do though, but also because it simply are the most known locations/cities/... of Belgium.

16th International Workshop - USA: Part 7: Empire State of Mind

Press Play, Start Reading & Get Sucked Into 

my experiences in the Big Apple, also known as

The City That Never Sleeps

Times Square

Erasmus 24_7 - Promo Indiegogo

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Erasmus 24_7 - Promo Indiegogo

from Stefano De Marco on Vimeo.

Belgium in 25minutes

"Yo dawg, I heard you like Belgium. So I made a 25 minutes video about it!" is what the makers must have taught. Enjoy Belgium, its cities, sceneries etc. !

Last day of studying, I need a peptalk.

Did you notice how the last part of studying is 'dying'? 

2013: Eastern Europe Eurorail Trip (EEET)

Today is a big day. With Toon, Heike and Liesbeth, the main compagnons of EEET2012 [Eastern Europe Eurail Trip 2012] we made plans for another trip. Off course, as awesome as we are, we came up with a very awesome name: Eastern Europe Eurail Trip 2013, or short EEET2013 - EEET'13! Original, right?

This is, again, not only a message which aims to make all you readers jealous about the awesome trip we will be making. Well maybe a bit. But more than anything, this is a call for all people who would want to join us for another legendary travelling experience.

Just like last time, Eastern Europe, according to the movie: Eurotrip

For now, there are two ideas. Yet to be determined where we will be starting/finishing defintely. But some of the places, including the Exit Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia, are already sure things. We would be leaving around June 28th and returning to Brussels July 20th maximum, which makes 22 days of living the good life...

Two possibilities at the moment:

• Romania - Bulgary - Serbia - Bosnia & Hercegovina - Croatia
  OR the same trip, but the other way around. So starting in Croatia and ending in Romania/Bulgary depending on the timeschedule
  OR the same trip, but instead of starting/finishing in Romania - finishing in Thessaloniki (Greece), as we need a cheap (ryanair/...) flight to get back to Belgium.

Grotere kaart weergeven

• Croatia - Bosnia & Hercegovina - Serbia - Hungary

Grotere kaart weergeven

Are you interested? Let us know, you're welcome to join us for a day, night, more or less!

If you happen to have any tips, information etc. feel free to exchange it with us! 

hasta la proxima amigos!

Awesome X

"Lose yourself in nature and find peace"

Hello 2013! The Mayans were wrong (again), or weren't they? So we're all still here... I decided to open this year's blogging with a couple of 'Amazing X'-clips. lay back, tune the music up and enjoy! 

Beautiful Life

Beautiful Moments

2012: What brought us together

A video about 2012. That's it for this year. 

2013 will bring me: exams, internship for the Belgian Beer Cafe, a visit to the American East Coast and with some luck a EEET'13! See you in 2013 for more blogging about my Experiences, which I still believe Are The Key To Success.

Happy New Year & Stay tuned.

What if money didn't matter?

Source

People Are Awesome

I posted a similar movie a two years ago: People Are Awesome 2010.

You have to admit it, maks you want to leave the house and never come back, just to discover all those beautiful places, right?

Nunca dejes de Viajar!

Espero que algo asi nunca me pasará, que nunca dejeré de viajar, que nunca olvidaré los amigos que he hecho durante mis viajes por los continentes de este mundo maravilosso!

I hope this will never happen to my, that I never stop travelling, that I will never forget about the friends I have made during my travellings troughout the continents of this amazing world! 

Que disfruten de este video, enjoy this clip, y de la vida, and enjoy life. 

International Workshop USA: I'm in!

Well hello to you Friday. Just got an e-mail: I'll be going to the USA in April 2013. 
Representing the Leuven University College at a 2-week International Business Game in Washington D.C., New Jersey, New York City... #USA2013!!

Tomorrowland 2012 | official aftermovie

Same comment as last year:
I have to admit it. This may not completely be my style of music, but DAMN, we belgians party hard!
Tomorrowland (Electro, Techno, Drum 'n Bass, Dubstep, Trance, Dance,...) 2012 edition: Official Aftermovie.
This is worth seeing, but be aware: you'll get in the mood for a party!

How To Restore Your Faith In Humanity

: a short slideshow -

EEET2012 – Day 0

This. Is. It.

Now this is not ‘It’, the famous last shows supposed to be presented by Michael Jackson, before he died, this is something way different.

This is the start of the EEET 2012.

What-the-fuck is that, I hear you say?

EEET 2012 stands for: Eastern Europe Eurail Trip 2012.   

Stuff to be packed.

A 27-day trip, on 2 planes, through (at least) 5 countries, (at least) 12 cities, on (at least) 12 trains and without a doubt endless experiences, meetings and stories to be told after this life changing event.  Well, life changing… Will it be? I don’t really know. Let’s be honest here, I’ve already travelled through 21 countries during my 21 years on this planet called Earth. I’ve had plenty of experiences, meetings and story-telling. My goal to visit at least 50 countries before I die is almost in its half. After July 2012, it will actually be over its half. Maybe I should adjust my dream... But let’s just see where we are when we reach 45 countries, right?

Enough said about how fabulous I am, how great my life is and how amazing the people I meet and make friends with are or have been. Let us look at the future... what will tomorrow bring?  No one knows. The only thing I know is that tomorrow, July 3^rd 2012, I’ll be leaving, together with Toon, one of my best friends, and Liesbeth, my girlfriend on a trip to Eastern Europe.  We’ll be going here:

The Trip.

Leaving by Ryanair from Eindhoven (NL) to Gdansk (Poland), heading for the Heineken Open'er Festival, meeting all my Polish Erasmus friends in Warsaw, Poznan –where German Mädchen Anja and Spanish chica  Laura will join us- and Krakow, travelling through the Czech Republic, meeting some of my best Argentinean friends and my German Erasmus roommate in Munich, travelling through Austria and Slovenia before enjoying a last week in Croatia visiting nice cities, beaches and hopefully with the occasional party.

I decided to do this trip after missing a visit to Argentina in January and after failing to find an internship in the United States this semester.  This trip is more or less as well the conclusion of my Bachelor studies of Business management with minor Marketing and Spanish at the Catholic College of Leuven, of which I graduated June 2012.

What’s next? What will the future bring? Where will I end up? Honestly, I don’t really care at the moment. The only thing I am going to do the next few weeks is enjoying my trip, enjoying my companions and trying to discover as many new things as I can: Europe’s biggest wooden pier, the world’s best know concentration camp, Croatia’s most beautiful cities… I’ll enjoy them all in different way.

For my followers or casual readers, I will try to update my blog as often as possible. I don’t know whether I’ll have internet every day, every other day or even once a week. But you may be sure that I’ll write down as much as I can, to keep you updated, to maintain the memories for me and also a bit to make y’all jealous! Haha

Let’s just say it the way it is: IT’S ON! 

                          

Supo Teevee: Café Doc goes international

The AFS Flanders head office was asked to come and talk about AFS during an interview for SUPO, a show made by journalism students of Lessius Mechelen. As the PR responsible couldn't make it out, they asked me to go over and 'do my thing'. Funny enough a friend of mine was the producer of the show.

All about AFS, London, the metalscene in Suriname, Bolivia and more in this (Dutch) show!

"Hoe verdien je een centje meer in Londen? Hoe ziet de metalscene eruit in Suriname? En wat is nu een typisch gerecht in Bolivië? Dit kom je allemaal te weten in deze speciale Café Doc met internationale toets."