“We are going, get dressed !!!”, the guide was yelling at the top of his lungs, barely audible above the noise of the howling wind, only about one metre from my ears, ”Let’s go !!!”. He left and I quickly

“Stay, low, low, low!!!”, our guide was yelling, hardly audible, as the wind was howling, “lie on the ground!!!”. I dove to the ground with my feet slipping on the small rocks. The wind had suddenly picked

This is a blog about a mountain biking trip in Kenya, to celebrate the start of #cyclefeed, which hopefully will be a thriving place to meet all bike enthusiasts. Thanks for the great initiative, guys!

This photo was taken by me while Mountain biking in Lesotho, close to Maseru, on the border between South Africa and Lesotho. This is my entry for the photo competition organized by @jctdesign

Don’t know anything about cycling or the Tour de France? Perhaps this blog can help you. The Tour de France is a tour on a bicycle through France of about three weeks, whereby 176 professional cyclists

We were in the bus with our group of fellow climbers, whom we would get to know very well over the next few weeks, and driving towards the foot of the highest mountain outside Asia, Aconcagua. Aconcagua

The Hidden Kingdom of Bhutan in the Himalayas photo: my own After competing in the 'Tour of the Dragon', a 268 km MTB race in Bhutan, I travelled around the country a little and would like to share some

The Tour of the Dragon MTB race is held in exotic Bhutan in the Himalayas photo credit: modern traveler Click here in case you missed my first post or second post on the Tour of the Dragon Here I was on

The Tour of the Dragon MTB race is held in exotic Bhutan in the Himalayas In case you missed my first post on the lead up to this race: click here Looking around in the dark I could see some of the people

I looked out of the window of a chilly hotel room in Bumthang and there I saw what I was hoping I wouldn’t see: it was raining heavily. Photo credit: tourofthedragon.com We had come to the town of Bumthang,

I have been lucky enough to visit a few countries for my work, that are not the usual tourist destinations. I recently visited Papua New Guinea, a very interesting country to visit. Fish market east of

To go tubeless or not for your MTB bicycle tyres, that is a question some of you might ask yourselves. For me it's clear: the South African bush has so many thorns and sharp rocks, that tubeless is by

In one of my previous posts I talked about the Freedom Challenge in South Africa, 2,300 kilometres with map-navigation and no GPS allowed. all photocredits: freedomchallenge.org.za Jacques Tattersall has

photocredit: my own at muendo @ istockphoto.com, This is my entry for the contest organized by @Juliank and @Photocontests; colourful kangas for sale on a Kenyan beach. The photo is taken on a Kenyan beach,

Hereby my entry for the 7 World's Continents Photo Challenge - week #40 - Africa organized by @czechglobalhosts. This is a Male Hamadryas Baboon (Papio hamadrya) in Eritrea, Africa. I have lived for a

photo: kazzit.com How is a Wine Barrel Made? 🍷 One of my hobbies is to recycle old wine barrels and make e.g. furniture from the wood and metal of the barrel. I also like drinking wine 😉, I like knowing

photocredit: my own at muendo @ istockphoto.com, This is my entry for the contest organized by @Juliank and @Photocontests; a lonely sheep on a dike in Friesland, the Netherlands. The photo is taken close

photocredit: my own This is my entry for the contest organized by @Juliank and @Photocontests in the category 'foodphotography'; a delicious plate of oysters in one of South Africa's finest wine estates.

photocredit: my own muendo @ istockphoto.com, This is my entry for the contest organized by @Juliank and @Photocontests; a curious group of young camels in a kraal in East Africa. @Ultrabiker Click here

This post is about the restoration of the sailing boat 'Muendo'. She is a steel 40 foot (12.2 m) long, cutter rigged classic longkeel sailing boat. If somebody asks what type of boat it is, I never know