Lokale Schotten adviseerden me twee jaar geleden om in de late herfst of vroege winter naar de bothies te trekken. Geen muggen, geen toeristen en nog geen sneeuw... behalve dan de dag dat ik aankom.

I hereby express my deepest gratitude to the five terrain men involved in my rescue and the persons behind de scenes I never met but who were as important to guarantee the continuation of this life.

In the first years of their marriage my parents run a pub in a small Flemish town called "Ter Vichte". I press a book telling their heroic stories from that period and before.

Van kindsaf noem ik mezelf amateur-astronoom. Het universum met zijn overweldigend grote structuren dat ik zo bewonder is opgebouwd uit uiterst kleine elementaire deeltjes. 50 jaar later probeer ik het oneindig grote beter te begrijpen door het oneindig kleine te bestuderen. En ik kom mezelf tegen en een spin.

Wednesday morning, halfway through the stormchasing-tour, and we haven't seen much yet. It is however the storm season. Even then you can apparently have pleasant summer weather for days on end. The briefing this morning is a little more hopeful for the terrible bad weather for which I crossed the ocean.

I am permanently somewhere on the road as a solivagant in the time period between my first and second week of training as a Kundalini Yoga Teacher Level 1. I choose this to optimally integrate the training while I remain in close contact with wild nature, my body and my soul.

I want to experience the annual crossing of the gnus over the Mara River, in the northern Serengeti near the border with Kenya. When booking this tour the agent mentions in passing that it is possible to reach the top of Kilimanjaro, the highest point on the African continent, without any climbing experience. I do not doubt.

Albert is my maternal grandfather. I've always had a strong connection with him but he passed away too early.

Since I was young I am attracted by the personality of Syd Barrett. Only recently I exactly understand why.

I sail with a wooden ship in the fjords of Scoresby Sund in Mid-East Greenland where my vision about icebergs radically changes

On a beautiful hiking day I get into yet another conversation with another hiker who tells me about hiking carts. I buy myself one and test it for about a year on different offroad paths. Then I feel sufficiently prepared for my first Bothy tour in the Eastern Highlands of Scotland.

In de jaren ’70 van vorige eeuw ging ik met mijn ouders twee keer naar de tour de france kijken: naar alpe-d’huez en naar de puy de dôme. Het heeft me niet meer losgelaten en telkens het mobiele circus niet ver van ons deur passeert zijn we naar een rit gaan kijken. Nu wilde ik meer…