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This time, i will not talk about a city trip or a hike I did. I chose this time to discuss a bit further about the Dutch health care running in The Netherlands. I have been living as an expat here in the Netherlands for the last 14 years. Overall my expat experience has been fairly good. However if I have to complain about one thing, I will chose without any shadows of doubt the Dutch health care. At beginning [...]

Summer is coming and I start to prepare my next trip. My next destination will bring me to the frontier of Europe and Asia.More specifically : Western Asia ! My starting point will be Istanbul (Turkey) where I intend to spend a few days. I found Istanbul being a very good starting point for my odyssey.  Istanbul represent the end of Europe on one side of the Bosphore and the starting point of Asia as soon you cross the Bosphore [...]

Tallink ferry is just in front of us. we just left our hotel in Tallinn. 10 min earlier, we reached Tallinn harbour. In my previous post, I was giving you some overview of how great was our stay in Tallinn in Estonia. We are a bit sad to leave Estonia, we would have loved to stay longer. But as we have a tight schedule, we need to be back in Amsterdam. Tallink is a ferry ensuring the crossing of the [...]

Tallinn was the very good surprise of this trip. I left Helsinki with a bitter taste. A city where I was perhaps expecting too much. So after a very wake up call in our hotel in Helsinki, our little family embarked on the ferry in Helsinki harbour. The crossing itself was ok, two hours crossing. The boat was full of Finnish people crossing the Gulf of Finland to reach Estonia where they could buy in bulk all sort of alcohol [...]

A few days ago, I went to the Finnish capital spent a few days. I visited Helsinki in November 2011. At that time, as expected, we had cold and foggy weather. I thought by going in the Finnish metropolis around the end of May, I should be able to see the city surrounded by the warm Spring atmosphere. To my despair, it was not the case at all. It was raining, sky was very low. Well Helsinki was really depressing. [...]

The other day, I had to take a taxi in Bangkok to visit an Art Gallery located at the other side of Sukhumvit road. I used to take the BTS or the MRT rather than taxi in Bangkok, because it’s often faster and you avoid traffic jam. But anyway, for some obscure reason, I thought that going by taxi will be faster. There are around 150.000 taxi in Bangkok. Tips: taxi in Bangkok are really inexpensive, you may consider using [...]

In 10 days, I will be flying again to Helsinki. It’s my second stay in the capital of Finland. My first stay was in 2011 in the cold November, Helsinki was in fact my starting point to an incredible journey to St Petersburg in Russia. You can reach St Petersburg through the Allegro Train, it’s only 3 hours away from Helsinki. This time, I expect to see Helsinki from a different angle as Spring is there. Again this year, Helsinki [...]

Edinburgh, capital of Scotland but also home of Charles Darwin, Shirley Manson (from Garbage the band you know right ?), Arthur Conan Doyle, Sean Connery, is super well-known among backpackers. Before to go to Scotland, I always had some stereotypes about Scotland such as haggis, bagpipe musician, guys wearing kilts, Lochness monster, mysterious castle well you name it ! It’s only when I reached Edinburgh, that I realized it was more than those. We left London King Cross train station [...]

A quick word over what happened to Nomadcitizen website 10 days ago. Recently, I got a very bad surprise to see my website hacked. Not a pleasant surprise I must say. I felt like having been robbed inside my house. After going from panic mode to freaking mode, I started to gather my mind and look about how to get back to normal and have Nomadcitizen website operational again. After several interactions with my provider, I realised, to my despair, [...]

Delhi, huge megalopolis of 22 millions habitants. Delhi is the second biggest city in India just behind Mumbai. We knew that we had very little time to discover Delhi as we were in transit for the beautiful Ladakh. We knew there are so much to see that it will be impossible to visit even the tenth of the long list of sightseeing. However, what we didn’t expect was the extreme heat that was hitting Delhi at that period of the [...]

  A very quick post about outdoor activities with kids Not so long ago, as you know already, I was in France where I was snowshoeing in the French Alps. During my stay, I came across some very pathetic situations between parents and kids. Let me explain you what I saw before to go further.     First episode: I saw at numerous occasion, while walking along the ski tracks or along the ski stations in France, some parents shouting [...]

Belledonne, anyone ? Belledonne is a range of mountains, part of the French Alps which is close to Grenoble. The highest peak is “le Grand Pic De Belledonne” culminating at 2907 mt. In Belledonne, you will find 4 ski stations. Due to its proximity with Grenoble, it’s a popular destination for the local people but also for the foreigner who love outside activities (ski, snowshoeing..). I could not finish this series of winter posts without mentioning my day trip to [...]