Life isn’t about the stuff you buy and gather, it is about the memories you make (and remember). I try to document some of these travel memories on this blog. So, these are my all-time favorite stories.
Table of Contents
- How I ended up doing the haka in Auckland, New Zealand, with Maori
- My first real omakase experience in a fishing village in Japan
- How I ended up in a remarkable friendship with a Bedouin
- How I ended up bar crawling with people I had never met in Tokyo
- How I ended up as a karaoke DJ at an Italian graduation party
- All other stories
How I ended up doing the haka in Auckland, New Zealand, with Maori
A few hours between the conference host asked her Maori TV team to show me how to do the haka and me performing the haka in the middle of a huge dance floor with them. One of my favorite travel memories ever.
Read more on my haka experience in Auckland.
My first real omakase experience in a fishing village in Japan
It was the night before my Kumano Kodo hike when I was looking for food in a quiet fishing village in Japan, Tanabe. It was off-season so most of the city was closed. My ryokan host had told me there should be one restaurant open in town, but the owners would only speak Japanese. This is how I had one of the best meals in my life in an unlikely place.
Read more on my omakase experience in Tanabe (or more on omakase food experiences in general).
How I ended up in a remarkable friendship with a Bedouin
I had not seen a living soul for 40 hours, had got lost the day before, had to climb out of a canyon and was very low on water. And then, a voice called from below me, from the canyon. This is the story how I met and befriended Faris and our remarkable friendship via Facebook Messenger.
Read more on our friendship, the Jordan Trail and my Dana to Petra hike.
How I ended up bar crawling with people I had never met in Tokyo
It all started in the Tokyo robot restaurant, went on in another awkward bar and eventually turned into a 8-person bar crawl with people I had never met before.
Read more on how I ended up bar crawling in Tokyo.
How I ended up as a karaoke DJ at an Italian graduation party
My girlfriend (now wife) and I had met up with another couple and we ended up in a bar. Turned out we were going to be the karaoke DJs at the party.
Read more on how I ended up as a karaoke DJ at an Italian graduation party.
All other stories
- Solo hiking Peaks of the Balkans through Albania, Kosovo, and Montenegro
- Kumano Kodo Nakahechi route
- My Japan trip to Osaka, Kumano Kodo and Koyasan
- Kilimanjaro Lemosho trail – my story
- It’s all fun and games until somebody dies
- Karu tuleb, karu läheb
- A chance encounter on a bridge
- My all-time favorite stories
- How I ended up bar crawling with strangers in Tokyo
- The night I knew I wanted to marry her.
- How I ended up as a karaoke DJ at an Italian graduation party
- The story of my strange friendship with a Bedouin
- Stories
- Cairns – a tribute
- Jordan Trail Dana to Petra solo hike
- How I ended up doing the haka in New Zealand
- Fimmvörðuháls trail solo hike (Iceland)
- Running the New York City Marathon
- Laugavegur trail solo hike (Iceland)
- Running the Athens Marathon (Greece)
- Omakase: Kanteki in Tanabe (Japan)
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