Here's a peek at the heights of Pico do Areeiro, the third-highest place in Madeira. (Get it? "Peek"?!) The view up here is breathtaking, and the island itself is wonderful. Apart from the mild, sunny climate, it's much greener, a bit cheaper, and not nearly as tourist-y as those Canary Islands. While, to be fair, I was here off-season,...
Here we are at Los Azulejos, Gran Canaria. It's called that because "azul" means blue, and some of the cliff layers are supposedly kinda blueish, so my shirt should be blending in with them, but it's not, because really, they're more off-turquoise/patina-ish.
Here I am at Dimmuborgir. Yes, that place from which the pseudo-black metal band took their name (and split it into two words for some reason). And you can see why: It's all dark lava, mercilessly thrust up from the fiery bowels of the Earth thousands of years ago; the formations are all crooked and gnarly; they...
While we've seen many amazing nature sights during our time here, this is the real reason I wanted to go to Iceland: Those notorious northern lights. I know they don't translate very well through this dumbass phone camera, but believe me: When you're standing in the middle of 'em, they're mind-blowing.
Yes, here it finally is: Our long-promised destination that's the opposite of Egypt. And while that means it's cold as fuck, this place has the most wicked nature I've ever seen. Volcanoes, lava formations, mountains, caves, waterfalls, glaciers, blizzards, black beaches, steaming sulphur lakes, hot springs, geysers (wait for the eruption in the...
With all the warm, sunny places we've visited, it's about time that we went somewhere cold and snowy. So we did.
And thus, it came to pass that Poland, of all the countries in the world, would be the first one from which I did two videos on separate trips. The reason that the camera's shaking so damn much may very well be that my body, at the time, was still in the process of cleansing itself of all the...
Since I went digital nomad and started seeing the world and visiting UNESCO world heritage sites, I've gotten the impression that the criteria for becoming one such seem to be getting more and more loose by the year. Much like the criteria for whoever gets inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
We've been celebrating New Year's in Egypt this time around. And apart from seeing temples and pyramids and, you know, celebrating New Year's and all, we're at this really bitchin' hotel.
Here we are at a traditional German Christmas market and OHMYGOD LOOKIT HOW CUTE KATHLEEN IS WITH THAT LITTE WINTER CAP A-AAAWWWWWWWW
Just in case you're reading this before watching the video, I'm not gonna mention the name of the city here. But I will give you the same hints as in the video:
Yeah, you may wanna turn up your device lights and sound for this one. This time, we're chilling by the beach after sunset on a Greek island that virtually just got deserted overnight, and it's getting darker and darker due to that whole thing with the sun setting and all.
Finally, Kathleen comes to visit me in Tbilisi, and we start to turn the last horrendous six weeks' shitshow around. Here, we're celebrating our penultimate night in a place I started out liking but that I've ended up hating due to this last month and a half of horrible experiences.
The title says a lot this time around.
Back in Tbilisi, Georgia (the country, you idiot). Not for the regular explorative purposes, though, but because I've gone ahead and bought a damn metal bar here.
Yes, here we finally are in Hamburg. Not for long, though, because as I'm saying, I'm moving on down south pretty soon. (Actually, southeast, but stay tuned for an update on that.) And sorry about those cars in the background. We tried to stop them.
Yes, here we are again – this time on Lake Skadar in Montenegro, bordering up to Albania.
Yes, here's that lovely girl with the irresistible German accent again – this time with me in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Here I am by Castle Schönbrunn in warm, wealthy, wonderful Vienna. I'm actually on my way to Bratislava, but as it turns out, Bratislava's kinda hard to access directly. So I pitstopped in Vienna for a coupla nights. And, the enduring July heat and humidity notwithstanding, this place is breathtaking.
Yeah, that Luxembourg video? Here's why it never came.
Here we are in Liechtenstein, surrounded by animals.
This is how calm and zen I am after 10 days of merciless introspection, emotional regression, physical endurance, mental and physical purification, and not a single damn beer.
Here we are in Kraków, which is probably the best-kept bigger city in Poland. – Which, again, is probably the most overlooked country I've ever been to.
Yes: The sumbitch FINALLY got himself some new sunglasses. You can all breathe normally again. And possibly do other shit normally. Like, shit normally. I dunno.
Here we are in classy little Potsdam, about a half-hour drive southwest of wonderful Berlin. Probably shoulda gone during a sunnier time of the year, but like I'm saying in the video, we were there for a certain concert.
Last stop, last hotel, and last video from Southeast Asia. This time, we're looking back and doing a bit of evaluation of a true lifetime experience.
Yeah, remember that secret country from our last video? We went to Malaysia to celebrate my birthday. However, amongst other observations, here's why that didn't exactly turn out as planned. (And this is where my comments about recovering from food poisoning on that last video should start making sense).
Yes, still with the dumb sunglasses. I'm sorry for all of us.
Yes, just so you're prepared, my old sunglasses had to go and fall apart like a childhood dream during a college exam period. I only have these with me, and everything's kinda... not that cheap in Cambodia so far, so we'll have to stick these ones out together for a while.
Yep, Belinda Carlisle was right: Heaven, in fact, IS a place on Earth, and it just so happens to be a small city in northern Laos:
