Nederlands wedstrijdsurfer Remco Bakker (NED-15) en zijn vriendin Lianne zijn afgelopen oktober vanuit Scheveningen begonnen aan hun wereldreis naar verre bestemmingen en mooie windsurfspots.
Op dit moment zijn ze in Bali waarna ze half januari in West Australië zullen aankomen om daar bij Peter Volwater te logeren en te windsurfen natuurlijk. In dit eerste deel korte stukjes uit hun verslagen over Thailand, Cambodia, Laos en Vietnam.
The start
At this moment we are preparing for our trip and finishing our daily jobs. Sunday 3rdof October we will fly to our first stop (Bangkok) and this will be the start of our 11 months adventurous world trip. We hope to see most of you live before our departure.
From today you can subscribe to our newsletter which means you receive a message when we post new stories. It will always makes us smile, when we receive news from our friends and family. We are looking forward to our trip, but we also know we will miss our Dutch life and everybody who is part of that (you!). We would like to be informed about serious and crazy stuff and this is why you can leave comments on our website.
Would you like to tell us more than is possible here? It is of course possible to send us an email, see the page ‘contact’ for our correct email addresses. We will keep you up to date with stories, photos and videos, and in this way you’re able to travel along. To conclude, if you have any suggestions or highlights about places you’ve been, please post them under ‘our stories -> country were you’ve been’! Thank you in advance.
Best wishes,
Lianne and Remco
De Worldtrip
| Date | World ticket | Airline | Extra flight |
| 03-oct | BA0439 – one way | British Airways | Amsterdam – London |
| 03-oct | London – Bangkok | Qantas | |
| 22-nov | one way ticket | Air Asia | Singapore – Jarkarta |
| 10-jan | Denpasar – Perth | Qantas | |
| 21-feb | Perth – Christchurch | Qantas | |
| 04-apr | Retour on 18-apr | Air Tahiti Nui | Auckland-Papeete |
| 25-apr | Auckland-Nadi | Qantas | |
| 03-may | Nadi-Honolulu | Qantas | |
| 06-may | Retour on 23-may | Hawaiian Airl | Honolulu – Maui |
| 23-may | Honolulu – SF | Qantas | |
| 26-may | San Francisco – Lima | Taca int’l airl | |
| 18-jul | one way | Copa airl | Santiago – Lima |
| 18-jul | Lima – San Jose | Taca int’l airl | |
| 28-aug | San Jose – LA | Taca int’l airl | |
| 30-aug | LA – London | British Airways | |
| 31-aug | one way | British Airways | London – Amsterdam |
Goodby Scheveningen
Scheveningen…the place where we feel at home: good opportunities to work, nice lively town, enough opportunities to practice sports, the beach (!) and many good friends around us. When our plans to travel around the world for one year became reality, because we set a date of departure, we decided to give up our jobs, appartment and car. After Remco had a great windsurf session in Scheveningen, a good friend us asked: ‘Should you give up your car (read: independency)? Wouldn’t the value of the car stay the same?’ We decided to have a break in our lives at Scheveningen, get rid off our house and store our belongings including car.
Asia - Thailand & Cambodia
Yes, we arrived in Thailand safely after a 25-hour trip (5 hours waiting at London Heathrow airport). Imagine two tall, blond Dutch people on Khao San road, the busiest road in Bangkok, in between hundreds of Thai people selling the same, same, same touristic products (t-shirts, pants, shoes, paintings, wooden handcraft, jewellery, bags, etc.) and weird smelling food. A new world, warm climate and a lot of people walking on the streets. Yes, we are in Asia!
Asia - Vietnam
Xin chào everybody! We’re doing OK. Hope you’re OK as well. To make our stories more interesting, we share our insights instead of a chronological story. Here we would like to share some of our experiences about Vietnam.
The climate in Asia is warm with a high humidity. Since we put on our flip-flops five weeks ago, we haven’t taken them off. It is around 25-30 degrees and now it’s the end of the rain season; sun in the morning, clouds building during the day and sometimes short, but heavy showers in the evening or at night.
Vietnam is a lovely, long-stretched country. We already met our Asian ‘friend’: the mosquitooo. Most of the time we hang our mosquito net, which helps us to sleep well. Lianne seems to have a tiny allergic reaction on most mosquito bites: spots from 3 – 10 cm! Yes, itching… On the streets it is common to see cockroaches and rats (sometimes scrolling around homeless people). Luckily we’ve also seen some ‘huggable’ animals: monkeys, tigers and crocodiles!
Asia - Laos & Thailand II
Hello everybody! Can you cope with the low temperatures in Holland? St. Klaas left Holland and the Christmas tree is set up? We’re in Indonesia at the moment and luckily we can get updates via nu.nl, Skype meetings with our family and your messages!
Can you think of a better place to become 30 than in (the jungle of) Laos on a bathing elephant?’ was one of the last sentences of our Vietnam story. The first thing we noticed when we arrived in Luang Prabang, the second biggest city in Laos, is the relax atmosphere!! Not many tuk-tuks racing around through the streets and no people screaming to sell touristic products. Instead a friendly ‘Sabadee’ (Hello in Lao) from vendors, clean streets, beautiful maintained (guest)houses, French restaurants everywhere… We immediately felt more relax en calm after a busy Hanoi (Vietnam). We walked along the Nam Khan River, bicycled around the countryside and relaxed in lounge bars like Dyen Sabai and Utopia. There is also time to learn more about the Laos culture, so we visited the Wat Phi temple during sunset, watched the monk feeding ritual in the morning and ate traditional Laos fondue.
Lees hun uitgebreide verslagen op de website www.worldtrip2011.com en check ook zeker hun fotoalbums bij de diverse artikelen.
Bron: Remco Bakker (NED-15)
