The beauty of growing (part of) your own food is more than just healthy, it is beauty to the eye and rapture to the senses. It is hard work too. A visual reconnection with traveling the world because food is life.
Travel & food: a happy marriage
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Nettle syrup
Nettle syrup is SO delicious that you just want to drink cold drinks. For a teetotaler this is a nice change in hot sweaty summer days
Nettle leaf powder
I seek for plant parts with which I can dye and where I can make delicious recipes with. Nettle, the weed we all know, is one of them.
Carob powder
I started to use plant parts to dye cotton with and in the process of finding these materials I try to get more use out of it. Carob is such a thing. Yippee, makes me happy to get multiple uses out of one plant.
Dandelion Root Coffee
Dandelion root coffee is really more of a tea culture, but then again, I am a teatotaller.
Atacama desert
The absolute favorite ride of my 5 years cycling through 45 countries was the Atacama desert in Chile.
Work-Away at a Paraguayan farm
I am going back in time with this story: being at the end of my 5 year cycling trip, in 2019. I was tired. I needed a stop from cycling and constant moving. I did not know that the farm I halted would bring me a husband. This post is also about a piece of … Continue reading Work-Away at a Paraguayan farm
Back to the center
Being out is a necessity: to absorb and observe the blooming and aliveness.
The Trouble with Travel (Segunda Jerusalén)
Thoughts and things of what comes forth from the moments between action and adventures.
Pouch Filadelfia
Sweltering sweaty days and equal nights where the temperature hovered between 35 and 43 degrees were not the best circumstances to sleep in fully equipped but a very warm room with rickety air-condition. Our friend Marilyn offered us the room at the side of her neatly brick build house for no costs and to keep … Continue reading Pouch Filadelfia
CINDY Needle Art 