Travel, Food & Development

Recently I also added an Instagram account where it's more convenient to post travel pictures, check it out here . I spent the week back in beautiful Helsinki. It's really gorgeous to see during the summer. Riding the train seeing the rocks, and the landscape of endless green pine trees. #train from #vataa #airport to #Helsinki. Beautiful the green pine trees A post shared by Lawrence Kok (@phpfreaked9) on Aug 14, 2017 at 8:39am PDT During the summer period Helsinki always blossoms with the period of the summer festivals. This time I was a little bit early and most of the festival activities I had to miss out on. However when I walked out to the harbor I saw an open market. It was a clear blue sky, the sun was shining, about 25 degrees. #Helsinki #port #harbour #summervibes A post shared by Lawrence Kok (@phpfreaked9) on Aug 15, 2017 at 4:53am PDT That day was pure heaven. I used the Helsinki eye and look out far on the vanishing points to be asto...

If you travel frequently it can be an advantage to get some good equipment, but also a very important thing to look into is a continuous travelers insurance. Travel insurance can come in various shapes and sizes. My personal one is with my bank, which covers about 2000-3000 euro in equipment, and I have some options for healthcare, flight cancellation. But it's also very useful to invest in some actual travel equipment. Personally when I started traveling frequently I looked into getting a RFID Proof wallet and I got this organization pack for my suitcase   This is a tremendous help in letting me organize everything tidy because when I open my suitcase otherwise everything falls out like chaos. Another thing I never leave without is my solar powerbank on long flights back and forth to Asia.

On my second trip back to Indonesia I decided to stay a longer time to really learn something about the culture. I traveled together with my girlfriend, to a little bit of everywhere. We stayed for a single week in Bali - where we went to a little bit of everywhere. These are some of our most favorite locations.

Last year I was briefly in Helsinki during the summer festival which was held in august. On my way back to the Netherlands I saw the logo of the Unity office on building. The first impressions I had coming into this city are the large streets and the relatively 'big buildings', very different from in the Netherlands.

On my first trip to Indonesia i was here for almost three weeks and we had the luxury of seeing parts of the country. For a few days we went to Ahmed on Bali, a popular diving spot. Where you can find the liberty wreck. After that we went back to the main island Java, where we went to Batu. In this small town you will find one of the largest Zoo's where you can walk literally for hours.

On our way to a road-trip headed to Germany, Frankfurt amz Main. We had the chance to stop by for one of my favorite foods as a child: Curry-wurst with fries. This brings back so much memories where we'd often go spent the Christmas weeks in Germany, going over the Christmas markets/fairs and enjoying the hot curry-wurst from the stands with snaps or gluhwein. Of course during a road-trip one cannot stop to have a little lunch too, yummie pie and sandwhich