To Turkey Antalya
July 11 in Belgium ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
Left Antwerp, there was an emergency landing and we had to take the plane from Brussels. The flight left at 19:00 instead of 13:40. We arrived at Antalya at 02:00 am...
Antalya
Jul 12–14 in Turkey ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
We spent two days, going to swim, eat fish and went to a Turkish Haman, for a massage and shower
Departure from Anatalya to Moscow
July 14 in Turkey ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
We flew from Antwerp to Antalya and now on our way to Moscow, checked in and flight is leaving; Moscow here we come
Made it to Moscow
Jul 14–17 in Russia ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Arrived in Moscow, back after 6 years. Amazing how the city has developed. It's clean, well organised, roads are all newly asfalted, electric new buses, everywhere electric mopeds. There are the smallRead more
Moscow's Yellow Cabs
July 16 in Russia ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C
No shortage of expensive foreign cars in Russia.
Meeting friend
July 18 in Russia ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Been seeing friends and remembering the days at Deloitte and Lincoln International. Interesting to hear all the perspectives of what is happening in Russia.
Home sweet home
July 18 in Russia ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
Went to see my old appartment and visited the supermarket, you buy a can of CocaCola for €2,50-, a bottle of French wine starts €15,-
Moscow never sleeps
July 18 in Russia ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Laat night we to Krasnaya Oktabre island to my favourite cocktail bar in Moscow, Dictatura!! They have a rowing oar as an ornament as a testament to the relationship with the Silver Forest RowingRead more
Silver Forest Rowing Club
July 20 in Russia ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C
Amazing rowing training organised by Sergey Ivakin the founder. They are close to opening the new club house, a dream coming true!!!
Shipping Porcelain to Mali Kunalai
July 21 in Russia ⋅ 🌧 21 °C
After 6 years in storage we need to do something with our storage and decided to send my Lomonosov Porcelain Crockery to Elena's ant as a gift. We went to the Post Office who were more than helpful.Read more
Novosibirsk
July 22 in Russia ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Made it to Novosibirsk. True Siberia, city of 1,6 million inhabitants, flying from Moscow to there nothing but forest, especially the last couple of hours.
Russian Wedding
July 24 in Russia ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Cousin of Elena got married with Christina. First day registration and next day the wedding party.
The day after
July 26 in Russia ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
The next day after an enormous amount of Vodka the after party with burgers and some more vodka
Russia's endless size
July 27 in Russia ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
We travelled from Novosibirsk to Ulan Ude. First with a bus to Barnaul 250km from Novosibirsk then from Barnaul to Ulan Ude at 04:00 am flight. It's 2,500km distance and there is basically nothing butRead more
Maly Kunaley, we made it!
July 29 in Russia ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
After arriving in Ulan Ude, Elena's brother Sahsa picked US up at the airport.
Legendary Buryatian Dumplings
July 29 in Russia ⋅ 🌙 19 °C
On our way to Mali Kunalay, we had lunch at a Legendary place where they prepare a local dish, calles Poze. These are dumplings and are delicious, was waiting For a long time to visit this place
A Russian BBQ, Shashlik
July 30 in Russia ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
We all went out to have a BBQ at the banks of a small river in the forest. What started as an organised chaos slowly turned into a table full of food, and of course vodka. Vanya and Sasha decided toRead more
Paddle boarding In.Mali Kunaley
August 3 in Russia ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Yesterday met up with Sergey and Natasha, life time friends of Elena. Sergey was into winging and told me about his paddle boarding, he bought. So today we went out for a session on the river.
Russian village sunset and dinner
August 4 in Russia ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Invited by Sergey and Natasha for Buryatia poses and Samovar.
Baikal paddleboarding
August 5 in Russia ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
We drove to Baikal lake on the way we had a legendary local "Bilash", in Baikal we went paddle boarding, the water is so clean you can drink it in the lake
In memory of Derk
August 7 in Russia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
Derk
In het ochten gloren
Van bevroren dauw druppels
In het gras
Schittert
Langs de scheidslijn
Van het leven
Een laatste adem
De laatste zucht
Het noodloot
Ontbood het streven
Van deRead more
Hot springs Baikal
August 7 in Russia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
In our way back to Ulan Ude, we visited the hot springs
McDonalds style Buuzi
August 10 in Russia ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
On our way back to Mali Kunaley, stop over at the Poze place, this place works like clockwork and is a McDonalds franchise concept worthy, they have introduced modern ordering.















































































































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