The ‘5 seconds’ sign is shown and my heart rate goes through the roof. Five seconds to start my first race in the ferrari 348 […]
Skull island, and catching sharks with a fishing line
Just as I thought that islands with rocks resembling skulls only appear in Disney pirate movies, I came across one myself in French Polynesia. With […]
That day I drove an F1 car
Well, the Red Bull team is certainly not going to let me drive their competition cars, no. Still, do a bit of an internet search […]
Crossing the edge of the world, and finding wild boars, a desert, a nazi airport, and an enchanted forest.
As I looked out from the window of my hotel room in the Dutch village Otterlo, I could see a heath of a few kilometres […]
Fire at Spa-Francorchamps
Track days with your friends are a lot of fun. But with the ‘good times’ feeling comes a hidden danger… The idea of meeting up […]
Antarctica: how can I possibly go back to civilisation after this?
A whale came to play with me once. Also, a leopard seal tried to eat my GoPro. And a family of whales swam underneath our […]
NASA and ESA are returning humans to the Moon, and they will orbit a saddle of a gravitational mountain.
The European Space Agency just signed a contract with Airbus to build the third European Service Module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft that will ferry the […]
A battle against fear of heights at Mount Baker
There I am sitting on the edge of a 100 feet deep crevasse, ready to throw myself into it. Fear of heights has haunted me […]
Why (green) hell is a nice place to be
Whenever I ask my petrolhead friends to join me for a little trip to the Nürburgring, the response is mostly negative. Too far, too dangerous, […]
Testing gear, flying tents, and missing bunnies in Greenland
It is a strange sensation to take off in a dark evening, and land during a sunny night. But this is exactly what can happen […]