It is funny how posters and movies can alter the course of your life, or at least have a large impact on you. My bedroom […]
The unforgiving jungle of French Guiana
There I was…about to run out of fuel in the middle of the jungle. The red fuel light was on for a long time now […]
Being rescued at La Grave
It typically takes two or more faults for things to go really wrong. Spacecraft are normally designed to be fault tolerant. If one system fails, […]
Eye in Eye with a Tiger
While Pench National Park is the park mentioned in the Jungle Book story, my visit to Tadoba National Park in India finally gave me the […]
Silverstone Racing Days 2021
It seemed like an Almighty Force was doing everything to block me from going to Silverstone. During the 2020 Ferrari Racing Days at Silverstone it […]
Hoher Dachstein
Sometimes the most beautiful things are just around the corner, and you don’t realise it. ‘Around the corner’ in this case means, the distance between […]
The crappy Ferrari Mondial, and how it links to achieving things
Who has ever put a search for second-hand Ferraris at an online car finder website? Many people have, and when you do you will find […]
Being all by yourself, close to Mount Everest’s summit, higher than anyone has ever been before…
I guess ‘George Mallory’ and ‘Edmund Hillary’ are the common names that pop up when one describes the climbing history of Everest. For me though, […]
The Ferrari 360 Modena: how a car’s colour matters
It’s 1999 and Ferrari reveals their latest stallion: the Ferrari 360. It sure had to live up to something, since the mighty F355 it replaced […]
Feel free! Feel zero-g!
Hanging three feet above the ground, looking down, and not falling down, is simply a weird sensation. Today, over 25 years later, it is still […]