Sometimes there is a unique opportunity to do an activity and last week I saw one of them. My task: to bring a car to […]
Start of the 2020 Pirelli Ferrari Trofeo Classic races
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, […]