Perhaps not the best of photos, but Eric arrived Asmara at 4 o’clock in the morning. This is just outside the airport in Asmara. Eric...

“The Only Bad Trip Is The One You Didn’t Go On.” That’s pretty much how I finished my TEDx talk in Binghamton in Upstate New York on...

“Darling, we’re going to Afghanistan.” Experiences beat stuff any day of the year. Including for Christmas and birthdays. And what can...

Country number 195 was definitely worth a smile. But that was before he knew how to get out again. How about that for a message from your...

Rocking the boat is a typical Travel Club surprise activity. Oysters as fresh as they get cannot be praised highly enough. Matching wine...

Expect amazing views regardsless of how much you pay for accommodation. Hahaha…? No, really. It can actually be done. I was never a big...

Earlier this week five million Norwegians woke up to happy news. Norway now tops The World Happiness Report after having leapfrogged...

Millions and millions of people have read my article about the world’s least-visited countries, but I get a lot of feedback that are just...

Two countries don’t have official capital cities, while 13 countries have more than one. The biggest capitals are among the usual...

Make America great again, the new president of the US has shouted all over the place before and after being elected. Not remembering,...

I am often asked similar questions. As a prolific traveller, I am lucky enough to receive quite a lot of messages from fellow travellers...

South Africa is the only country in the world that has three capital cities, while 12 countries have two. But two countries have no...

You’re not a big fan of bureaucracy, queues or red tape? Or perhaps a slightly paranoid citizen of i.e. North Korea, where travel...

I bet you will never guess how many countries lack rivers. The biggest of them is even the 12th biggest country in the world. And it is...

It has long been a vastly underestimated destination, and it still is. More and more tourists are coming, but the numbers are still on...

A big part of travelling is turning your head. To observe strange customs, to admire people in traditional outfits, to gasp at...

It is a huge city, with a reputation to match. Traffic hell in a dirty concrete wastelands with shabby neighbourhoods in between cannot...

A journalist recently asked if she could go through my passport stamps. It also triggered me to have a closer look in my ten passports to...

In July I asked if people who travel prefer to be called a tourist, a traveller or something else. The blog post has been read a couple...

Out of the 198 countries in the world, I have visited almost half alone. No surprise, really, even when contemplating about future trips...