I am not sure how to start off, but let me tell you that in 8 weeks we visited 8 countries and met up with 70 friends, parents, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, ex-colleagues, old neighbors.

‘You must be crazy to travel so much!’ some of them said. Indeed a whirlwind of encounters with people we know well. Those 8 weeks we slept in 15 different beds, drove in left and right-handed traffic, stayed in tiny villages and big cities, jogged along seaside’s and hiked in mountains. Francien and I spent quality time with family and friends speaking four different languages, using three different alphabets. Most of them we met in their own environment on their own terms.