Taking the Alpaca’s for a walk

22 June 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

Beleefboerderij Heijerhof, Netherlands, girl takes alpaca for a walk in the forest

Getting stir-crazy yet again, I was looking for something to do. Something besides sitting in my own house. With restaurants, museums, stores and practically everything else still closed, there wasn’t a lot we could do. So we checked out Social Deal, which is a website that has deals on different kinds of entertainment. It’s also […]

Deer in Amsterdam

6 April 2021.Reading time 10 minutes.

Did you know, only half an hour from Amsterdam lies a beautiful nature reserve where you can see deer, foxes and other wildlife roaming wild!

Guestpost: The do’s and don’ts of Wildlife Tourism

9 February 2021.Reading time 12 minutes.

You probably have seen pictures of travellers taking selfies with tigers, swimming with dolphins or other animal related activities that seem super cool, but are actually awful extortions and abuse of the animals that are involved. We all know what kind of activities are too cruel (like bears ‘dancing’ or people standing on top of […]

The story of the dog that lost its sock

22 December 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

It was January, 2019. About minus 25 degrees and the sun hadn’t completely risen yet. We were in the most northern part of Sweden: Lapland. A land of snow and ice, when the sun doesn’t rise in winter and doesn’t set in summer. My parents, friends and family had declared me crazy when I told […]

Cat cuddling in Amsterdam

18 June 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

After visiting Wondr, we wandered through the streets of Amsterdam. We had quite some time to kill but after wandering the lovely streets and visiting the Waterstones, it was time for our next stop, namely: the cat café, Kopjes.

Highlights of London and Squirrels

28 August 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

Our first trip together was a blast. We went to London for two days. On our first day we had explored the city a bit and saw a play in Shakespeare’s theatre. On our second day we decided to visit all of London’s highlights and while doing that, we came across a delighful little squirrel… […]

Leeds & the Kitty Cafe

9 July 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

After two amazing days in York, it was time for another city. On our third day, we got up early to take the train from York to Leeds, a small city where we spent a brief time in on our very first day. It was a short day in which we visited the kitty cafe […]

An unexpected castle, deer and donkeys

20 May 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

For our trip to Germany, we’d only planned our first day to Köln and Schloss Drachenburg. The remaining two days, we just wanted to relax and explore the area a bit. For our second day, we decided to go to a wildpark and visit one of the many castles the Eifel has to offer. We set […]

Cat art and zebra’s

30 March 2019.Reading time 5 minutes.

Your own country can be as amazing as a place far, far away. Last week I posted a list of six things that I still want to do in my own country, to visit places and museums I’ve never been before. One of the things on my list was going to Vianen and see cat […]