Leon de Leeuw
Travel plans for 2021
Again this proves to be a challenging year to travel. In the sense that it requires testing and advance planning to go anywhere. However,...
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Leon de Leeuw
- Oct 7, 2020
- 2 min
Travels through 2020
Not an easy year to travel. Or at least, not when you don't want to dig in and do some research.
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Leon de Leeuw
- Mar 23, 2018
- 1 min
The call of adventure
Living abroad, you partly or completely have to reinvent yourself. Mostly if you go alone. The advice 'just be who you are' doesn't fly...
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Leon de Leeuw
- Oct 28, 2017
- 6 min
Why NOT to quit your job to travel
It happens to many of us, the sudden urge to let it all be and leave on a trip. To travel for months or years on end. Why not even...
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Leon de Leeuw
- Oct 9, 2017
- 3 min
Don't be afraid to travel alone
At first, I traveled alone because I had no other choice. I grew to love it. Traveling alone has become my standard. It does not bother...
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Leon de Leeuw
- Aug 2, 2017
- 6 min
Hiking trails in Bulgaria - What makes it the thing I love most?
Ever since I came to Bulgaria, I’ve been exploring its trails. There are many leading into the hills and onto steep mountains. All over the
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Leon de Leeuw
- Feb 17, 2017
- 7 min
Reasons to go travel alone
Traveling spontaneously Little is more exciting making a coffee and start preparing a good trip. The good part is that you don’t need...
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Leon de Leeuw
- Feb 9, 2017
- 4 min
Klisura: One of my first trips in Bulgaria
It was late in January 2015. I zipped up my backpack with just a toothbrush and a shawl in it and left for the central station. I took...
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Leon de Leeuw
- Oct 29, 2016
- 8 min
How I came to love Eastern Europe and traveling through it alone
I was born a traveler. As a small boy, I read through guidebooks in stores and wondered about places far from home. On the weekends, I...
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Leon de Leeuw
- May 7, 2016
- 8 min
Traveling alone through the Balkans as an introvert
At age seventeen I learned about introversion. A lot of things hit home. I understood that I was not the strange guy I perceived myself...
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