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Leon de Leeuw

Oct 7
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 w...

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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 indefi...

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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 m...

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Hiking trails in Bulgaria - What makes it the thing I love most?

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 any...

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Klisura: One of my first trips in Bulgaria

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 th...

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How I came to love Eastern Europe and traveling through it alone

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 wo...

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Traveling alone through the Balkans as an introvert

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 t...

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