'Where are we meeting the others?' I asked my teammate, who was born in the former Sovjet Union but treated herself Latvian and coming back from the US recently. In English, in the French capital, for the sake of internationality.

I spent a few weeks in Jambi with my friend, who I had known from the cruise ship times. Jambi is right on the Equator, it is in the middle of the jungle of Sumatera and there is absolutely no reason why a tourist would visit. So I spent four weeks there...

This weekend, I have been to a carnival by train. Considering that I live in Brussels, Venice or Rio would have been a heroic effort, but I didn’t have to strain myself that much.

Shiraz is an interesting city, with lots of gardens, 1.5 million people and as everywhere in Iran, very few of tourists.

This picture has been taken in Konya, in an original Turkish cafe. In the morning the elderly get together to drink Turkish coffee (which they are very proud of!) and talk. A bit different from home. Here, the older generation lives a very active social life.

It was my second day in Indonesia altogether. On my first day we just walked around Medan in Sumatera trying to find out where we should go.