UserPageferdinand

My full name is Ferdinand Harmsen. I am one of the founders of WritingTravellers, the open guidebooks project. See for more info about myself my personal website.

My travel resume:
1970 - 1997 Hiking holidays in Switzerland
1989 Trip by train to Riga (Latvia)
1989 - 1995 Hitch hiked some 40.000 km across Europe visiting many places
1990 Climbing in Ortler Gruppe (Süd Tirol, Austria)
1992 Lived in Glasgow (Scotland) for three months
1993 - 1994 Lived in Paris for three months
1994 Cycling tour from Maastricht (Netherlands) to Italy and back across the Alps
1994 Climbing near Mont Blanc (France)
1995 Cycling tour Northern part of England and Scotland
1996 Cycling tour along Normandy cost (France)
1997 Tour by train through the Ukraine
1998 Cycling tour Southern Ireland
2000 Pilgrimage: Camino de Santiago (Spain)
2000 Tour through Portugal by car
2000 Trip in December by car from Utrecht (Netherlands) to Naples (Italy) and back
2001 Cycling tour across the Peloponnesus (Greece)
2002 Hiking in the Picos de Europa (Spain)
2003 Cycling tour across the Alps from Germany to Venice (Via Claudia, Roman road across the Alps)
2004 Organized tour in Turkey along ancient cities
2004 - 2005 Three weeks tour by car through South Africa and Lesotho
2005 - 2008 Several trips across India where I lived for three years

But there is still so much to be seen!
Let's rediscover the planet!