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After what some may consider careers in consulting and logistics, we quit our jobs, sold our stuff and left Germany to be full-time travelers and development volunteers. This blog is about our travels, our work as volunteers and our alternative life strategies - always looking to make an impact and to find the meaning in what we do or put some into it if we can't find any. -
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Shirt Raffle -Unser letztes Hemd
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Fundraising: Yodelin' for donations
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How to survive in Belize City
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How to prepare for a hurricane in Belize
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6 favourite places to eat (and drink...) out in Belize ...
6. Dezember 2011 // 5 Comments
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Volunteering in a shark tank to save the reef
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Von Cowboys, BHs und Handys
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Of cowboys, bras and phones
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Die 7 Grundsätze des Roten Kreuzes und Roten Halbmondes ...
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The 7 fundamental principles of the Red Cross and Red C ...
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Earplugs Swiss Army Knife (or Leatherman) Eye Ma ...
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Volunteering in a shark tank to save the reef
(This is #2 of a series of tongue-in-cheek articles about my work for the Coalition to Save our Natural Heritage in Belize. The last one described how I became a propagandist and outlined the build-up to the People’s Referendum on offshore oil drilling. This one is a first person account of how I was kicked [...]
Official Video: A day on beautiful Caye Caulker, Belize, Central America
In december, Holger facilitated a strategic workshop with the Caye Caulker chapter of the Belize Tourism Industry Association. The workshop focused on sustainable tourism development, segmentation of the tourist market and marketing techniques. The marketing angle of the workshop could be summed up by saying: “What tourists do we want on Caye Caulker and how [...]
72 hour offer: All you need to know to travel and be free
I have never advertised anything on this blog before. But I just bought this package (I wouldn’t invest the 1000 dollars it usually costs … ) of books and courses and love it. So I thought I’d share – I am sure some of you out there are looking for exactly this combination of blogging, [...]
5 things to bring when you travel to Belize
That's what it looks like after 2 hours of snorkeling and not noticing that your shirt was a few inches displaced...I have been in Belize for the better part of a year now. I arrived with a backpack full of things that I didn’t need or that I could’ve easily bought here. A few things I brought proved to be very valuable. For the rest I just begged visiting friends. Here are the 5 things [...]
Bird watching: Toucan invasion!
Belize has a national animal (Tapir), a national tree (Mahagony), a national flower (Black Orchid) and a national bird (Keel Billed Toucan). I was able to scratch Tapir, Mahagony and Black Orchid off of my list months ago, shortly after getting here. But that Toucan … just didn’t want to show! And it’s not like [...]
Splashing around in Old Belize
A very unusual sunday. Doing nothing. Hanging around. Playing. Reading. Sleeping. I could get used to this! The other Challenges Worldwide volunteers text us in the morning if we want to come to Old Belize. It’s a restaurant/bar/mini museum with a sort of artificial lagoon to swim in. And it has a water slide. A [...]
Notes from a voluntarily accidental, hopefully viral propagandist
(I waited to publish this tongue-in-cheek article for several reasons – this was written a few weeks ago when I was working 24/7 for the Coalition to save our natural heritage, a union of NGOs in Belize trying to fight oil drilling in Belize’s reef.) Wednesday, 2:05 pm, Propaganda Desk “Please report to the [...]
Happy Birthday Matthew aka Kid’s Birthday Party – Belizean Style!
Arriving at Goff's CayeWhen I was a kid, we always went to the Lochmühle for my Birthday. The Lochmühle is a little theme park close to where I grew up. It had a few attractions like a tiny roller coaster, some trampolines and a big slide. But – more importantly – it has a lot of water. Kids [...]
