Road Trip Journal
Japan Tokyo, 28 April 2017 A man for quantity… The AKTA community center is on the second floor on a small street in the Shinjuku-ju district, said to be “the largest gay district in Asia”. Up there we’re meeting Hiroshi Hasegawa, a long-term HIV survivor. Photographer Marjolein immediately recognizes the indented cheeks of a long-term…
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Cambodia Phnom Penh, 5 April 2017 Communicating in Cambodia It’s 2:00 in the afternoon, the hottest time of day. I’m soaked with sweat and fed up with it. When I try once more to dry myself off with the towel hanging around my neck, I’m impressed again by the situation’s hopelessness. It won’t take a…
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Cambodia Phnom Penh, 21 March 2017 ‘WELCOME TO MY HOUSE.’ The street is located deep in an old quarter of Phnom Penh, far from the places where tourists make the neighborhood unsafe. Once I’m out of the car, it takes a few seconds before I can master the heat, the dust and the stink. When…
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The Netherlands Amsterdam, 16 March 2017 The Friendliest Country in the World It was really true: “For years Cambodia has headed the list of the friendliest countries on Earth. Every visitor here is welcomed with a smile.” Nice, I thought. Very nice! I like friendly people. Even more strongly, a bit of friendliness is really…
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The Netherlands Amsterdam, 27 november 2016 Greg Louganis In 1976, at only 16, Greg Louganis won a silver medal in diving at the Olympic Games in Montreal. The Americans boycotted the 1980 Moscow Games, which kept him from two medals, but he continued his career, and in Los Angeles in 1984 he won two golds,…
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