Nathalie Van Raemdonck

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  • Brazil: Morro de sao paulo & Itacaré

    We were going to go to Morro de Sao Paulo, an island on the other side of the bay (Salvador has the biggest atlantic bay by the way!)   There were two ways to get there, a direct boat for tourists which was really expensive (but a lot shorter, only 2 hours) or going all…

  • Brazil: Salvador

    Salvador and to a larger extent Bahia (the state) is definitely a different kind of Brazil than what I had seen the week before. I felt quite often like I was in Africa, a feeling that a lot of people we met shared. Part of the feeling was because of the kind people that walked…

  • Brazil: Rio

    And we’re OFF to South-America!!! In an attempt to keep a travel blog I’ll try to keep updating where I am and what I’ve done in the past days. It’ll probably be quite detailed since I don’t know how to NOT be detailed, which also means it’ll be updated with a certain delay, but i’d…

  • Snowden leaks: de VS’s geheime Offensive Cyber Effect Operations

    Moord en brand werd er de voorbije weken wereldwijd geschreeuwd over onze privacy. De recentste onthullingen van het Cyber Command van de VS, onder leiding van de National Security Agency (NSA), laten dan ook een wrange smaak na over wat er allemaal te grijpen valt online. Dit waren zaken die we al in 2001 na…

  • Israel and the Palestinian Territories: the last days

    When I did my masters in Amsterdam in 2014, I went on a 10-day diversity studytrip to Israel and the Westbank with a group of the VU university in Amsterdam. I kept a journal from this trip as a sort of stream of consciousness to make sure I would not forget. This is the last…

  • Israel and the palestinian territories: day 5-6

    When I did my masters in Amsterdam in 2014, I went on a 10-day diversity studytrip to Israel and the Westbank with a group of the VU university in Amsterdam. I kept a journal from this trip as a sort of stream of consciousness to make sure I would not forget. This is the 3nd…

  • Israel and the Palestinian territories: day 3-4

    When I did my masters in Amsterdam in 2014, I went on a 10-day diversity studytrip to Israel and the Westbank with a group of the VU university in Amsterdam. I kept a journal from this trip as a sort of stream of consciousness to make sure I would not forget. This is the 2nd…