So how to describe the last days here? It probably boils down to driving around the island seeing the deserted but beautiful areas where the highrise-tourists won’t dream of going. Needless to say we don’t dream of being there.

In the meanwhile we started in London! Hosting by lovely Sharna, pictures stolen from Miriam.

Leaving our hosts house in London early in the morning for a train to Victoria en onwards to London Gatwick. Lot’s of fuss getting our tickets to Gatwick thanks to bureaucracy on the part of the trainsytem ( something with debitcards and online ordering ) and getting refund on the Oyster card (failed). So we were a bit spooked since we didn’t have the full credentials needed at the airport for entry on Aruba ( a return-ticket). Fortunately both the check-in as border control were pretty friendly and 11 hours and some later we are chilling in the Aruban sun.

The friendly border guard at the island tells us we need a compulsory address and fills in a complete random hotel (ok). After some haggling we rent a car (yes I drove on Aruba) and decide to find shelter for the night. First some shopping and seeing round the island.

Being low-budget people that means that any hotel ( from 60 dollars and more ) is too much. So relax at a remote village, but it became a bit sketchy. We try to sleep at a hotels carpark ( not my idea ), get sent away by the police, chill out at a lighthouse and hit Eagle beach for a nap. Next day five-o-clock starts with an almost off-road cruise to the east side of the island ( The natural bridge for insiders ) followed by swimming in the sea at the south-side.

We decide to find information about going to other shores at a local Marina. Which erupts in a very nice conversation with a equally nice elderly couple. And so we munched Chinese, a sleeping on a beautiful boat under the Caribbean sky and tomorrow we’ll check Colombian shippers for a ride to where ever

And this happened in just over 24 hours, what the fuck.

Last months I’ve been watching over the prices of tickets and how and when tickets are a best buy. This post is about some hints and tricks one can use when finding cheap online tickets.

To my humble opinion I’d rather use other means of transport which don’t have the annoying security check-ins, the more sense of adventure and of course less polluting. But as we speak flying is the cheapest way of getting somewhere and a lot of times even the only. Compare the lowbudget companies in Europa with train travel and you can save up to eight times the price. Or boating overseas instead of flying ( on a cargo ship you pay around 100 dollars per day and it takes weeks) .

But without further a due, some information:

Which happened to result in a lot of pictures with two persons on it . (All photos not taken actually in Maribor )

Misschien een opsteker voor de discussie in het Nederlandse…