And the Nominees Are…

We are very happy and proud to announce that we have been nominated for an Ireland Press Award in the online category! Next Wednesday the winners will be announced and we we can tell you, we are nervous and excited! To celebrate our nomination we added some pictures of the...

Sleeping with Bill Clinton

OK, I’ll be honest: We did not have sexual relations with this man, Bill Clinton. But we did sleep in the same bed (only not exactly at the same time). The Beech Hill Country House oozes old glam mixed with Georgian elegant estate and we understand why Bill choose...

Heavy Packing: Photography Gear

It’s a little quiet on the travelling front so I thought it might be nice to write something about the gear I use for my travel photography. Let me start by saying that obviously you DO NOT need the ridiculous amount of stuff I use. But having said that, it is nice...

In the Arizona Desert

You see it in wild wild west movies. Dry land, cactus plants and a horizon that’s trembling from the heat. To actually be in the middle of this kind of landscape feels like walking through a movie set. It’s beautiful! The flora and fauna are so different from...

Lower Antelope Canyon

Can you imagine, you’re walking through the desert and all of a sudden you spot a crevice in the ground, hiding an underground canyon? A path 400 meters long shaped by wind and water and showing the most beautiful shapes? It must have happened to someone a long time...

The Beautiful South

Every spring we try to go to Limburg, the south of the Netherlands, for at least one weekend to enjoy the blooming blossoms, new born lambs and local wine*. It doesn’t really matter where you go, as long as you stay deep down in the south. In the Geuldal (the valley...

Electronic Ecstacy

I don’t like electronic shops. Period. There’s always too much light, too many sounds and the smell of – I don’t know – polysomething makes me sick. You can imagine my joy when we walked into this place in Singapore. A seven floor high...

China Town To-Do-List

A little to-do list for when you’re in China Town Singapore: A foot massage in one of the upstairs massage parlors. Strong and heavenly painful. 45 minutes in a chair make up for the hours of walking on 5 year old sneakers. a bite of a Chinese duck. I know, they...

Big Temples in Little China

You’ll find a few different temples in Chinatown, but the biggest one is the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple. It’s got its name because it reputedly houses on one of Buddha Shakyamuni’s teeth. We were mainly awed by the immense buddha statue inside and all the...

Visions Of China

Singapore is maybe famous for Orchard Road with a zillion shopping malls, but if you leave the centre behind, you will find many more interesting neighborhoods outside this shopping walhalla. Chinatown is one of them. A beautiful, colorful place with temples, tea shops,...

High in the Singapore Sky

One of my highs (literally) in Singapore was a visit to the Singapore Flyer. It looks impressive and endless from the ground up, which is not very surprising: it’s the biggest Ferris Wheel of the world! London eye is 135 meters, this one is 165 meters! We were lucky...

The Demoiselle Cranes at Khichan

When you travel as much as we do, you always think in lists. We enter a hotel we say: “Does this go in our Top-Ten-List or not?” And sometimes you do or see something and you immediately know: Top-Three-Forever. Some things never make any list (if we...

Jodhpur Meherangarh Fort

The Mehrangarh Fort probably has the highest walls you’ve ever seen. I remember when we entered Jodhpur by road, we could see the fort rise above the city. At first you have no idea how massive it is, but as soon as you come closer you realize it’s gi-gan-tic!...

Jodhpur, The Blue City

We love Rajasthan. It’s got everything you think of when thinking of India. My favorite city in Rajasthan is Udaipur, but Jodhpur definitely comes second. The buildings are beautiful and so old, the fort is huge, but most attractive is definitely the color of the...

More Iceland Images

Remember when we were in Iceland? We took so many beautiful shots, we just had to show you! Go to www.maartenvis.com and picture yourself in the beautiful pastel snowy landscapes we stumbled upon. Or feel like standing on the moon on a glacier at dusk. Or see how wild...