E X P L O R A R O S A

stories from a wandering and wondering soul

Hi there!

I’m Merel (~Dutch, noun, meaning: Blackbird). Teacher, professional tree-hugger and in dire need of adventures. One could argue that working as a high school teacher is an adventure of it’s own (and they would be absolutely right), but the adventures that I like to experience from time to time also include putting on a backpack and hiking across Spain. Or booking a very random plane ticket to New Zealand. Or deciding that at twenty-three I can totally start playing a new (and expensive) sport that I kind of really suck at, and that it’s okay to suck at it. About 70% of this blog is me taking you along on these adventures, and the other 30% is… questionable. But probably enjoyable. Who knows. 

"When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty."
- John Muir

Recent Posts

no excuse

once I was seven years old and in need of steel...

sunbeams

the sunset reflects  deep pink on the clouds  I’ve got...

adventure is…

adventure awaits in every inhale, the chirping of the birds...

hug your ghosts

when the days are cold and your scars all show ...

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