Weird or just different?

By clicking here, you can watch the conference speech by Derek Sivers on cultural differences that we watched in our lesson of 23rd September.  Subtitles are available in Dutch and English.  Just choose the language you prefer in the list right under the video. 

If you scroll down the page, you can read the comments from other people who watched the video.  And of course, you can add your comment too. 

There are a lot of other interesting speeches on the website http://www.ted.com/, too, on topics like science, culture, education, ...  Feel free to stroll around the website and watch some videos, with or without subtitles.  This other speech by Derek Sivers was quite funny, too.

What your handshake says about you

In this article, you can find some information on what your handshake says about you.  Keep this in mind, next time you shake somebody's hand...

An endless vacation

Via this link, you can reach the online article 'the secret to an endless vacation'.

It contains numerous links to travellers' blogs.

Secret tourist

Via this link, you can watch a tv program called Secret Tourist that was on BBC this summer. 

Instructions:
Don't click on 'download this video', but close the advertisement first by clicking on the 'x' in the upper right corner of the advertisement.  Then, just click on the play button (the > symbol) in the middle of the screen and the program will start. 

We will watch a part of this program in next week's lesson. 

Marc Beaumont

By clicking, you can watch the documentary about Marc Beaumont, the Scot who cycled around the world.  It's a video on Youtube, so it will probably start automatically. 

And here's the announcement of a lecture he gave.