Quixoticguide
Hi, I’m Maarten Van Den Driessche, a curious human, aviation enthusiast, vexillophile, world traveler, and food lover with over 14,000 days of life experience.
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Tehran’s Metro: What It Says About Urban Priorities
When people think of Tehran, public transportation is rarely the first thing that comes to mind. Yet the Iranian capital has quietly built one of the world’s largest and busiest metro systems, despite decades of economic sanctions and international isolation. Today, Tehran’s metro stretches for more than 300 kilometers (186 miles), with hundreds of stations…
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How Can Luxair Be Larger Than Arik Air?
How Can Luxair Be Larger Than Arik Air? At first glance, it sounds impossible. How could Luxair, the national airline of Luxembourg, a country with a population of just around 680,000 people, operate a larger fleet than Arik Air, one of Nigeria‘s best-known airlines, serving a country of more than 242 million people? Yet that’s…
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Art Is Data
We often think of art and data as opposites. One belongs in galleries, the other in spreadsheets. One speaks to emotion, the other to logic. But every work of art is data. A painting contains information about the artist, the era, the available materials, the culture, and the emotions of its time. A song records…
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All You Have Is Now
There is one truth that unites every person on Earth: none of us knows how much time we have. We spend years planning for tomorrow, worrying about the future, or looking back at the past. We tell ourselves we’ll travel “one day,” call an old friend “next week,” or finally pursue that dream “when the…
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Airbus A350-1000ULR Completes Incredible 24-Hour Flight from Melbourne to Toulouse
In a remarkable milestone for commercial aviation, Airbus has successfully completed one of the longest nonstop flights ever performed by a passenger aircraft. The Airbus A350-1000ULR test aircraft, registered F-WULR, remained airborne for 24 hours and 23 minutes on a nonstop journey from Melbourne (MEL) to Toulouse (TLS), demonstrating the extraordinary capabilities of the aircraft…
Where curiosity leads
Travel isn’t about collecting countries, but about understanding them.
These are places that shaped how I see the world — not just destinations, but contexts, encounters, and stories waiting to unfold
Travel Beyond Tourism
- Discover Places
- Understand Cultures
- Travel Better
- Meet the World
- Learn the Context
My Travel guides
- Not instructions, but orientation.
- These guides explain how places work — so you don’t just visit, you arrive.
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” –
Ibn Battuta
Maghrebi traveller