How did you first hear about IFIL
The former IFIL member Andreas Graf told me about IFIL when we were smoking nargile in a fancy restaurant in Beit Sahour, Westbank.

How did you become a board member of IFIL
I met Andreas Graf in Palestine when he was organizing the first IFIL Study trip to Israel and Palestine. Some weeks later he contacted me and convinced me to organize the second IFIL study trip to Israel and Palestine a year later. After the successful study trip which I organized together with Joelle Affolter we were both asked to become members of the IFIL board.

What was you best travel experience
I cannot answer this question because there are so many. But even after I have travelled to various contries on five continents I am still surprised how often "local" people show their hospitality in many different ways just because they are happy to meet foreigners visiting their country.

What is you worst travel story?
A very long night in a South American bus when I was sick and there was no toilet in the bus so "el gringo" had to force the bus driver to stop several times in the middle of nowhere.

Best travel music?
Depends on my mood but Patent Ochsner and Simon and Garfunkel are always on my play list.

Where do you want to go?
From Cairo to Cape of Good Hope by car.

Why participate in an intercultural study trip with IFIL?
Because this is an unique chance to talk with government representatives or members of NGO's, journalists, ambassadors, professors, business persons, students etc. and to ask all the questions you've always had. And all this in a environment of young and curious people with different backgrounds but sharing a similar interest: your IFIL study trip destination.

Where wouldn't you go again?
To this camping side in Sweden a friend and I went to some years ago. It was raining for four days and on the day we left, the only sunny day, a drunken guy pissed on our tent when we were gone to buy some food

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