Who is mafgirl?

I was lucky enough to have a family of ‘tech-heads’, with my dad working as technical support in a hospital – fixing anything from electric hospital beds, to TV’s to computers- and my brother always playing computer games, to later on in life getting his bachelor in IT and masters in ‘Artificial Intelligence’. I am not as clever as they are by far, but did get their infectious enthusiasm for internet and computers from a very early age.

In those early days of internet I tried to get myself an email account and, as you do, I tried my first name: gone, my first and last name: gone, my last name: gone.. I got suitably frustrated and just typed in all sorts of things, when suddenly a message popped up which said: ‘Congratulations! mafgirl is your new email address’.
So there you have it, mafgirl was born.
Now why mafgirl you ask? Well, I am Dutch and ‘maf’ means ‘nutter’. As I had been told time and time again that I was a nutter (apparently in the positive sense of the word..hmmmm) it only seemed natural.
It is just a tad unfortunate, as I found out when I moved to England at a later stage in my life, that ‘maf’ seemed awfully similar to a very rude English word.
BUT as I refuse to change the name that has been ‘me’ for the last few decades, I am afraid you are stuck with it and if you come to like my website and maybe even showing your friends, you are just going to have to explain the above story

Now why this website? As you can see this is where I share my passion for photography and traveling. It first started when I moved to England and was away from home. I started a website for my friends and family back home to keep them updated. Using England as my base, I often went away traveling for a few months, and one particular time, even two years. As I was traveling more and longer, my website kind of became the place for fellow travelers I had met on the way, to find photo’s to show to their family and even as an information hub to their friends who were planning to go to the same places I had been. As I tend to be quite extensive with information of where I have been and add links of places I liked, it has now developed into a website full of information, with links of places I stayed, ate or viewed and photos of all the places I have been, with hopefully, some interesting stories to read too

I still travel a lot as I have been lucky enough to have found a job flying around the world. This does however keep me very busy, so posts are sometimes added well after they actually happened, but I will do my best to keep it all up to date.

You might also find that some posts require a username and password. These are personal pages limited to close friends and family. If you are one of these, than do not hesitate to ask me personally for these details

Feel free to browse through my website and leave comments – good or constructive – or recommendations wherever you please.

Thanks for looking!

xoxo mafgirl