Ramon Stoppelenburg

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Ramon Stoppelenburg (born in Leiden, December 20, 1976) is a world traveler and a Dutch author.

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[edit] Education

After going through high school in Rotterdam he studied journalism at the Christelijke Hogeschool Windesheim in Zwolle. During his study he initiated in 1998 with friends the student magazine SMOEL. With the online website Stoppelenburg was one of the first Dutch bloggers.

[edit] Letmestayforaday

In the beginning of 2001 he started the website www.letmestayforaday.com. By using the internet for requesting a place to stay and help with food and drinks, he received 3,577 invitations from 77 countries. In exchange for the given hospitality he wrote an extensive daily report on his website before hitchhiking to his following location. The travels took Stoppelenburg through the Netherlands, Belgium, France, England, Ireland, Schotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Austria, South Africa, Spain, Australia and Canada. Coverage by international media[1][2] and the number of visitors to the website allowed Stoppelenburg to have everything sponsored: his website, clothing, camera, backpack, shoes and even his airline tickets.

[edit] Travels and book

During his travels he also wrote a weekly chronicle in Dutch newspaper Sp!ts and had weekly calls by the Dutch radio station 3FM about his latest adventures on the road. After 22 months of travelling he had had enough of it and decided to end the project. He rejected an invitation to be a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2003 as he was not travelling through the USA at that moment.[3]

Back in The Netherlands he wrote a book named Letmestayforaday, around the world for free (2004, published by Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Amsterdam). In that same year he became the host of the travel show Weg Met BNN on Dutch Radio 1.

Stoppelenburg is currently working on an English translation of his book. He is a fulltime freelancer in online media marketing and he produces short movies for the internet. As a literary compiler he is working on his first anthology about flying containing new literary works of twenty young Dutch authors.

[edit] Bibliography

  • 2004 - Letmestayforaday, travel stories, Nijgh & Van Ditmar publishing, Amsterdam, ISBN 9041350527
  • 2008 - Fasten your seat belt, Dutch travel anthology (compiler), Foreign Media Books, Amsterdam

[edit] Awards

  • 2002 - Internet Personality of the Year, by the British Sunday Times.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Leela Jacinto. "Cyber-Begging Bags Man a World Wide Bed. Hitchhiker Begs for a Bed on the Internet", ABC News, 2001-03-23. 
  2. ^ A.S. Berman. "Traveler hitches a ride on the World Wide Web", USA Today, 2002-02-06. 
  3. ^ Stoppelenburg, Ramon. Letmestayforaday, around the world for free. Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 316. 

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