Ron Mertens’ blog

Well, it’s time to tell the world a bit about TravelFully.
The idea is to create a web page for travelers during their trip. We have several ideas on the kind of information you would need in your trip. In the last couple of weeks we have started to write a first beta, and it is [...]

I just finished reading the Tin Drum, by Gunter-Grass. It was a ‘difficult’ book, and took me quite some time to read – but it was also brilliant. I liked it, and enjoyed most of it. It was hard to get into.
It really reminded me of Salman Rushdie’s books (and Marquez as well) – it’s [...]

After writing the last post, I realized I have yet to mention the Travel startup.
So I’ve joined forces with Gil Ruda, and together we are working on a new Travel startup. It will be a web page for travelers (doh, as if I can do something that is in the real world). I can’t give [...]

Gil and I just returned from the IMDM 2007 – it’s a travel/tourism exhibition, in Tel-Aviv. It was pretty interesting, and most of all surprising – it was rather big, with lot’s of exhibitors, both local and from outside Israel. You can see a booth from Bat-Yam next to a booth from Sierra-Leona, and it [...]

So we went to the conert of Will Oldham (AKA Bonnie Prince Billy) yesterday! I really really enjoyed it. I’m a long time fan, and have almost all of his music. It was a great concert. He played a few songs from his latest album (which is great), and a lot of older songs, and [...]