In the Middle of Anywhere

Arjan Tupan
Nov 6 · 2 min read
The stone marking the midpoint of The Netherlands, in the middle of somewhere

Navigating the world has long been a difficult undertaking, as it was hard to determine your longitude at sea. Some excellent books about the history and at times crazy experiments to find a proven system for determining longitude have been written, not least Umberto Eco’s The Island of the Day Before. Which is a good holiday read, by the way. And when it comes to longitude determination, in our day Greenwich can in some respects be considered…

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Arjan Tupan

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I help small businesses to find their story and tell it through new services and stories. A former expat who likes to view the world from a local’s perspective.

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To travel is to connect to the world. To learn. To teach. To wander and wonder.

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