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The official
Letmestayforaday.com
sponsors always were:
www.ODLO.com
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IPtower.nl
is a Dutch
company
which proudly sponsors
Ramon's telephone equipment, phone line communications
and digital camera
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www.pac-safe.com
During my travels newspaper columns were published weekly in the Dutch daily newspaper
This project has been supported by these great and warmhearted companies:
Netherlands:
Paping Buitensport,
ODLO,
IPtower.nl,
AVRO Dutch Broadcasting Org.,
Travelcare, TunaFish,
Book A Tour, StadsRadio
Rotterdam; UK:
Lazystudent, KissFM, The Sunday Times,
The Guardian; Isle of Man: SteamPacket/SeaCat; Ireland:
BikeTheBurren;
Belgium: Le Temps Perdu, Majer & Partners; Austria: OhmTV.com;
Norway:
Scanrail Pass, Hurtigruten, Best Western Hotels; South Africa:
eTravel, British
Airways Comair, CapeTalk,
BazBus;
Spain:
Inter Rail, Train
company Renfe; Australia: Channel
9 Television, Bridgeclimb, Harbourjet, SeaFM Central Coast,
Moonshadow Cruises, Australian Zoo, Fraser Island Excursions,
Hamilton Island Resort, FantaSea Cruises, Greyhound/McCafferty's Express Coaches,
Aussie Overlanders, TravelAbout.com.au, Travelworld,
Unlimited Internet,
Kangaroo Island SeaLink,
Acacia Apartments; Malaysia: Aircoast; Canada: VIA rail,
Cedar Springs Lodge,
BCTV/GlobalTV,
St. George Hotel,
VICKI GABEREAU talkshow,
Ziptrek Ecotours,
Whitler Blackcomb Ski Resort,
Summit Ski & Snowboard Rental,
High Mountain BrewHouse,
Cougar Mountain Snowmobiling,
Whistler Question Newspaper,
Snowshoe Inn,
First Air,
Nunanet.com,
Canadian North
Accommodations by the Sea,
DRL Coachlines Newfoundland,
The National Post and
Air North.
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 About Ramon Stoppelenburg
by Kees-Willem Lauterbacher
 Ramon Stoppelenburg was born in
The Netherlands in December 1976 and he
is now 30-years-old.
As a journalism
school dropout he has become a travel writer, radio host, newspaper columnist,
commercial model and actor, published author and on ongoing internet marketing
expert.
Iedere dag ergens anders (Everyday Somewhere Else), his
tribute
to all his fascinating adventures he experienced through
letmestayforaday.com, appeared
weekly in the second most-read
newspaper Sp!ts, in The
Netherlands.
As a passionate globetrotter, his travel pieces appeared both as
columns and
features in Dutch newspapers and magazines. His travel
destination stories have appeared in
USA Today, the Cairns
Post, The Sunday Times and The National
Post.
As an creatitivity addict, he created
Letmestayforaday.com for the internet in 2001: as a website where
he asked people to
invite him over at their home. In return for
their hospitality he reported daily on all
events.
Before that, at home in The Netherlands, Ramon was one of the founders of
"Smoel"
('mug' or
'big mouth' in English), one of the nation's bestselling
non-profit student
magazines.
In 2002 he won the prestigious award of
"Internet
Personality of the Year" from the British
Sunday Times.
Ramon had been a
regular on 3FM's
national radio show Giel! with Giel Beelen in The
Netherlands, occasionally spoke in Holder Overnight
with
Peter Anthony Holden on Montreal's CJAD in Canada and with The Fatboys on Australia's SeaFM.
In May 2003, when Ramon was still roaming through Canada, he turned down an invitation to be a
guest on Jay Leno's Tonight Show, as it
would give just a wee bit too much publicity,
which wouldn't be very much that useful during his travels.
After finishing the internetproject Letmestayforaday (read his story on the
front page), he has also personally travelled to Turkey, Italy, Germany, Cuba and Egypt. It is said that he paid for these trips, just like everybody else.
When not visiting various countries around the world, he lives in the small historic
city in The Netherlands named Amsterdam.
Letmestayforaday,
the book
Yes of course! When Ramon settled himself again back home, after
finishing this project, he wrote the book Letmstayforaday, around the
world for free for the Dutch publisher Nijgh & Van Ditmar, who published
it in the Dutch language in 2004.
 Two re-prints later (!) and over 10,000 copies sold, Ramon now has found
himself a translater for professionally translating his stories into
English.
And then it's up to a foreign publisher to get that great translation of
that fantastisc book about that unbelievable story about travelling the
world for free.
When that happens? You'll read it all on this website when that
happens.
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 Ramon
likes...
sunsets, pets, meeting people and going places around the
world, daydreaming, david gray, zwolle, skinny-dipping, mp3s, english language, life-consciousness, snow,
landrovers, video editing, sarcasm, smoel, vodka lime, short hair, writing and publishing, african bush,
russian saunas, native art, guinness beer, weightlessness, broadband, flashes of sudden
super-intelligence, inexplicable happiness, post-adrenaline euphoria and some humour
too.
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