Muller around the World - Who and where?

My first blog here on blogspot, so I can't afford myself having a bad start!

The website is called Muller around the World. If I were to accidentally come across this website, not familiar with anything that has to do with it, 2 questions would arise.

Ok, maybe a few more, but 2 key questions. "Who is Muller" would be top of the short list. Reading a blog and not knowing anything about the guy responsible for things said in it would be a shame.
Secondly, I'd want to know how in God's name mr. Muller (I am a guy) is able to find the time ánd the money to travel around the world in these days of time shortage and economical importance.

Let me start by introducing myself. I already gave my gender away. I'm Roel Muller and I'm a 20 year old student, currently living in Hilversum, a middle sized city not far from the country's capital, Amsterdam.
Yes indeed, I live in the country of the Sex, drugs and wooden shoes. I've been told they're called Clogs. Klompen in Dutch.

It's a shame Holland's mostly known for it's "Awesome dude, Weed's legal!" side. In my belief, ING, Philips, KLM, Heineken, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Rembrand, Van Gogh and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, NATO's Secretary General, deserve a little more credit. Not to mention the 16,570,613 inhabitants.

I graduated secondary school in 2006 and took a gap year before attending university, which is what I'll be doing from september on. I spent 5 months in the beautiful city of Sevilla, Spain to increase my knowledge of the Spanish culture, the language, the people and their way of life.
For as long as I can remember, I've found languages and other cultures and their history fascinating. Especially those we claim to know a lot, if not everything, about while in the end we find ourselves completely lost in translation.
In september I'll start studying International Relations in Amsterdam.

As for my other interests, I enjoy thinking deeply about certain things, especially journalism, politics, culture and religion. I like to stay fit and healthy and therefore play a lot of tennis. Asking questions would fall under this category too. Knowing about one another increases the possibility of understanding, something that has yet to be achieved in a lot of cases and remains to be a problem. (Example: War in Iraq, what dó we know about the Arabic culture and way of life?)

So far question number 1. Now Muller's introduced himself, I'd still be incredibly curious about what he specifically means with the 'Around the World part'.
As I wrote earlier, due to popular terms as Time shortage ( time is money) and times of economical importance it would seem close to impossible to, in these days, travel around the world and find out about other cultures and other people. These excuses would be given by people who envision the world too narrow-mindedly.
In the short term, it would indeed be hard to find the time and the financial resources to leave everything behind to go off on discovery of everything this world has to offer.
However, looking at the long term, the world could be closer to solving global problems than it's ever been. Understanding is the key to solving problems and to prevent them from happening in the future.

Therefore, in this blog I will discuss matters and things we see on the television, we read in the newspapers and we hear on the radio. Please feel free to submit topics of discussion as I'll be more than happy to write and learn about them.

Let's not pretend we know everything about everything,
let's admit we know a little about a little,
let's find out a lot about a lot.

Roel Muller