A humorous feel-good novel about big loves, family, the art of self-discovery, and finding your destiny in life.

After three years in Colombia working as a humanitarian aid worker for the United Nations, Pelle Jellema leaves for the French Pyrenees, tired and disillusioned. At the French-Spanish border, his 500-mile journey on foot on the ancient Camino [The Way] to Santiago de Compostela begins. He hopes to get answers to the question of what he should do now that he is going to leave Colomb...

In 1987, Bart Leerschool leaves together with his wife Irene for the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. He is deployed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs to gain experience at the United Nations, in particular the international refugee organisation UNHCR. It is the beginning of a long series of events in a world where refugees are spit out by war and violence and are looking for protection and a dignified existence.

Flight to Mombasa tells the story of Bart: a UN official who had to stand his g...