2018-01-30 09:01
The best part about travelling Europe is the opportunity to do mini-holidays. Everything is so close by! Well, relatively. But let’s have this discussion again once you’ve taken… Read More
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2018-01-20 15:00
What did you think of when the year changed? Did you think of the weight you wanted to lose? Did you think of the girl you wanted to kiss? Did you think of something you always wanted to do… Read More
2018-01-14 16:00
Oooh, my poor body. It all comes back to me in a wave of weakness as I slowly stir, grabbing at the tail of a dream I’m being pulled out of. I fear that the smallest movement might set… Read More
2018-01-08 13:00
What’s that? 2017 ended a week ago? I don’t know about you, but I spent December freaking out over my thesis while continuously not doing anything to further it while stress-eati… Read More
2018-01-02 10:58
What if I told you that the largest wooden old town in the Nordics could be found right here in Finland? Could I entice you with promises of old-fashioned architecture, colourful facades and… Read More
2017-12-26 23:39
2017 has been a terrible, amazing year. I guess someone could call it a bad year, seeing all the dark lows I went through, but the highs were so intense that I would strongly disagree. The y… Read More
2017-12-05 12:58
I have tons of pictures of llamas and alpacas. Like, TONS. (If you’ve been around my Instagram, you’ve surely noticed.) I feel kinda bad that I keep bombarding my poor social cha… Read More
2017-11-28 13:54
There is a questions that keeps pestering me as I travel on. Is it worth it? as I am blowing my paycheck on a flight deal and hoping I will have enough shifts at work before the trip to put… Read More
2017-11-17 12:57
Travel changes you. It changes you subtly and slowly and tremendously, and when that change is done, you can never just go back to your old comfortable self and tell yourself, ‘Well, t… Read More
2017-11-12 15:04
Hi, stranger. I’m on the move again. After five months in the same set, in the same apartment that was far from a home but a place to be anyway, I am back on the move. My hands shake… Read More
2017-11-02 10:58
Bolivia is also the dream destination of any adventure traveller that craves for that special kind of rush. Just being in the country is exciting; in cities, traffic rules have been replaced… Read More
2017-10-27 10:17
He told me he had been married. Eight years with the same girl, three years under a legal licence. He wasn’t the first Brazilian my age who I’d met who’d already dipped the… Read More
2017-10-22 18:38
I travelled in Bolivia in July, and one of the highlights of the trips was, as expected, my 3-day Jeep safari to Salar de Uyuni and the national parks around it. Fun fact: You visit the act… Read More
2017-10-20 20:08
WordPress is an award-winning web software, used by millions of webmasters worldwide for building their website or blog. SiteGround is proud to host this particular WordPress installation an… Read More
2017-10-01 09:33
Hello friend! I surely hope you’ve been better than me.
Oruro is a god-awful, no-good lousy town. I make up my mind as soon as I jump out of the bus and the poignant smell of piss and… Read More
2017-09-25 10:05
lost in CambodiaSo you’ve packed your bags and quit your job. You’ve closed your phone plan and advised your friends and family that you might go days without contact with the fr… Read More
2017-09-17 10:13
Escadaria Selarón in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro, full of pickpockets and shady characters.When my Plan A to go on a student exchange to Chile failed, I immediately jumped on a poorly-planne… Read More
2017-09-09 20:01
Admiring volcanoes in Amboro National Park, BoliviaThis time the Back-to-Black Blues has already hit me three days before starting my arduous journey home.
Saturday, August 26, 11.35 a.m. I… Read More
2017-09-03 09:27
Hello friend, how are you?
This postcard is going to reach you late. (Just blame the South American postal service and hope that it doesn’t take as long as it took for that care packa… Read More
2017-08-07 00:58
The Dutch girl I met in Sucre shuddered when she remembered the mining tour she’d taken back in Potosí. ‘It’s definitely interesting’, she said, ‘but it… Read More
2017-08-07 00:58
The Dutch girl I met in Sucre shuddered when she remembered the mining tour she’d taken back in Potosí. ‘It’s definitely interesting’, she said, ‘but it… Read More
2017-07-07 16:10
I sometimes have to stop and think about how lucky I am. I am probably luckier than 99.5% of the world’s population. It blows my mind.
Lucky in Evora, PortugalI am white, straight, edu… Read More
2017-06-23 18:53
Guys, I’m having difficulties starting this piece. It’s all in the title. What am I going to say, repeat it? Ugh. Fine. This is a post full of photos from Uruguay. Happy?
I had t… Read More
2017-06-18 18:23
Hey, how’s is going?
It’s been a while, eh? I’ve missed you, believe me when I say I have. Sometimes I think about all the familiar places and comfortable routine that I n… Read More
2017-06-12 16:07
I was not expecting the grey skies. What happened to the picture-perfect views of every photo I ever saw of the place? Had I really come all this way just to bask in this bland greyness? Oh… Read More
2017-05-12 17:44
There is a post titled ‘Can We Stop Pretending That Learning a Language Is Easy?’ on the top of my drafts folder. I started typing it after I saw one of those ads, promoting &lsq&hell…Read More
2017-04-08 09:37
Rio de Janeiro is a wonderful place during the Carnaval. Foreigners and locals alike come together in loud, colourful street parties, blocos, partying alongside the drummers and more ta… Read More
2017-04-03 11:31
Happy in Dorset, the UKIt has been years since I met him. If you asked me his name, I couldn’t tell; perhaps he never even told me. We barely exchanged enough words to count as a whol… Read More
2017-03-27 09:54
Paraders getting ready for SambódromoWhat’s the first thing that springs to mind when you hear the word ‘Brazil’? The amazing nature, the Amazon, the beaches…… Read More
2017-03-11 12:41
Solo in Bagan, MyanmarThe boy on the street looks devastated when I tell him – just as I’ve told a long line of suitors before him – that I can’t kiss him because I h… Read More
2017-03-05 11:09
For the first time in months I can remove my jacket.
The touch of the sun is gentle and loving, like that of a lover’s. It is just a show she puts up for me since in a few short weeks… Read More
2017-02-28 11:51
My first three weeks in Brazil were weird. You know why? Because I travelled in a way that isn’t necessarily familiar to me. I was social and toured with others. I partied very little… Read More
2017-02-23 12:32
This might ruffle some feathers. Oh well, it’s not like I have tried to avoid other topics in the past that some might deem inappropriate for travel blogs. My intention has never… Read More
2017-02-16 09:15
For one reason or another, this post has been drifting around my drafts folder since the day I started this blog – for nearly two years – and I never got around to publishing it… Read More
2017-02-09 09:24
How’s it going? I’m currently hailing from Paraty, two weeks into my travel/exchange life in Brazil, and even though I’m profusely mosquito-bitten, sunburnt and tired, I… Read More
2017-01-22 11:12
Let me start by saying that Portugal is awesome! Old cities with streets covered in slippery cobblestones, painstakingly steep hills sneaking up to palaces and castles, the bluest Janua… Read More
2017-01-18 10:15
(Brace youselves for SO. MANY. AIRPLANE WINDOW PHOTOS.)
Airports are pretty much the worst thing about travelling. (In fact, last year I wrote a rant about how much I hate air travel.) They… Read More
2017-01-15 12:00
Ah, holiday season. I found myself in yet another party where the only people I knew were nowhere to be found and the loudspeakers were blaring loudly enough that I had very little hope of… Read More
2017-01-10 10:30
I wonder how many others pay attention to last things. Mostly they are irrelevancies; small things that flash through my mind when I’m preparing for a trip and make me feel a tiny bit… Read More
2017-01-07 09:56
When I think of Scotland, the usual suspects spring to mind first: bagpipes and haggis, highlands, a charming but at times incomprehensible accent. And wouldn’t you know it – Edi… Read More
2016-12-30 13:40
January: Gdansk, PolandIt has been a strange year. Maybe the tone was set only a few weeks into the year with a swarm of celebrity deaths, but it was only a beginning of what was to com… Read More
2016-12-24 09:22
Holla at everyone who’s reading this today! I wrote another story for you to read&enjoy, and since today is Finnish Christmas – Merry Christmas! Or happy holidays, or jolly w… Read More
2016-12-18 11:55
I’ve been quiet lately on here and on my social media, but now the semester is over and I have time for life! I feel reborn *cue the theme of The Lion King* This one’s going to b… Read More
2016-12-06 09:22
I have had this post in the drafts folder for months now. But it’s been a awhile since the last What to wear post – besides, what would the Finnish Independence Day be without a… Read More
2016-12-01 12:04
Has this ever happened to you?
Not to worry! I love having my hair open and flowing about but especially on travel days it just gets plain annoying. When I meet up with a friend or a relati… Read More
2016-11-26 11:22
If you follow me on social media, you might’ve noticed a few weeks ago that I mentioned I got robbed. It happened in a place I never expected it to happen, in a moment that came out of… Read More
2016-11-20 10:44
Hi friend
It was the first night of many. People said we were crazy camping out in October, and while I was trying to offer a freezing, helping hand to Ben who was putting up our tent, I th… Read More
2016-11-12 21:53
(Anyone wondering – the feature photo is from Patarei prison, Tallinn.)
I’ve been writing this post since Wednesday, and still, somehow, I don’t know exactly what to… Read More
2016-10-31 12:05
The devil goes by many names: Delhi belly, Montezuma’s revenge, Pharaoh’s curse, Mummy tummy… Many of us have at least one awkward travel story revolving around uncontroll… Read More
2016-10-23 11:51
I haven’t done this kind of posts before. I once tried to – with my post about the strays in Greece – but I started to do research and got carried away. However, I thought… Read More
2016-10-17 11:33
This is going to be short&sweet, and something I am writing just after I’ve thought about it (although I’m publishing this a few days later).
The Whitehaven Beach is one of t… Read More
2016-10-14 11:32
Ever since I was little, I was good at school. I couldn’t tell if it was more nature or nurture; both my parents are teachers so I used to joke that I had been lucky to inherit intelli… Read More
2016-10-07 18:56
Right now I feel like I’m in a disaster movie, standing on a beach somewhere and looking at a humongous wave crashing towards me. I’m about to get drowned in work. I took Septemb… Read More
2016-10-02 12:08
The bus station was swarming with cab drivers who, impatient to lure passengers into their cars, were crowding the door and sticking their heads in, calling out “Taxi! Taxi!” in… Read More
2016-09-27 11:38
Disclaimer: I say South East Asia… but actually I’ve only been to Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam, so the list isn’t incredibly comprehensive. Enjoy, anyway.
South East Asia… Read More
2016-09-10 12:38
On board a cruise ship on the Åland Islands, FinlandAs ya’ll know by now, I was born and still live and study in Finland. It’s a country of natural beauty, social security… Read More
2016-09-01 14:03
After two months in Southeast Asia, I have come back home and in all it’s familiarity, it is strange. I still ride the same bus, but the number on it has changed. I sleep in the same b… Read More
2016-08-21 12:03
Impatient as ever, he was the first one in the water. I followed more slowly, carefully paddling through the shallow water in the darkness attentive for sharp edges, but my feet only met s… Read More
2016-08-11 10:54
Myanmar is the newest addition to the Southeast Asian backpacker trail. Previously the country and its military government have been heavily boycotted by foreign nations and the government… Read More
2016-08-05 14:34
The day I first saw him was the day after Halloween. There were bottles on the kitchen table, black bodypaint smeared all over one of the only two working bathrooms, hungover Irish talking… Read More
2016-07-28 09:33
Meeting new people from all walks of life is probably one of the best experiences of travelling. You get a chance to hang out with musicians, teachers, astronauts and hopeless drunkards, and… Read More
2016-07-19 11:55
With the nightfall came the rain. It fell heavy on the windshield as our cab crept along the traffic, slowly shuffling forward. The bus station turned out to be a maze of little holes in wal… Read More
2016-07-08 09:12
One of the first posts I ever published on this blog was a shameless praise to Tallinn, Estonia – one of my favourite cities in the world. Now, after more than a year of steady bloggin… Read More
2016-06-30 07:11
I never thought it would be a permanent home. I also never thought I would have to leave it so soon.
I’ve lived in my current apartment since December 2013. Usually you’d ha… Read More
2016-06-26 15:36
As you step out into the departures hall at the Sydney Airport, you are greeted by banners hanging from the ceiling, and they say: Welcome home. It was the furthest I could go without shoot… Read More
2016-06-18 15:22
If you’re European or just follow the news, you’ve definitely heard of Britain’s upcoming referendum on whether to stay in the European Union. With only four days to go, I… Read More
2016-06-09 15:33
As a destination, Åland Islands are seriously underrated. Most backpackers who visit Finland will only find their way to the country’s capital or to the mystic Lapland, making &A&hell…Read More
2016-06-03 15:27
Remember when I promised some time ago that I’d be doing a series of posts about language learning? If you’ve hopped onboard only recently, you can check out the fist post here… Read More
2016-05-26 14:04
This is a timed post since right now I should be on my way to Helsinki to meet up an old friend from my home town. She’s one of the most important people in my life but somehow we have… Read More
2016-05-21 14:24
Yo! I’m still alive and kicking, and I haven’t stopped blogging. I’ve been busy for the last few weeks, wrapping up the semester and cleaning toilets (because that’s… Read More
2016-05-15 16:37
After two weeks of backpacking through some of the bigger cities in the Southern Germany, I arrived in my new temporary home groggy but excited, my German a bit more easy to roll off… Read More
2016-04-23 15:39
Greece is the first foreign country where I’ve sat behind the wheel and taken to the roads in a rented car. I could have possibly picked up an easier country to start from.
Fro… Read More
2016-04-15 16:54
View from the rooftop bar in Athenstyle in Athens, GreeceHostels seem to have a bit of a bad rep around people who have never stayed in them. Over the last three and half years I’ve st… Read More
2016-04-15 16:54
View from the rooftop bar in Athenstyle in Athens, GreeceHostels seem to have a bit of a bad rep around people who have never stayed in them. Over the last three and half years I’ve st… Read More
2016-04-10 16:30
Underneath, the smooth marble hills of pale clouds lay like a barren desert; on the edge of the skies a burning rim of a setting sun, almost as if some mighty hand had set the edge of the… Read More
2016-04-02 12:11
Today’s the last day of my Greece trip and I’ve fallen in love with curvy mountain roads (that the Smartcar we rented can barely tackle), unexpected scenery and jovial old restau… Read More
2016-03-24 16:27
Peak season means seeing the garden of Versailles in full bloom, hot-air ballooning over Bagan in Myanmar, and white-water rafting in India. It also means hordes of tourists climbing on top… Read More
2016-03-18 16:45
Whitsunday Island, AustraliaThe sea was calm and the sky above blue, the waters inviting. I had been looking forward to my first dive. I had adventure on my mind but no fear because I knew I… Read More
2016-03-13 16:51
Hello friend,I found something I wrote months ago, and maybe I should have shown it to you then. In my parents’ house I chose my room at the age of six when we moved in. As if… Read More
2016-03-09 16:10
If you’ve ever backpacked in Australia, you know that party hostels are abundant and the party only stops for roadtrips and beach activities. I once woke up behind an Irish flag that w… Read More
2016-03-01 16:14
Like I mentioned in my latest post, I am going to Brazil on a student exchange next spring. Counting out the few weeks I will hopefully have time to travel in a few Spanish speaking countrie… Read More
2016-02-26 15:01
Someone might have wondered the bit of silence on the blog. It has been longer between posts than I would like, but as you probably know this isn’t the norm and I plan on continuing p… Read More
2016-02-16 16:31
I know I don’t really do travel guides often. Mainly this is because I can’t remember the names of the places I’ve been or the food I’ve eaten, and because I am terri… Read More
2016-02-10 18:11
Are the people on my Facebook feed just really aware of the world or is elephants suffering in the tourist industry really huge news at the moment? I can’t say, but I’ve ran into… Read More
2016-02-05 17:46
I have just got back from a few days getaway in Poland and I will soon be writing about it. In the meantime, have a story about rice.
Do you know how hard it is to get a bag of uncooked rice… Read More
2016-01-31 11:08
Hello stranger,
how are you now? Actually, don’t answer me. I’d rather not know. It isn’t that I don’t care (even though, to myself I must admit that I don’t… Read More
2016-01-26 14:18
Happy Australia Day!
I swear, for years I have jokingly been telling my friends that I was definitely born in the wrong country. After I visited Italy, I said I must’ve been an Italia… Read More
2016-01-21 15:10
I’ll admit it – I am no better than anyone else. I, too, follow a mostly clichéd Instagram account that spews out nice-sounding aphorisms for the rainy day. They sometim… Read More
2016-01-13 12:43
Flying over English countryside
I can’t believe I used to like airports. I had to actually go back to believe it myself, and in one of my previous blogs I actually wrote this about a… Read More
2016-01-07 17:25
Ultimate packing lists are impossible to write. The best one I ever read basically stated that you should pack whatever the heck you want, and I agree with that. There isn’t one right… Read More
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