Blog posts

I believe the art of storytelling is slowly becoming obsolete in our fast paced society, where most of us, including me, only share photos and check-in to places on social media to show our travels. While this provides tiny glimpses into faraway places, it does not actually describe the experience of travelling – all of us can take the same photo in the same exact place, but our journeys will always be unique.

Here you will find a collection of my travel stories, which deserve to be told in full. I invite you to take a moment, relive some of them with me and get inspired to travel:

Tales of human kindness

• The “don’t judge a book by its cover” experience in Borjomi
• How I didn’t spend a single penny in a day at Windermere
• An impromptu road trip to the Blue mountains

• Couchsurfing in Rovaniemi: sauna beer and a possessed cat

Behind the photo

• The scarily enthusiastic reindeer of Kiruna
• Keeping up with the wombats
• A toilet with a view

Mixed travel stories

• The chaos of marshrutkas, Georgian public minivans
• Logic does not apply to the Georgian public toilets
• How I ended up in Australia
• Windswept Kiruna
• A schnitty rideshare experience in Australia
• The asinine expedition to Štvanice (a Prague island)
• My Finnish candy haul
• The Finnish-Slovenian token exchange
• How to do laundry in Sweden

 

This part of my blog features my non-travel and less photo-heavy posts, which showcase what makes me, me. Here you’ll find a bit of everything: engineering and historical musings, random thoughts, projects and opinions, as well as books, art, food, geek stuff, travel trivia and other things. I am after all, erratic, in both my interests and sometimes my temper.