Weekly Photo Challenge: Zigzag
Going through my photos I suddenly noticed this zigzag. I took this photo from the top of a chruch tower in Rovinj, Croatia. The old town makes a zigzag with the jetty. I love the colors in this picture!
Travel theme: meeting place
The Grote Markt or Grand Place in Brussel is a vibrant place with lots of activities. It is centrally located and besides gorgeous buildings, has some amazing cafés. It is a meeting place for a nice get-together. During my stay in Brussels I came back to this place again and…
Vienna’s history repeats daily
The center of Vienna houses an old clock. Every day at midday its inhabitants start dancing on a variety of music. I just had to check it out. I feel like a child in anticipation of the Punch and Judy show. But this is the Austrian version. The Anker clock…
Socially awkward: Russian nights
When in St. Petersburg, do as the Russians do. I was there with a big group of international Erasmus students and we opted for a traditional Russian night in a restaurant. There were exchange students that came from all over Finland and not just the uni where I was staying at…
Back to Vienna
When I was at home, travelling was going on short trips, city trips being one of the favorites. I’ve been away from home for a while now, and even though I’m exploring some of the most beautiful places on earth, I miss Europe. I miss the cities full of history.…
Day trip to Norway
One day on our big Lapland road trip, we planned to go to Norway. The idealists, or fools, among us thought we should go to the North Cape. After two days of being late all the time they still hadn’t learnt this was just not realistic. We opted for a…
Weekly Photo Challenge: On The Move
One summer I was working on the island Sardinia in Italy. We were based in a small town called St. Lucia. A short walk brought us to the beach. On my day off, me and a colleague hired mountain bikes to explore a track down the coast. On our bikes…
Roadtripping Lapland or Good news and Bad news
I’m excited about our road trip to Lapland when I walk over to my friend’s flat. The first thing he tells me is that we have good and we have bad news. The good news is that the car we rented, which he picked up the night before, works, the bad…
Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring!
Bright colors, wearing T-shirts, sitting outside even it’s still a bit chilly to catch the first sunshine, new flowers coming up… springtime! A few years ago I spent this time of year in Finland. It was gorgeous to see the snow melt and the flowers come up. We would go…
Winter in Lapland
We’d planned a day of winter activities in Finnish lapland. I went to the big house to ask where we could find something fun to do, but unfortunately there was nobody home who spoke English. We drove to a petrol station near the Norwegian border. There was a supermarket as…