Now that the decision is made to leave, Oxford makes it hard: This week only we got recognise as regular customers at all our favourite eating out places: the Nepalease momo stall at the City Market, where they prepared the…
Magic Mountains
The wonderful day in the mountains ended with a visit of a small vinery and a surprising vine tasting during sunset. But it wasn’t planned like that… We were planning on renting a boat to cruise around the peninsula of…
Cyprus b/w
In the middle of the mountains, after a brief hike, we found this monastery – or what was left of it…
Cyprus divided
The issue of borders was part of all of my trip in 2014, essential and obvious while travelling the Balkans or crossing the border between Estonia and Russia, but it is even more visible, when you are in a divided…
Cyprus unplanned
The Cyprus trip started off with no real planning. We had a travel guide with us but didn’t manage to read a bit. We booked the essential things, like a phenomenal airbnb with a huge terrasse, the flights and a…
World Revisited: Balkan Road Trip
World Revisited: I haven’t been posting so much the last six months, it didn’t mean that I wasn’t travelling (Andalucia, UK, Estonia, Riga and Bratislava were destinations), I just didn’t manage to put pictures and texts here. In a few…
Oxford – You better bring boots…
When you think of Oxford, you think of all these impressive castle-like colleges and students walking around the town in their gowns. Last Sunday I had the chance to see another part of Oxford. Situated at the river Thames, big…
Nomadic December: UK and Poland re-visited
Being ‘in between apartments’ in December, it seemed like a great idea to spend that time away from Hamburg, with no place to be anyway. Looking forward to the next two weeks, when I will stay at 5 different places…
Crossing borders, choosing sides?
When I was travelling through Asia, we were crossing a lot of borders using different means of transportation. So we went from Burma to Thailand by plane, from Thailand to Laos by boat, from Laos to Cambodia on foot and…
Tampere: Visiting the garden of death
During my third visit in Finland (not counting all the stops at Helsinki airport) I got the chance to get out of Helsinki and see a different part of the country. Our search for traces of the Finnish Civil War…