We took a day off from traveling and spent the whole day in Helsinki. After all the challenges of previous days our little girls deserved much needed rest. Experiencing Helsinki by sea was just what we needed on this trip, so we took IHA-Lines 1,5h lunch cruise through the beautiful Eastern Archipelago, and spent the...
The Baltic Sea had been in my memories since my early days. I remember when as a young boy I used to spend whole summers playing on its white beaches on the Polish coast. It’d been a small handful of experiences that made me feel happy. And just like Laura stands there on the Yyteri...
The 8:30AM-ferry took us from Oulusale to the island of Hailuoto, the largest one on the northern Gulf of Bothnia. We closed on the dock after half an hour sail, then drove through the countryside dotted with farm buildings before reaching the village of Marjaniemi at the westernmost point of the island. It’s hard to...
The alarm woke us up at 5:30AM. An hour later we were on our way. Ahead of us was 200 km drive to Kopmanholmen where we were to jump on the 9AM-ferry to the island of Ulvön situated at the heart of the High Coast. In the year 2000 the High Coast was included in...
Our road trip alongside the Baltic Sea coastline may not seem to be as challenging in many ways as my lonely circumnavigation of the globe. There are no major dangers in the region compared to my around the world journey – the politic situation is stable, no natural disasters are expected, the crime is on...
Circumnavigating planet Earth was amazing. Even before I started my trip, I became so involved in what I was going to do that the rest of the world seemed to disappear. For months, I went to bed thinking about the project, and it was the first thing on my mind when I woke up. I...
New York was one destination before last, and it was the first time I crossed routes with my previous experiences. I’d spent seven months living outside of the city a few years back, so it was lovely to relieve old memories. In the same time, as I was approaching the end of my trip, I...
Some people are motivated by achievement, others by process, others by a blend of both. But no matter what it is, everyone who pursues a dream learns many lessons along the way. I learned that if you badly want something, take some risks and ask for help, people will often help you. It happened to...
Formerly, even in the most favourable circumstances, a man needed at least a few months to cross either India or America from the west to the east coast. But technological innovations which took place in the second half of the 19th century had opened a new possibility of rapid traveling. In particular, three technological breakthroughs...
So many unexpected things happened as I roamed the world. At times either I had that weird feeling in my stomach while getting seasick when crossing the Mediterranean or East China Seas or my heart was in my mouth when the mega earthquake and the accompanying tsunami hit Japan on 11th of March, killing thousands...