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362 days without a computer

As you might remeber, 16.9.2019 was a bad day for us in New Zealand. We had parked in a suburb next to a shop, went in to buy some snacks, and when we came back out, our van was broken into. You can read our initial reaction to that dreadful day here. A few days […]

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NZ bucketlist

When arriving to New Zealand we had a list of thing we wanted to do, like the bungee jump and mount doom. After so extensive traveling in NZ we were feeling over saturated of the amazing places the cou try has to offer. We didn’t pursue all the the places with intensity that might have […]

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Ireland

Long time no see

Since we can’t travel, and Google Photos reminded us where we were 3 years ago, here’s a throwback to Ireland.

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Australia
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Peparation
Petri
Travel
Writing challenge

Dropping the ball

So it seems I am not doing a good job with my writing challenge. The past few days we have been relaxing and binging Netflix at a friend’s place in Melbourne. It has been awesome and we’re been gathering stenght to continue travelling soon as our flight to Thailand is closing in soon. It seems […]

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New Zealand
Petri
thailand
Travel
Writing challenge

Kia Ora, Aoteroa!

We sold our van, and after 381 days were finally leaving New Zealand for good! Well atleast for now… It’s been an amazing experience and we’re extremely happy we had the chance to fulfill our dreams of doing a working holiday here. It’s been a loooong journey that has had its ups and downs. We […]

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New Zealand
Petri
Travel
Writing challenge

435 days!

People have been asking us how long have we been in NZ and have always been surprised how accurately we are able to answer how many days ago we left Finland. This is because I made a counter back in 2017 that we used to motivate our preparation phase. We added the detailed time when […]

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Peparation
Petri
Travel
Writing challenge

Shoes

One of the first things I started researching about when we decide to go for this travelling adventure was shoes. I wanted something that waa durable acceptable for most circumstances and of course fairly cheap. Now people who know me can testify that I’m not a shoe guy. For the past 15 years I’ve been […]

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Australia
Bali
cultural differences
English
Indonesia
New Zealand
Petri
Travel
Writing challenge

Traffic

In Finland we are taught to respect people’s  right to do something unpredictable.You can call it a mentality for tolerancesWe leave space for something unexpected to happen I have noticed that this mentality is best represented in trafficFinns leave space for others and try to be as predictable as possible so others don’t have to […]

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cultural differences
English
New Zealand
Petri
Travel
Writing challenge

Asking price, people !

I might be a rugged Finn that plays by the book, and is obsessed on following the rules. Thats why it comes as a huge shock when people haggle 25% off our asking price for the van. I think this goes to the same category as tipping, why is it needed for the waiters to […]

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movember
Petri
Writing challenge

November bro!

I’ve always said that movember challenge is for men that always wanted moustaches but are too scared to grow one without an excuse! However I think movember campaign is the best excuse you can think of, if you need more reasons than “I want to sport my own facial hair that is under my knose […]

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