Month: November 2019
Australia
English
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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English
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
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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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New Zealand
Petri
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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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English
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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English
Petri
Travel
Uncategorized
Writing challenge
Consider me challenged!
As you know Petra has been doing a set of challenges with writing the past couple of months. She has accepted the following challenges : Blog post every day in September Preptober challenge for writing a novel in November, the NaNoWriMo challenge (to write 1667 words a day in November) Blog post every day in […]
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