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Carneval Row

Have you heard of this new series with Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne, set in a timeline similar to the Victorian Era, and there’s different creatures like fae’s, pucks, werewolves, men and there’s a lot of drama and plot twists? No? Sounds interesting? If yes, you’re welcome! We’ve been watching a couple of episodes per […]

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New Zealand

Paranoia

Though being back is nice, and we haven’t been able to fully enjoy it. We’ve run quite a few errands today, administrative things for the van and also grocery shopping for us. And every time we’ve pulled the curtains so that no one can see into the van and get tempted of breaking in. And […]

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New Zealand

Catching up on sleep

So our past week have been rather intense, and very WiFi limited, and therefore the blog have been quite quiet. We arrived back in New Zealand yesterday morning, after a night of barley any sleep on the flights back here. We managed to get ourselves back to our van. It was a bittersweet moment. To […]

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Australia
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New Zealand
Writing challenge

“So good”

Internet, and especially Youtube is full of information on the slang expressions used in this part of the world. Though we have had a bit less contact with locals, here are the ones from New Zealand that we have picked up and actually use; Yeah nah – means no, and it stuck quickly and I […]

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Bali
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ATMs

This might be a weird topic, but it’s something that shocked both me and Petri in Bali. As far as I can recall, majority of all countries I’ve visited and used an ATM machine in, follows the same pattern. Insert your card, pin, how much you want to withdraw, with/without receipt, card comes out, cash […]

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Writing challenge

Into the wild – Book Review

[Warning; does contain description of the story] Into the wild by Jon Krakauer I think most people have at least heard of, and probably seen, the movie based on the same story. I myself watched the movie some 8-10 years ago with my friend Emma. I recently chatted with a California based friend, Ivy, who […]

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Australia
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Birthday on the road

Petri had his second birthday in a row on this same trip! Which is pretty cool! We hadn’t initially planned anything special. Then we decided to go on a road trip with friends to the Australian outback! I wanted to make it special. So I asked our friend to see if he could fix a […]

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Bali
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Sleepless high above

Recently we have had a few travel days planned in and the idea is that “we have the chance to sleep then”. I’m usually sleep ok during flights, to Petri’s annoyance. So we had planned a night flight from Bali to Melbourne, starting at 21.00, and being about 6 hours long. Arriving rested and ready […]

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Bali
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410 days

Today we’ve been traveling for 410 days since we left Finland. 360 of them has been spent in New Zealand. And today is also the day we are leaving Bali. We’ve had a very good time here, trying out different yoga styles and classes have been fun but challenging, food has been so tasty and […]

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Bali
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Aerial Yoga

We had quite an eventful day, and therefore this blog is so late published. But. We had seen aerial yoga on the schedule, and I have to confess that it sounded tempting, even though I have quite limited yoga experience. One girl I spoke with last week said she had tried it and it was […]

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