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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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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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Traffic

November 7, 2019

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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Asking price, people !

November 5, 2019

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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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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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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“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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Anniversary

Yesterday marks our 5 years anniversary as a couple! Half a decade! And just look now much we’ve done, how much we’ve traveled, which is one of our big passions we share. What did we do to celebrate this milestone? We spent some 7 hours (including breaks) in our van, driving a bit over 500 […]

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Vanlife

We’re temporary back to vanlife again. After 8 nights of having the comforts of separate rooms for sleeping, eating and… hygienic things, we’re back to our box on wheels. Everything’s so different. I really thought last week was the last time we’d sleep and live in the van, but with no luck of selling it […]