Category: Travel: Nordics

Faroe Islands

Visiting the Faroe Islands: Europe’s best-kept secret

• anjci
• on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Take Ireland’s intense green pastures, sheep and stone Celtic walls segmenting the hills. Add Norway’s fjords, Viking mood and modern architecture. Slowly mix in Iceland’s secludedness, fishing tradition and language...

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Faroe Islands

Whaling on the Faroe Islands

• anjci
• on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Before reporting on my recent trip to the Faroe Islands, I could not help commenting on the infamous “dolphin slaughter” frequently associated with the archipelago. Some of you may have...

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Iceland

Iceland: Land of the sagas

• anjci
• on Thursday, May 6th, 2010

As my trip to Iceland was approaching, I was getting increasingly more worried. Not only had my holiday in Hong Kong been cancelled because of the volcanic eruption in Iceland...

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Goodbye, Suomi!

• anjci
• on Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Ok, some things have to be officially closed before they are over. I am leaving Suomi tomorrow. For the past couple of weeks, everything has been a reminder of my...

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Free as a bird

• anjci
• on Saturday, May 20th, 2006

Nothing beats the feeling of a last exam being over! My nasty professor came up with a very love-thy-neighbour exam. Maybe his wife gave birth to a girl looking exactly...

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Back in Finland… last time around

• anjci
• on Friday, May 12th, 2006

Heippa! I have just submitted my Master’s thesis, stitched and bound, printed out in 4 copies, supplied with half a dozen mandatory forms and generally nice and colourful. Never mind...

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Memories from Norwegian National Day 17 May

• anjci
• on Monday, February 20th, 2006

I remember travelling to Norway in 2004. I was an exchange student at Handelshögskolan i Kalmar, Sweden, at the time. It was going to be my second visit to the...

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Those offensive cartoons

• anjci
• on Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

On 30 September, 2005, Danish daily best-seller Jyllands-Posten publishes a number of cartoons. Starring, among others: caricatured prophet Muhammad, the key charismatic figure of Islam. All very well, but Islam...

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Deutschland -> Latvija -> Suomi

• anjci
• on Saturday, February 4th, 2006

It has been forever since I last wrote, although not exactly because things have not been happening. Quite the contrary – this life has been doing its utter best to...

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