March 2007: Getting stuck at the Malaysian/Thai border (Sadao crossing point – village in the middle of nowhere!) void any cash in either currency and credit cards blocked courtesy of...
…It was a pain to get up at 2:50am, but the bus would not wait. Instead of a longish lie-in, I had to drag my weary bones all the way...
Finnair Business Class, it reads on a shiny plaque a few rows ahead. Together with speeded check-in and security, extra drinks/bread and a hot towel before meals, that little symbol...
This will be an entry from the top of my luggage, currently proudly standing at 80kg. The last similar situation I can recall was leaving Helsinki almost exactly one year...
Ok, back indeed, full of impressions: Londoners seem to be hooked on iPod. Every tenth person (or so) on my way sported the trademark white earphones. It feels like being...
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...
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...
Ok, home city welcomed me with sleet, frost, grey mornings and what not. The skin on my hands all but dried up from the cold. The stomach reacted happily to...
The anonymous warm-up “special guests” got on everybody’s nerves with the electronic ’80’s sound a-la Soft Cell, Human League, or, whatever, Gary Numan. The keyboard-playing female moved to the music...