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When you’re dirt tired from travelling, a roof over your head is enough. It’s during these moments that you realise – too late – that your standards have dropped a bit too low. You’re sleeping in a horrid place. And no, I’m not talking about slow wifi or cold coffee.

The GR5A, the Hiking Route of Flanders, loops along the provincial borders of East and West Flanders. For a magazine story, I walked 165 kilometres from Bruges to Antwerp. In the shadowless polders, I discovered that a Flemish Indian summer is no longer what it once was. The problem with

On short and cold winter days, you’re forgiven for wanting to stay indoors all day, tucked under a blanket in front of Netflix. For us, however, winter is as beautiful a season as any for hiking in Estonia. From the first snowfall in December until now, barely a week has

As we headed straight for the pillar of a bridge, I tried to recall Algis’ advice. We sat in a shaky canoe on the Raudna river and collision was unavoidable. But with the best will in the world, I couldn’t remember what Algis had told us to do in case

Travelling to Central America, you have to say goodbye to the Scandinavian minimalism. No-one there has heard anything about white on white or a million shades of grey. Just like locals who are loud and smiling, the colour palette of this part of the world is just insane. People paint