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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

After all that whining about the Riviera Maya, you might suspect that I dragged myself with a long face through the Yucatan for five weeks. Couldn’t be further from the truth. Even though we only discovered a small piece of Mexico, it left us craving to see more of this

“Almost every evening, on returning to the convent, the padrecito hurried into our room, with the greeting, “buenas noticias! otra ruinas!” “good news! more ruins!”(John Lloyd Stephens – Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan) *** The Maya world – Yucatan and northern Central America – is strewn