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Is there a better place to experience a turning point than the top of a mountain? For those with a decided lack of talent for rhetoric, the ones who immediately want to denounce that you may as well experience such turning point on the platform of a train station, or

I always travel without a smartphone. For the simple reason that I don’t own one, never have and I have no intention to buy one in the near future. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against technology. I don’t use a horse and carriage to get to places. (Instead, I

In Copán Ruinas, we slept in a beautiful colonial-style guesthouse called Madrugada. It was far from our usual simple and cheap accommodation. Nothing from the outside betrayed that a hotel lay behind the facade — it looked just like a regular yellow house with no signs. But once you gathered

Humans are funny. Chalk a line on the floor somewhere, call it a border and you can be sure that everybody wants to take a picture. It doesn’t even matter if the line is painted in the right location, like the Arctic Circle in Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, the

In the first part of this story, you could read how the sauna thawed Teemu. Three cans of beer later, he even turns out to be a gifted storyteller. The sauna stones act as an ersatz campfire. “According to a well-known Sami legend, the foxes of the polar region could