Tuomas kirjoitti äskettäin englanniksi ensimmäisistä päivistämme maailmanympärimatkalla. Tässä vielä suomeksi tärkeimpiä asioita alkumatkalta. Lentomme Helsingistä Tukholman ja Dohan (Qatarissa) kautta Nepalin Kathmanduun sujuivat hyvin, vaikkakin olimme matkalla noin vuorokauden, emmekä juuri nukkuneet. Kathmandussa vietimme kolme yötä mukavassa ja siistissä perushostellissa, Trekker's homessa Thamelissa, joka on Kathmandun reppureissaajien k...

Here we go! Or went… Our amazing RTW ('round the world) trip started on a brisk morning in Helsinki, where we were staying with Tuomas's parents. They took us to the airport where we were joined by Sini's father and brothers who all came to wish us luck on our journey. After the airport security had confiscated our babyfoods, which we took as lunch as we have sometime before, we sat down to contemplate on what was ahead: 7 months of freedom, new experiences ...

I started writing this blog text a while ago but didn't get it quite ready until now. I'm currently sitting at Helsinki airport waiting for our first flight to take off. We are both so excited! Here are some of my thoughts about this whole gap year thing. J To me this gap year is about doing something I have never done before. It is in a way about being free to do pretty much what I and we want to. I have always been happy with my life and with the way I have ...

Planning everything and anything even remotely related to traveling has of course made me consider the possibility of theft on the road. Someone might in some part of the trip try to pickpocket or even mug us when we're out there in the scary world (not saying it couldn't happen at home, it would just feel stupid to prepare to these things here…). The word on the street is that a tourist is always an easy target for would be robbers and what not, since we usual...

As we stated in the first blog entry we made, we love to plan things. Or maybe it's just me… Anyway, planning things includes making lists. Very long and comprehensive lists… Like this one here! Truthfully speaking this list is just ridiculously long, but a lot of it is because I've listed all the things like toothpaste and the different medicines (of which there are a lot) as separate items instead of combining them under "oral hygiene" or "meds". That bei...