This might be just me, but… don't you just hate drinking wine out of something other than a wine glass? We enjoy our wines, we're by no means any sort of experts on them, but we drink them fairly regularly at home. So far the times we've had wine on this trip have been few and far between, but even so, a question has risen: how to drink this elegantly? We have two cups with us, foldable plastic ones that we use while brushing our teeth. Any liquids drunk from t...

The second day of our Aussie road trip started on a camping ground just south of Brisbane. We had slept pretty OK in our station wagon with Sini's yoga mat and a couple of Ikea-blankets to soften the floor of the trunk and the tipped back seats. Even the few flying bugs that had flown in the night before hadn't bothered us much. We had a breakfast of uncooked toast with peanut butter and jam, accompanied by porridge which we cooked with some difficulty on our han...

There's nothing quite like going home after a long trip abroad. Or that's what we thought. Turns out visiting an Ikea store overseas is the next best thing! We had long ago made plans to rent a campervan in New Zealand and an RV in the USA, but we hadn't made any such plans for Australia until we were in Indonesia. There we decided to rent a station wagon (farmari in Finnish) with all sorts of camping gear and an option of sleeping inside the vehicle. So a day...

After more than three months in Asia we were excited to move on and go to a western country. Australia was one of the countries we wanted to visit from early on, it was probably on the first list we made back in the summer of 2013. We didn't really know what we would be doing there though and we'd only managed to make plans of where to arrive in and where to leave. Our two and a half weeks would start in Brisbane and end in Sydney, for no particular reason. Looki...