I must confess. I’m not a huge fan of churches. Sure, I don’t mind visiting churches while travelling, and they are all magnificent, but I just don’t appreciate old art or old architecture as much as a devout church-tourist should. I often like admiring them from the outside, but I rarely go inside unless my […]
Russia
St Pete – the food, the drinks, the stories
It’s not about the food. It’s about the stories experienced around the food. The stories shared around the food. Ok, I lie. It is also about the food. But also about the stories. So now, experiences, stories and thoughts linked to food or drink establishments during my time in St P. Georgian food. When one […]
St Pete – the skyscrapers, the bridges, the palaces
St Petersburg, one of my favourite cities where I lived for three years, never explored as an adult and without being accompanied by a parent. So now, when I needed (well, wanted) to visit a foreign place which didn’t involve flying, what better choice than this cultural capital of Russia, just three hours train ride […]
Karelia: 74 years after
Relatives are a fun bunch to travel with. I was reminded of this in Lapland; and it was reconfirmed in Karelia earlier this month. My relatives and I had the chance to revisit family history by going on a kind of package trip with a busful of other Finns to go and visit old family history […]