tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90986950551608795002011-09-16T18:40:25.241+02:00A sort of jurnal of my travelling times: past, present and future (not necessarily chronological)...Anahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16710129068676468722noreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9098695055160879500.post-41733942868054669532010-12-19T18:17:00.048+01:002010-12-19T21:08:48.150+01:00

The past 4-5 years seem to have been a series of crazy attempts to squeeze as many 'special memories' into our lives as our free time and wallets would allow it. And luckily we've been quite busy...Not wanting to break a working pattern, we decided this summer to go on a road trip in Europe, in an attempt to ¨relax/ have an adventure/ visit at least 2 countries we both wanted¨. Deciding which

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If you're not familiar with the Swedish winter, you should know that it is made up of 4-5 months of cold weather and not enough sunlight (some people simply call it - 'the dark'). This starts in November, more or less, and it lasts until the end of March, more or less. Having already experienced the Swedish Christmas in this setting, we decided it was time to take a break and travel to warmer

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This august we've been fortunate enough to be able to go to Portugal for our summer vacation. It's such a wonderful country! We spent 3 days in Albufeira, enjoying the beach and exploring the southern coast, with its exotic landscape, then drove up the coast to the Setubal (& Lisbon) region for 3 more days, before returning to Algarve to spend our last day of the trip in Faro, an old harbor town

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Hunedoara is a town in Romania that hosts one of the most impressive castles in the country: ¨Castelul Huniazilor¨/ or ¨Corvins' Castle¨. I've visited this place twice already; the second time in March, to show my husband around. The town itself is not that impressive with the outskirts looking like a balkan style 'village/ town outskirts hybrid' and the industrial areas around the town not

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It's quite nice in Stockholm, in the summer; the temperature rarely goes above 30 degrees Celsius and the wind is mild. It almost makes up for the cold and dark winters. I always tend to get surprised when the temperatures start to drop, at the beginning of September. These shots are all I have left now from the summer that seems to have vanished without a notice...

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Even though I hadn't found it very exciting the last time around, here I was again on a ferry heading to Helsinki, at the end of August. My parents were visiting and we thought that the trip would be some good fun. We weren't wrong... The city does have another aura in the summer; we enjoyed strolling the long boulevards and the beautiful parks, as well as visiting and taking pictures in the

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I have been meaning to publish this since February, but only managed now ... A particular chilly February morning we decided to kick the Saturday habit of sleeping late and went out for a day trip. We started the day by driving to Stavsnäs in order to get on the ferry that goes to Sandhamn; a place we had not been to, but had read about recently on a website. Later, we headed to Lidingö to

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I don't think there's a lot of people that would say 'no' to a skiing vacation... I know I'm not such a person. So, when I got 4 days off aligned I figured it's just the right thing to do, especially in winter time. Finding the place to go to was the time consuming bit, but once we figured that out the rest was easy (book a hotel, rent a car etc). So, we ended up in Borlänge - Dalarna ... not bad

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So, I finally got a real vacation after more than 4 years and I managed to get myself driven by melancholy into going back east, with the first stop being Budapest. Now, after 'surviving' the relatively short trip, I think that I would have enjoyed Greece twice as much, if not more.Anyways, it wasn't all that bad... I just didn't feel very happy or relaxed after the experience; these, supposedly,

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It happened all of a sudden. We were looking for last minute trips for a long weekend and we had been hesitating between different destinations and price tags. And so, in the middle of all that, an idea came to me about Holland.Their national team had just defeated my country's at the Euro championship and I decided to go and see for myself what they were about. Call it crazy, but I think it was

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Helsinki brought back memories from my childhood. It has this familiar air to it for everyone who's a native of Eastern Europe. Maybe it's the gray and unimpressive buildings, or the low key way the people dress and act, or maybe it was just the chilly air of spring blowing on the semi-empty, 'socialist' looking like, streets of the city on that Saturday morning when our ship reached the Helsinki

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I've been on a trip back to my home country just recently and if I were to sum up my impressions in just a few words, I'd say "wow, things are finally beginning to change".And I think that "beginning" is the right word for the process that the country is undergoing. You can see the land being worked again and new constructions rising everywhere around you, and people are smiling again....But

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I have spent almost 4 months in Maine about 4 years ago during the summer of 2004. It turns out I've had quite the summer that year as a lot of interesting things kept happening all of a sudden and a sweet feeling of adventure was floating in the air. When I got off the plane in Boston I remember feeling very tired and quite disappointed of my surroundings. My first impression of the

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Since I haven't made any New Year resolutions this year I can't really feel bad about myself if things don't really come up the way I would want them by December. However, from the point of view of my travelling ideas let's just hope that the lack of pressure will just make more of them possible :).For instance, I plan to visit a few of the places that I've always wanted to see since I was a kid;

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