Kategori: resor
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When I was a teenager, my parents took me to two separate trips. First my mom took me to Tunisia, and the next year my dad took me to London. I spoke with my sister today about some inheritance issues and about dad (he seems to getting used to being on his own now) so…
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My souvenir stories are in a completely wrong order… this one is the ’96 trip, the first one I did while in England. A colleague of mine was interested in visiting the US, so we bought Greyhound tickets that gave us unlimited travel for two weeks so we travelled up and down the East Coast…
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Didn’t I say that it’s already hard to remember the details of all old trips? I finally found my old photo albums and discovered that the Grand Canyon trip I wrote about yesterday was actually in 1999. In ’96 I did a Greyhound bus tour together with a pal in the East Coast US, and…
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Since I’m already totally out of ideas for my 365 project and it’s only been two weeks, I started rummaging through my old storage boxes for some hidden treasures. And that’s indeed what I found – in monetary terms, trash, but the stuff sure brough back some memories. I was trying to remember where I…
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I was going to hike to one of the ravines today but then I got a call from some members of the camera club who are on an annual excursion in Funäsdalen. Since I’ve been alone for over a week, I was only too happy to get some company so I abandoned the ravine and…
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I was supposed to get Ikea deliver my furniture today, but they called me in the morning to say that the car is broken so they will have to postpone it for tomorrow. My cabin is cursed, for sure. So I had to come up with a plan B, and quick. No vacation is complete…
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I’m not a Christmas person by any definition, but I know it’s important for my parents so I have a tradition of going to Finland every other Christmas. Since my parents live in a middle of a busy town, I knew beforehand that this would be no photography trip and thus travelled light with only…
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I was reading the latest Suomen Luonto (Finnish Nature) magazine that I brought with me from Finland. They had polled a number of Finns to find out what Finnish landscape they think is most beautiful, and the landscapes on offer ranged from seascapes to mountains and old industrial towns to farming. The winner was a…
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I’ve finally finished processing the pictures from my trip. Some of them worked out better than I expected, and some turned out to be not as good as I had hoped for. An acceptable average! The pictures in this blog post are not related to the text, other than that everything is related to my…
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I’m not a war buff but every Finn should know that war is part of their history. Finland had to fight for its independence and I’m not sure if people in countries like Sweden always appreciate their independence the same way Finns do. My parents’ generation experienced the war first hand, and my generation grew…