I spent about two-thirds of the year bumming around exotic locations and having fun :).

My original plan involved me spending “only” six months on the road but, luckily ;), that has later changed. Overall, I spent about 2,5 months in Malaysia, 2 months in India, 6 weeks in Nepal, roughly 3 weeks in Vietnam, about 2 each in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, and then a few days in Singapore too :).

I’ve had a number of quite interesting experiences during my travels including things like being interviewed for a film documentary in Nepal, eating apple pie at the Everest Base Camp, walking a tiger on a leash and playing with a tiger cub, firing an AK-47 (Kalashnikov) in Cambodia, hitch-hiking in Thailand, being attacked and scratched by a langur, being headbutted by a yak, being stung by jellyfish in Viet Nam, snorkeling with turtles and sharks in Malaysia, being hit by a motorbike in India, being a target of several news-photographers and journalists in Kuala Lumpur, being electrocuted in a shower, watching maaaany episodes of The Simpsons in Laos, riding on a bus that almost drove off a mountain road, performing a DIY ingrown toenail removal on Borneo, taking two cooking courses, seeing the world’s largest flower, orangutans, and fireflies lighting up the rainforest.

I’ve kept a travel diary throughout the trip, but just haven’t been very good in putting it all online. I do it though every now and then when I got enough time and motivation to spend a few hours typing. By now, India is almost complete (up to Hampi); most of my long trek to the Everest Base Camp is now online as well.

This is not a travelogue as such. I just decided to include on this site some photos taken here where I live; in cities which I visit on a more-or-less regular basis

Hi people! This is the journal covering some 38 hours around the final game of the World Cup 2006. 38 hours including a 1300km roadtrip to Berlin and back, watching the game on a big screen on the "Fan Mile" along thousands of other people, partying until sunrise (OK, sometimes not very vigorously ;)), 0 hours of sleep, some sightseeing in the morning after the game, getting lost, looking for lost people, criss-crossing Berlin and, overall, loads of fun :). Msg to the safety-conscious people: don't worry, the driver did sleep :).

I will spend the coming five months; from the 29th of July until the 21st of December, in the North of Europe. Finland will be the country in which most of that time will be spent. I start out by spending a few days in Helsinki. Afterwards I'll be taking a month-long language course in Oulu which lies some 200 km from the Arctic circle. It will also serve as a base from which I'll travel across Lapland. At the end of August I'll move some 300 km to the South to Jyväksylä where I will be an exchange student until the end of the year. This does not mean, however, that it'll be the only I'll see during that period. Russia, Sweden, Estonia, maybe Norway (plus, of course, a number of places in Finland itself) are on the to-visit list.

Obviously, I have already come back home.
Thx for reading so far

Journal covering the few days I spent in Rome in early February 2005. My goal for these days was to see and visit all, or at least majority of, the most important and interesting sites that are strewn across this city. With the exception of the Galleria Borghese and some sites along Via Appia Antica I managed to do just that.