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Joining the Georgian olympic team in Otepää
Posted: 2008-02-21 02:00:47, Categories: Travel, Estonia, Hospitality exchange, 583 words (permalink)The first weekend of February I traveled to Otepää in Estonia to participate in VastlaCamp, a Hospitality Club and CouchSurfing meeting. With a few friends I ended up joining the Georgian team in Winter Olympics which were not even part of the camp. :)… more »
Internet censored in Finland
Posted: 2008-02-19 00:42:47, Categories: General, Finland, Politics, 131 words (permalink)Freedom is important for me. Freedom of movement, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, right to receive information. The two last ones have been recently violated in Finland. The Finnish police has been maintaining a blocklist of… more »
A Californian girl asked in a message on CouchSurfing how to see the world in an environmentally friendly way. As she said, there are eco-tourism companies out there, but traveling IN nature is not the same thing as treading lightly ON it. I've gathered… more »
Christmas and New Year greetings
Posted: 2007-12-21 12:03:24, Categories: General, 188 words (permalink)You can read my Christmas and New Year haiku in English, in Finnish or in Japanese. A haiku is a poem consisting traditionally of a pattern of 5, 7 and 5 Japanese language sounds, or syllables. More recently poets have taken liberties of deviating from… more »
Article on crossing Romania by bicycle
Posted: 2007-12-21 11:48:30, Categories: Travel, Romania, Moldova, Cycling, 75 words (permalink)A while ago a friend from the Finnish-Romanian Friendship Association asked if I could write an article about my bicycle tour in Romania for their magazine Viesti-Veşti. The article was published in the most recent issue and it's also available… more »
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