I sort of hate to travel maybe

Pictures in this post are from Mallorca where we just went last month.

My family took me all over the Europe when I was a kid and we did one long distance trip to the US too and I loved every moment. When I was a teenager we started to go to beach vacations only with my mum, which was also lovely, we would just lay in the beach all day. I especially love Thailand. When I started to have jobs and my own money, I started to travel with my friends and sometimes even alone in: USA, Japan, all over Europe. I would sleep at hostels and meet new cool friends who would go out to party with us. I can not lie that is the coolest thing from my youth! I have tried hitchhiking and couchsurfing too which were awesome experiences.

Then I got a boyfriend, so naturally I started to travel with him. But we are older now so we only sleep at hotels and don't meet anyone new while travelling. So basically you would think that having your own room and privacy would make travelling a lot nicer! Yes, it is a lot more comfy, but the experience it self is boring, especially now that I do not want to lay in the sun all day and make my skin old af in exchange for 2 weeks tan. So basically beach vacations are pointless now, yes I love to swim in warm water, but that's it.

City vacations are even worse. Walk walk walk walk walk walk walk! Look at a landmark for 2 minutes, take a picture of it, which you already knew how it looks like. Tourists everywhere. What else can we do? Oh, shopping? But I hate spending money and I don't need new stuff. I buy new stuff only when my old stuff is broken. Restaurants are nice, but pricey.

Conclusion: if you wanna have fun when you travel, go to hostels and socialize. The cheaper you travel the more fun you will have! Party with new people. Go hike in the countryside and rural areas to avoid all the typical tourist spots and see different kind of nature. But sometimes this is easier said than done! The most fun I had was when I went alone and was forced to socialize.

But the worst part is the actual travelling and planning it. I don't live near any airport so I have to plan everything very precisely and check that every transport vehicle matches each other and is also affordable. Waiting for the train or bus which takes you to the airport. Then going to the airport and dragging your big bag around. And so on, you know how it works. It's of course easier if you live in the same city as the airport. And if your destination is also in the same city as it's airport.

I am an expat, so I need to go to my homecountry a few times a year. I used to be super excited everytime I'm going there, because hey it's my homecountry! And everyone speaks my language, the amazing nature, all my friends and family are there and I love the crazy wide selection of grocery store products. But I am going there next week and I am not excited at all. It's such a hassle to get there and am I gonna enjoy my stay to the fullest to go through all that trouble? Recent visits haven't been so fulfilling to be honest. I have also noticed that most of my friends have moved on with their lives and don't care if they don't see me during my visits. But thats a whole other issue I could write a whole post about.

Here is my whole trip plan:
Take a bus from home to the train station. Take 2 different trains towards Copenhagen, then change to a bus until I'm finally at CPH airport. It takes 3.5 hours because they have some road work during the summer. But hey tickets cost only 99kr. I am extremely nervous that one of those trains is late, because danish trains are VERY often late. That means I can miss my flight. Well then there's the 1,5h flight to Helsinki. One way ticket cost only 25eur! I was very lucky with the prices, but you have to understand that I have been searching for those tickets for many weeks until I found cheap ones. When I'm in Helsinki in the evening my friend will pick me up. I sleep at her place and spend the next day with her. The day after that I take a 5h bus ride to east Finland with onnibus, which cost only 6eur. Yes another extremely cheap ticket, because I happened to buy it when they had some discount thing going on. I spend a week in Joensuu with my parents and possibly my bro. I love the nature in there so much, this is what I'm looking forward to the most, I just hope there's nice weather. Then I take a bus back to Helsinki (6e) and sleep at my friend's place again. The next day is Weekend Festival yaas! We were there last year too and it was the best day of the year. The day after that I have a flight back to Denmark and the same shit with trains and buses (same prices too).

Why can't anyone invent a teleport?!?!?
Bye.

Finnish winter

Decided to post a few winter pictures from Finland. I love the real finnish winter when there's 2 meters of snow, from -15 up to -30 C of "pakkanen" (minus degrees) and no wind. 

I have noticed while living in Denmark that all the danes truly hate snow and feel sorry for me when I go to Finland during winter, I really get offended by that. But I have now realized why they think like that. It's because their idea of snow and winter is pretty shitty. When it snows in Denmark, 90% of the time it's sleet (mix of snow and water) and it just violently pours down and makes everyone's lives miserable. Some winters Denmark doesn't get any snow (sleet), some winters they have it for a few days. Of course we get sleet in Finland too, especially in the spring all the roads are full of sleet and ice. But back to the winter! When it's snowing in Finland, the snow falls down slowly and gracefully. Really peaceful. Unless if it's time for snowstorm, but I'm not talking about that now.. Most of the time when it's snowing it's just amazing winter wonderland. 

Another thing the danes feel sorry for me is the fact that it's so damn cold in Finland. Yeah, it is I agree, but it's fine! We are not pussies! We put on thick warm winter clothes! Then it's warm outside! Also no one really knows this, but Finland has extreme temperatures. In the winter it can be -30C, but in the summer it can climb up to +30C. Sometimes we have "helle" (heatwave) for many weeks which means it feels like being in Italy, Greece or similar and everyone goes swimming in one of our thousands of lakes :) 

I feel like I wrote really aggressively... I'm sorry if I offended someone, I didn't mean it. 

Well enough of the ranting, here are the winter pictures. 

This is from Russian border, my dad's childhood village. 

Frosty little bastards. 

Abandoned house that my dad bought. 

I'm always shitting my pants driving these roads in the winter. Super slippery. 

Btw all of these pictures are from eastern Finland. 

Joensuu Church in the winter.

 Joensuu is known for its birches!

Snow everywhere man.

More birches. Very finnish.

Pictures from Oslo

 So I went to Oslo, Norway in March 2016 for the first time. We were lucky to get really nice weather! Here's some scenery pictures I took. Really nice city!

 We climbed a quirky looking opera house to see this awesome view. 

This is from the opera house as well. 

We climbed a pile of snow in front of the Royal Palace to see this nice view. The main shopping street was on this same straight street! 

We found a nice little fortress by the harbor, by accident. 

This is from Kampen, a suburb in Oslo with really cute wooden houses everywhere. 

I guess there's lots of hills so you get to see views like this without expecting them. 

Cute little flower shop in Kampen.

Most of my pictures are from Kampen, because it was actually the cutest spot we went to.

Kampen reminded me a little of Denmark actually, but it still has its own little norwegian spice. 

I love all the colours man.

Check out that pink house.

Well that was it. Here are some bonus pictures of Elmeri, my friend's cat. Okay bye.