Lady Aurora shows the best of herself. She dances in the sky dressed up in beautiful green colors, sometimes she even puts her red and purple lipstick on. A selection of the photos I took from the Northern Lights in Norway, Sweden and Finland over … Continue readingLady Aurora
In the end of November I was slowly travelling up north, to the #Arctic, for another winter working as a guide for Harriniva Hotels & Safaris in Muonio Finland. Since it was a bit of a last minute decision there wasn’t so much time to … Continue readingAnother winter workinig in Finnish Lapland
I decided to update my blog with some updates that I have posted on social media about my second winter in Lapland. 16/11 I am back in Lapland after couchsurfing at a friends´ new place in the south of Finland where I arrived with the … Continue readingChronicles from a second winter in Lapland
Scandinavia is attractive to me. A month and a half after I got back from my first 10 months I headed off north again, this time with my backpack and by hitchhiking. Most of my travels are solo but that doesn’t mean traveling alone. First … Continue readingHitchhiking to the midnight sun
My trip through Scandinavia and some parts of the Baltic countries has been great mainly because of the nature but I also had a good time in some (big) cities. Oslo, Norway I wasn’t so much attracted to the city centre, maybe because I was … Continue readingCity life in Scandinavia and the Baltics
Although the Norweigan landscapes don’t require many words, the images speak for themselves, I still want to share a couple of things. Norway wasn’t really in my plan (as far as I had a plan), but Nordkap came quickly on the radar since it s … Continue readingNorway
What started off as a bicycle trip in summer quickly turned into autumn as the seasons have a different rhythm in the north. When I learned more about the culture of the indigenous people of Lapland – the Sami – I was intrigued by how … Continue readingSummer and winter in Lapland
Two weeks back in Belgium so I could take some time to go through photos, organise and edit them. Here is a couple of series with some written thoughts. A weekend out</strong> with my colleague and friend Kim and his family on the <strong>Haparanda archipelago … Continue readingPost Lappish winter memories
Some thoughts from the time I passed riding my aluminium horse through Pippi’s land. If Greta Thunberg is saying that our house is on fire you should know that this metaphor isn’t so far from the reality, and not only in Sweden. Last summer there … Continue readingSome thoughts from on the aluminium horse while riding Pippi’s land
<p>Taika-aika , the local circus school in Rovaniemi Finland , celebrated it’s 15th anniversary in the summer of 2018. I visited the school during my bicycle travel through Scandinavia this summer and met a bunch of motivated friendly circus people who offered me the hospitality … Continue reading15 years of circus school in Rovaniemi (Finland)