On the border of Brazil and Paraguay lies a town named Guaíra — a small yet modern town with restaurants, bars and all the usual commodities that differentiate urban from rural. In short, this place is nowhere near the jungle,…
In 2011, we did a great TV series for the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle on Strangerless travel and couchsurfing. It’s called Sohvasurffaajat and it’s about… surprise, surpise: getting to know cultures through people!! The series is in Finnish, but the first…
Cauê is a man who studies and teaches the history of Latin America at UNILA (Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana) in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. He calls himself a latinoamericanista, so I asked him to tell a bit more about what this means. Although…
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Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a professional golfer in Latin America? No?!! Well, neither had I before I met Alan Wagner! As a matter of fact, I’d never thought about how it’s like to be a pro…
I’m quite sure this won’t be the end of articles written about my long-distance cycling trip in local newspapers, but most probably this will be the one and only article written about it in a Brazilian newspaper, Portal Palotina! And…
Me and blogger Jens Lüdecke from Overlandtour met on Viking Grace (cruise ship going from Stockholm-Turku) this summer, as I was on my way home from TBEX (Travel Blogger Exchange) and Jens on a blogger trip to visit the Finnish archipelago.…
Ayllón is a village which lies 140kms North of Madrid. Situated in the province of Segovia, this place is known for its nature and historic buildings, which include churches, monuments and palaces. What’s less known is the history behind the name of the village. That’s…
