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• Hunt of the Trollfjord

  

  Send to KindleMountains of Bleik, 5 km south of AndenesRight south of Andenes (on Andoya’s north end), the jagged crests of the Bleik mountains sticking their... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Towards Lofoten, a Memory of the Last Eldar

  

  A windy day in Senja islandAfter ten days riding along Norway and writing this log, I’ve already exhausted my limited vocabulary of adjectives, having though... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Of Vanity, Phonetics and Arctic Paradises

  

  Mud flats in Balsfjord, south of TromsoAmong all of Norway’s regions, brimming with surprising and magnificent nature, perhaps Lofoten archipelago provides the... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Tromsø, Undisputable Arctic Capital

  

  Panoramic view of TromsoLocated on Tromsoya island and connected to the mainland by a bridge and the Tromsoysund tunnel, Tromso is the second largest city... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Bikers’ Avatars Along Troms’ Enchanting Seaboard

  

  Almost three hundred kilometres on my motorcycle from Alta to Tromso make for –by far– the longest stage during the past eighty days journeying to Nowhere; and... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Olderfjord, Gate to Cape North

  

  Porsanger is the westernmost and best known of Finnmark’s big peninsulas, as it harbours the very famous Nordkapp (Cape North), allegedly the northernmost tip o... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Borselv, a Campsite on the Taiga

  

  It’s a cold grey August morning in Finnmark when I pack my things that lay spread out in my room at Nordkyn hotel, go to the backyard and load the luggage on... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Kjollefjord, a Town Gazing at the Western Sea

  

  Kjollefjord facing westOften considered the most beautiful cruise trip in the world, Hurtigruten is a passanger line linking, on a daily basis, thirty four port... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Summertime Lethargy of Slettnes Fyr

  

  On Norway’s northeast end, where East and West silently meet, present day Finnmark county –the largest and less populated– was for centuries land of the sami,... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Tundra and the Heart of Finnmark

  

  The rover who roams towards Nowhere does not want to retrace his steps nor tread twice the same path. If his unknown destination–who knos if nonexistent–was... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Vadso, a Stunning View to the Arctic

  

  When the famous explorer of tragic death Roald Amundsen, first to reach the South Pole during his epic Antarctic expedition in 1912, headed for the opposite... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• +25 Reasons to Not Buy a Windows Phone. A WP8 Bugs Review.

  

  This is a difficult article because the list of issues and flaws of Windows Phone is close to inexahustible. At the beginning, some months ago, my intention... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Sevettijärvi, Where the Wind Turns Round.

  

  But Inari has by no means been just indulging myself in longings and self-pity. Actually, as to coincidences and new contacts, it has turned out one of the... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Inari, Tale of a Trip and a Return (message in a Bottle)

  

  Definitely everyone wakes up earlier than me! I get out of bed and see that many campers are already gone, those still here being finishing preparatinons for... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Booking.com Hands Over Your Privacy to Facebook

  Today, all my alarms about internet privacy (or rather lack thereof) rang out loud.I was checking my Facebook wall when I came across one of those ads we’re... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Sodankylä, Gate to the Great North

  

  Whichever the route a traveler takes for getting into the heart of Lapland, most likely he’ll go by Sodankylä, where all the roads meet for then forking again. Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Eventually Getting to Nowhere

  

  .Slow but steady, my boreal route goes on; but for the past few days, despite being so close in time, I’m mixing up in my head some towns and landscapes, some... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ristijärvi and Artemiev’s Boreal Epopee

  

  Subarctic twilightIt is no accident that for the past two days an unforgettable music by Artemiev rings at all hours within my head: it’s the soundtrack of... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Rautalampi’s Ghastly Fog

  

  .It’s been decades since I’m bothering my friends with the preach that, in a clever society, some rudiments of thermodynamics should be taught in mandatory... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Aphorisms

  Moral authorityIf all the members of a society were strictly honest, one couldn’t think of havng moral legitimation unless being equally honest as the rest.... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2014 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL