I am alive. Fresh start after a three month break (honestly I am not sure if I have ever before been three months without a single blog update, and I have had this blog since 2008… this was a personal record). What did I do when I returned home from the road trip in mid-November? [...]

It is quite a surreal feeling waking up in your own bed, without car keys on your bedside table, and not having to drive anywhere today. In a way it feels like I never even left Finland, yet in the back of my head I have all these memories from places I’ve been to in [...]

I’ve just spent 50 hours in Hamburg and 28 of them together with a local petrolhead – best city guide I’ve ever had. Not only did I get tours around the city in a Morgan Plus 8 and an Aston Martin V12 Vantage (yes, really…), but I also got the complete petrolhead treatment – McLaren [...]

First driving heaven dream come true on this trip – well, after Nürburgring, but I didn’t actually drive on the track so can’t count that in – was Grimsel Pass and right after it, Furka & Oberalp Pass. I don’t think many people would write about the world’s best driving roads without including them – [...]

One of the coolest experiences on this trip has absolutely been my four nights on a sailing boat in La Maddalena, Sardinia. When I earlier looked for accommodation on Sardinia I got disappointed when I wasn’t able to find boat accommodation (or at least not budget friendly boat accommodation, luxury yachts are easy to find). [...]

My first destination in Switzerland was Meiringen, a town in a valley surrounded by mountains – absolutely stunning location. Stayed with 3 guys there – I first booked only one night because Grimsel Pass is very close to Meiringen and that was my grand plan for Switzerland, but because of bad weather I ended up [...]

My last stop in France before going over the border to Switzerland was Mulhouse. Not because of the city itself, but because of the Cité de l’Automobile car museum – Schlumpf Collection. There is such an overwhelming amount of cars there. Although the really vintage cars are interesting to look at, I personally prefer when [...]

I was going to publish these photos in the post about Château d’Alteville but have to do two posts, because I didn’t realize I had that many photos. During my four night stay in Alteville, Lorraine I also walked around Tarquimpol and to Domaine de Lindre to take some photos. The walking paths are extremely [...]

My mum asked me today why I haven’t updated the blog. I told her I have like 15 drafts waiting to be published but so many photos (and videos) and everything and there’s not enough free time after driving, eating, exploring and sleeping. But I’ll need to do something about it, so many nearly finished [...]

This evening I arrived to La Bresse in the Vosges mountain valleys – still in Lorraine, although I went to the Alsace side today to check out the rallies. Driving today has been a nightmare – short story about that here. First I did a little hill climbing to Forêt d’ Abreschviller and if you [...]

Today I pampered myself with food. During this journey I’m learning to deal with that “going to a restaurant alone” thing. Yesterday when I booked a table for tonight to La Cave a Champagne here in Èpernay the waitress said “for two?” “no, for one”. It’s not embarrasing – I know, like I told some [...]

I had one free day in Paris without any motorshow activities and used that wisely – I walked around for almost 7 hours. Took the metro from Vanves where I stayed (nice area) to Louvre and then walked, walked, walked… The funny thing was that I didn’t take a single photo of the city. And [...]

I asked a friend on Facebook where I should drive – 3 days time and nearly 700 km to drive from Hörstel, Germany to Paris. 2 stops along the way and I could get away with driving around 250 km per day. Plans changed – because he said go to Nürburgring. I actually had thought [...]

On Saturday I had to decide where to drive from Lübeck and decided to go for National Park Schleswig-Holstein Wattenmeer. However without internet connection and with a Nokia Lumia 900 that erased ALL the maps I had downloaded for offline mode (we don’t talk about it, I was so pissed off – plus it’s not [...]

Currently I am sitting on Finnlines Europalink on my way to Travemünde from Helsinki. The ship departed from Helsinki yesterday 5.30 pm and I will arrive to Travemünde this evening, so total travel time 27 hours. When I first started to plan a road trip I originally wanted to start in August already and continue [...]