A Pagani tour had been a dream of mine since the first time I visited Italy, in May 2012. I managed to visit several other places back then – like Lamborghini – but because of the earthquake I had to leave Pagani until next time. I did not have to wait that long before my [...]

After 10 weeks in Italy I am a few steps closer of knowing what makes me happy in life. You learn something from everything you experience, right? Happiness for me is not luxury hotels, fancy restaurants, or expensive cars. Also my place is not in the passenger seat, unless it is something like around Nürburgring [...]

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 [...]

After my sailing adventure in La Maddalena I took a much needed timeout. I had a voucher to spend at the accommodation booking website Wimdu.com so I did a search for Sardinia, found an apartment in a town called Dorgali that I booked, and changed my ferry booking from Olbia to Livorno thanks to Direct [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tomorrow I’ve been traveling for two weeks – that feels unreal, because time just flies by and it absolutely doesn’t feel like I’ve been on the road for two weeks. I’ve seen some incredible places during this journey and I’m going to see so many more great places, but yesterday when I arrived to Chateau [...]

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 [...]

To get the best experience in Emilia-Romagna, you need a car. Because some of the prettiest landscapes are “in the middle of nowhere” and although you do get to small towns by bus as well, you’ll see so much more if you have that car and can drive on those curvy roads and stop whenever [...]

A lot of the photos I post to Twitter never end up here in the blog, but now I have to dedicate one post to some snapshots from this summer. Today I happened to get to the beach with the dog just in time for the sunset and once again, it blew me away. The [...]

When we had our tour in the Lamborghini museum (showroom) and factory, my journey was planned to continue to the Ferruccio Lamborghini Museum near Ferrara. Apparently when there were some discussions about how to get there by bus, Fabio Lamborghini offered to come and pick me up from Sant’ Agata Bolognese. With the two other [...]

I already tweeted this but want to mention it here too. Found this in a Facebook group and the story made me both happy and sad (the mention “end stages of COPD” obviously made me cry over a stranger and thinking about how unpredictable life can be – that’s how good I am at dealing [...]