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Travel TV Episode 1: Genuine Traveller

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Travel TV Episode 2: Wonderful Place

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Tibetan Folk Music

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India by Train

We started our journey through India from medieval feeling Kolkata watching beggars and bare-feet men draw rickshaws, and we smelled the stench of urine and learned to dodge numerous human droppings on...

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Luxury Holiday in United Arab Emirates

We were flying from Jaipur, India to Istanbul, Turkey and the airlines cancelled our connecting flight so that we ended up staying in Sharjah for 36 hours instead of the original 6 hours. At first we...

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Meeting Nomads in Istanbul, Turkey

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Finland Revisited

We visited Finland for the first time in six years. It was a short combined business and tourist trip. Our publisher Atena Kustannus invited us over for the book launch of Päivi’s newest book Elämäni...

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Visiting friends in Tallinn, Estonia

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Breaking Things In East Europe

Our travel through East European countries—Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary—towards the South were filled with havoc and horror. Some of the things Santeri accidentally broke were minor...

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Our Q3 Newsletter Is Out

From Finland to the Balkans (Q3/2012)Global Nomads Päivi & Santeri @ http://paivisanteri.blogspot.com

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Touring the Balkans

We had not visited any of the Balkan countries before and we experienced a really nice surprise. People were friendly and honest, and they seemed genuinely pleased to see foreigners around. The Balkans...

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Our Camel-Date-Sand Wedding Anniversary (8th)

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New Book: Free as a Global Nomad

Drifting Sands Press has today published our first English language book, and also the first ever general interest non-fiction book about Global Nomads. For this book, we had the pleasure of...

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Zagora, Sahara on the Moroccon Side

We stayed a couple of months in a Saharan oasis called Zagora. The place was beautiful, peaceful, and hassle-free, and there were an abundance of inexpensive dates, couscous, and awesome fresh...

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Jamaica Helps With Excess Luggage

Have you noticed how hard it is to get rid of the stuff you don't need any more but which is too valuable just to give away? If you are tired of carrying it around, go to Jamaica. Friendly and happy...

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A Bit Pricey Trinidad and Tobago

We arrived in Port of Spain at the end of the carnival. There were still some cooldown happenings going on, mainly soca parties on the beaches, but the city itself was already suffering from hangover...

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Crossing Venezuela by Bus

Venezuela was inexpensive and easy for travel, although not always very comfortable. They have the same kind of cramped double-decker buses than in Argentina that mainly go by night so you will have to...

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Hiking and Filming in Colombia

We went to Colombia to meet our friends Bill and Betty whom we got to know when we were all living in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2005—2006. We met Bill and Betty last time in Cambodia in 2006, and it...

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Getting from Colombia to Panama and Away

When we arrived in Puerto Obaldía in Panama, we had a most thorough customs check just like years ago in Peru. An obese female officer had to stick her dirty hands to all of our stuff including food,...

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Travel Plan 2013–2014

We have often received complaints because we have not planned our travels in advance. Understanding how stressful surprise visits and last minute changes are, we have decided to make this up by...

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