Touristy Costa Rica with a Dark Side
We stopped by in Costa Rica to make an advertising film for a local hostel in exchange for food and lodging. You can watch the film here: The hostel was in Manuel Antonio which is the second biggest...
View ArticleDocumentary film: Crossing the Darién Gap (2013)
Darién Gap is one of the most difficult areas on earth to travel and it is considered to be extremely dangerous. This documentary film includes rare footage from a speedboat ride from Turbo to...
View ArticleNomads episode 9: Santeri
This is the 9th episode of the mini documentary series we made for the Nelonen Maailma TV channel in 2012. We believe it was never broadcast in the TV. Perhaps there were too many naughty words and...
View ArticleMarimba Master Juan from Masatepe, Nicaragua
Song: Minga Rosa Pineda Marimba Los Juanes de Masatepe Juan Murillo López, Director Dirección: Entrada Nimboja 1c. al Norte, Masatepe, Nicaragua Tel. +505 8660 7600 Amenizamos actos Culturales y...
View ArticlePosters From The Fool´s Paradise
Sustainable growth Solar panels Plastic bags Energy saving light bulbs Plastic ProgressAre we living in the fool´s paradise? Feel free to share!Global Nomads Päivi & Santeri @...
View ArticleWhat do Global Nomads really do?
What Global Nomads really do?Global Nomads Päivi & Santeri @ http://paivisanteri.blogspot.com
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Blogger has failed to fix an annoying bug in the dynamic views templates for six months. About every tenth page view custom CSS fails to load, there is no menu, and the dock is empty. This makes all...
View ArticleHouse-sitting in Managua, Nicaragua
After Colombia and Panama inexpensive Nicaragua was great. Food and accommodation are affordable and the country is not as touristy as the neighbouring Costa Rica. People are friendly and they do not...
View Article6.94 ABSOLUTELY Vital Travel Tips
We all know that travelling without lists is simply impossible. This is not just because many travellers are obsessed with lists. If there was no need for such lists, there would not be any lists,...
View ArticleTravel Bloggers Get Paid For Selling Dreams
We have been working for a hostel to update their website and help to develop their social media marketing. As part of the process, we reviewed their competition and other travel websites. We were...
View ArticleTripadvisor Practise Censorship In Discussion Forum
We had a peculiar incident with Tripadvisor discussion forum. All our discussions regarding Greece were deleted yesterday. Earlier a member calling himself aldro10 had been accusing us of lying because...
View ArticleTop 100 Travel Websites in the World
With this brand new TOP 100 travel website and blog list generator you can make your own hugely popular top list and copy-paste to your website. Our top-secret, sophisticated algorithms make sure that...
View ArticleTwitter and Facebook as Travel Marketing Tools
How to use Twitter as a marketing tool for websites? Let's start with basic vocabulary: tweet is like a text message with 140 character size limit, tweets can contain links and images retweet or RT...
View ArticleWork Exchange in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica
Work exchange has provided us an inexpensive and a fun way to travel and see new places, and it interrupts our usual travel routine for a while. We spent June-July in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica making...
View ArticleDurable Backpacks Are Designed to Break
Our durable, small backpack that had served for a decade got stolen in Spain. It was made in Finland and available only there. We tried a bunch of other small rucksacks that all broke in 2-4 months and...
View ArticleFree as a Global Nomad: Our Own Copies
We finally got to see our newest book called Free as a Global Nomad. The book came out from Drifting Sands Press already in December 2012. We have not had an address earlier where to receive the...
View ArticleSyria, the next Iraq?
A decade ago, the USA invaded Iraq using exactly the same pretext as with Syria now: weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), which proved to be weapons of mass distraction. International media was provoked...
View ArticleUSA Without Car: Travel Information And Tips
We landed in New York, slept the first night in JFK airport, and travelled from east to west and north to south by bus. On the way we were pet-sitting in Cincinnati and Seattle and visited friends in...
View ArticlePelicans Fishing in San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico
Pelican birds fishing and eating fish in Mexico in October, 2013.
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