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Finn-Savotta Challenge: The First Year on the Road with Our New Savotta...
We have travelled now one year with Finn-Savotta backpacks in 15 countries in Europe, the USA, Central America, and Asia. The backpacks are still in mint condition after exhausting 11 flights, 5 bus...
View ArticleJapanese Anarchy in Tokyo and Kyoto
We spent the summer in Tokyo in a local community of young salary men and women who were fed up with Japan's traditions, norms, and rules. They had chosen to live in a shared house, which is not a...
View ArticleCold War in South Korea
We arrived in South Korea just before tensions grew in the border of North Korea. Both sides fired at each other some 60 kilometres from the capital, Seoul. North Korea presented an ultimatum: if South...
View ArticleOf Wedding Anniversaries: Goldfish-Ficus-Pineapple
Today is our 11th wedding anniversary. To commemorate it we named it Goldfish-Ficus-Pineapple using the same logic as in some of our previous wedding anniversaries: 2014 Monkey-Palmtree-Peasoup in...
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Mobile-Friendly Non-Flash Picasa Photo Slideshow
The death of Flash has left Picasa users stranded as Flash is the only official way Google is offering for embedding slideshows into blogs and websites. Flash is not mobile-friendly, and many users...
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Taiwan — China without Culture Shock
When we arrived in Taiwan, the news were all about the relationship between Taiwan and China. Locals were speculating whether the big brother would invade, and Taiwan strengthened its coast guard. We...
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Sri Lanka — A Visit to the Tourism’s Past
We were expecting another India when landing in Sri Lanka, but were pleasantly surprised. There is less harassment of women, and sellers and tuk-tuk drivers leave you alone if you say No thank you or,...
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New Book: Global Nomads and Extreme Mobilities (Ashgate/Routledge)
Päivi’s latest book recaps the work on global nomads and location-independence she started in 2010 by interviewing 30 full-time travellers. The book is a re-assessment of much contemporary research in...
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Extreme Mobilities: Challenging the concept of ‘travel’
Päivi’s new journal article “Extreme mobilities: Challenging the concept of ‘travel’” will be published in Annals of Tourism Research in March 2016 (volume 57, pages 220–233). The article explores...
View ArticleDocumentary film: Crossing the Darién Gap (2013, 2016)
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 footage from a speedboat ride from Turbo to Capurganá,...
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The Best Laptop For Travel And Work On The Road
We have spent the last 11+ years as digital nomads travelling perpetually with laptops writing books, creating websites, and making films. This article summarises the lessons we have learned for...
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Securing Windows 7 against Microsoft and Other Threats
This article helps you to protect your Windows 7 against security threats, privacy violations, and malware. These instructions are crucial for digital nomads who are often travelling and working...
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Review: Dell Vostro 14 5000 Series Laptop
We got fed up with breaking keyboards and bought Dell Vostro 14 5459 laptop. After reading customer feedback, we decided not to mail order or rely on Dell support and customer service, but to buy the...
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Some 3711 Tweets and 1023 Days Later
In 2013, we wrote about using Twitter for marketing. After sending 3711 tweets during 1023 days I can confidently confirm: Twitter works perfectly for nothing. Using Twitter for business and...
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SanteriX 64bit v 1.0 Operating System
Ever since we left Finland in 2004 to travel the world, Santeri has secretly continued developing one of his former company's (SOT Finnish Software Engineering Ltd.) most closely guarded, secret...
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Installing Windows 7 on Dell Vostro 14 5000 Series Laptop
Installing Windows 7 was not a piece of cake as Microsoft is pushing desperately Windows 10. Detailed installation instructions with driver download links follow this walkthrough. The first obstacle...
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Visiting Finland in 2016
Other than visiting family and friends in Finland, we did PR for our newest book The Super-Rich and The Poor. Päivi got her newest journal article published, and we recorded a copyright free 10 episode...
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Our 12th wedding anniversary
We celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary in Moscow, Russia.Today was a beautiful, sunny October day and we made a long walk in the outskirts of the capital and cooked good food. Here is our...
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Being Vegan in Russia
The previous time we visited Russia was in 2006, when we were still omnivores. Having been vegans since 2010, we were a bit skeptical of what the Russian kitchen could offer us now when mettwurst,...
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