When we get out of the train in the Kemijärvi station we are overwhelmed by the warmth of the local hearts - we are welcomed by accordion music, bonfires and Santa-clause himself, who by the look of it works here
The journey from Riga to Tallinn goes on with a somewhat dramatically-romantic feeling as we watch Forest Gump on the TV screen in the bus. It was one of my favorite movies while growing up. I often pushed the overplayed
The idea is to follow a 750 km long stretch of the Polar Circle from the border of Russia and Finland to the banks of the Norwegian Sea across Finland, Sweden and Norway. The participants of this adventure will walk
So boys and girls, we have another story for you now. The last day of the “Pedal for no Medal” adventure. The date was February 7, time was 8:15, the temperature was -1 degrees and the four bikes got on
Who knows how Russians get up in the morning, but for us the 8 o’clock wake up call came like a cold shower in a dark cave. The contrast of which with the warm and sunny days was just mind
An hour before the planned wake-up call someone was knocking on our door disturbing the peace and snoring. Behind the door, there was the smiling face of some Estonian guy with a photo camera in his hand. After only three
We left Fedosiya at the break of day at 8:15 and headed into the unknown - the border with Russian Federation. No one knew, how long we will have to wait in line, how many papers we’ll have to sign
After 13 days of constant freezing and trembling this morning came like a spring in February. The sun was generously pouring warmth over the mountains of Crimea and soon the temperature raised above the zero point, lifting our spirits and
Because of new information regarding closed roads we had to change our initial plan, which was to go straight from Krasnoperekops’k to Simferopol. Despite the extra 32 kilometers we decided to reroute through Dzhankoi thus eliminating the possibility of getting
Some of us were restless and others got the time wrong, so our camp started to bustle an hour earlier than planned. When we woke up the last sleeping beauty Karlis B. and offered him the morning porridge, Karlis didn’t