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Netherlands

Scheveningen – A Winter Beach Retreat in The Hague

It was Christmas day of 2024. We were done with a very good week in Norway and were in Amsterdam for the last leg of our Dec ’24 trip. But the crowd of the so called Sin City had gotten to us, and we were craving for some silent solitude. I’ve never been the kind […]

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Norway

Queen of the North – Aurora Borealis

Wild and free It was quite a moment when we stepped out of the airport limits, into Tromso. At half past 10 in the morning, it was seemingly dark and temperatures as low as -12 degrees celsius (feels like -14). We had been in Norway for a while already, a land where the sun barely […]

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Kazakhstan

The masterpiece that is – Altyn Emel National Park

I’ll show you a placeHigh on the desert plain, yeahWhere the streets have no name, oh, oh “Where the streets have no name” – this song by U2 came to mind as soon we were within Altyn Emel National Park limits. A paradise for nature lovers, adventure junkies and geologists. The Route There are two […]