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Are you looking for a perfect destination to spend your holidays this year? A place where you can see the sun shining, waves washing to the shore, golden sandy beaches that stretch for miles and miles, tropical plants, exotic animals, friendly people and their beautiful cultures? Look no more.
Like many beautiful cities, Venice is visited by millions of tourists every year. I would like to suggest five places that you can visit when you feel like you cannot stand the crowds anymore.
I’ve spent the last five months in Scotland as part of an exchange student program, and it could have well been that my experience of Scotland would’ve been limited to the majestic city of Glasgow…
The phenomenon of exceptional desire to explore is known by the term wanderlust, and this trend of discovering faraway lands and curious cultures has been strikingly visible in the western world for years.
I’ve said the words “no, Finland doesn’t have polar bears” about a dozen hundred times and friends’ birthday parties were actually massive barbeques. We took a car to a school located 300 metres away and our burglar alarm went off almost weekly. I’m a third culture kid, nice to meet you.
Vietnam, June 2015 - The walk from the street-seller to the hotel took only ten minutes. Or it would have. Walk straight ahead and turn left, you can’t get lost, I had told myself. Sometimes I undermine my lack of sense of direction.
Istanbul is the city for lovers of culture, beautiful architecture, ottoman art, and gorgeous nature, and I wanted to share the summery fabulosity that I encountered on this, my second, visit to the largest city in Turkey.
Editor in Chief Kaisa Leino gives an in-depth account of what to do, see and eat in Helsinki this autumn!
