My first visit to Poland in 2025 marked a return to a familiar and valued travel base: Warsaw. Throughout the previous year, this city served as a fantastic hub for my European travels, acting as a launchpad for flights to places as far as Bergamo and Rome, as well as for train journeys within Poland…
My journey to Łódź began early one morning after I purchased my ticket at Warszawa Centralna, the main station in the Polish capital. The train ride was comfortable and offered a nice opportunity to see the countryside as it passed by the window. I arrived at the impressive and modern Łódź Fabryczna station, which is…
My second day trip from Warsaw took me east, to the city of Białystok. I boarded another early morning train from Warszawa Centralna, ready for a new adventure in a different part of the country. Białystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and is well known for its green spaces and proximity to nature….
For my final day trip from Warsaw, I chose the smaller town of Żyrardów. This destination was much closer to the capital, which meant a shorter train ride and a more relaxed schedule. I took a slightly later train, which gave me a calm and easy start to the day after the longer journeys of…
Just a year after our last visit, Susann and I returned for another summer weekend in Kaunas. In the summer of 2024, we had explored Lithuania’s second-largest city with Little A, but this time it was an adventure just for the two of us while she spent the weekend with her grandparents. It felt both…
The summer of 2024 was truly a season of adventure for us. Just a few weeks after visiting Tallinn, it was time to return to the Baltic States. We had already completed our Arctic Tour and my solo trip to Poland. Now, the calendar was set for a final summer weekend in Kaunas, the second-largest…
The summer of 2024 was already packed with plans. We had just returned from an extensive Arctic Tour to Nordkapp with Susann’s parents, and the calendar was filling up fast. Susann and Little A were preparing to visit the Åland Islands, while I was planning a solo trip to Poland. Additionally, we had a family…
The summer of 2024 developed into a season of extensive travel for our family. We had already completed a long Arctic Tour to Nordkapp in June and enjoyed a weekend getaway to Tallinn earlier in July. However, the travel season was not quite over. Before our final upcoming trip to Kaunas at the end of…
Our Arctic adventure in the Nordics was about to come to an end. We had seen some amazing places in Finland, Norway, and Sweden over the past two weeks. We had stood at the border tripoint between the three countries at Treriksröset. The number of places we had seen was more than we had anticipated…
Arriving in Villähde outside of Lahti the night before, we knew we were going to have one full day to enjoy the city. This would be our last full day in mainland Finland before it was time to continue towards the harbor in Naantali and back to the Åland Islands. It was going to be…
We had reached Siilinjärvi, just north of Kuopio, and it felt like we had properly left the far north of the Nordics. The Arctic was now far behind us, and the sunshine and summer heat were about to welcome us to the south of Finland. We had set our target on the city of Lahti,…
After a night in Kemijärvi, it was time to leave Finnish Lapland and continue even further south. It was going to be a day with a very long drive, a drive that quite soon took us past the Arctic Circle and further down towards Kuusamo and later Kajaani. But it was not going to be…