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Steam and Sulphur in Tbilisi on The Strangest First Date I Ever Had
November 13, 2019November 28, 2019 wayfarover

Steam and Sulphur in Tbilisi on The Strangest First Date I Ever Had

Europe, Georgia, relationships, stories

What do you get when you combine important historical hot springs and Tinder?

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Why Dating as a Travelling Girl Sucks
February 24, 2019February 24, 2019 wayfarover

Why Dating as a Travelling Girl Sucks

relationships, thoughts

I stepped out of the train on an unfamiliar platform. The sun was setting behind a cluster of industrial buildings crouched behind the wired fence

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HER
October 30, 2018October 23, 2018 wayfarover

HER

Croatia, Europe, relationships, stories

In another land, in another time, a man I met told me about his homeland. He had been away for a few years, and when

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Sunday postcard from… Budapest, Hungary
July 1, 2018June 27, 2018 wayfarover

Sunday postcard from… Budapest, Hungary

Europe, Hungary, postcards, relationships, stories

Hi, Lucky.

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Sunday postcard from… Prague, the Czech Republic
April 1, 2018March 23, 2018 wayfarover

Sunday postcard from… Prague, the Czech Republic

Czech Republic, Europe, postcards, relationships

Dear ghost.

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habitual expat • llama enthusiast • unprofessional cheesecake chaser

If you see a redhead backpacker with a beat-up Olympus holding the map upside down, that’s probably me. To my mum’s utmost horror, I’ve been on and off the road since 2012 and can’t seem to stop. I’m Finnish and always searching for the perfect lipstick as well as a place to call home.
wayfarover is a blog dedicated to narratives about places foreign and familiar, doomed holiday romances, ethical globetrotting and off the beaten path solo adventures.

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Instagram post 2191647087065019979_1495277180 HOSTEL LIFE.
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I've been volunteering in a hostel for the past month and sometimes I've wondered what the hell I'm doing. I am 26 years old with a Masters Degree, why am I giving away my precious time to some backpacker hostel? Am I not too old for this?
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Like many things I've tried travelling - hitchhiking, couchsurfing - I started doing them to save money, and continued because I genuinely enjoyed them. And while I can't do hostel life full-time, for a few weeks it's been amazing.
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It's been such a great mix of people. Our ages vary by ten years. We are at different points in our lives. We have a mixture of devout Christians, atheists, agnostics, Jewish and Mormons - and somehow we make it work beautifully.
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If I walk in the volunteer room in the middle of the day, someone is probably always sleeping; but if I open the door at 2am, the girls are probably up, talking about love, life and God. (And most likely someone is not wearing trousers.)
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 Frauke writes us poems and Hannah draws us into Christmas tree ornaments. Jorin promised to teach me swing dancing and he never did but I'm kind of relieved since Sam said he would definitely flip me and I can't even stay on my feet on normal conditions (my knees are still skinned from a bike trip with Beatriz.) When Ingrid came a few days ago, Meredith and I were fangirling over her in the bathroom, giggling and talking through our toothbrushes.
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Now it's my last night in Jerusalem and I'm slightly in denial about leaving because I've genuinely grown to care about this amazing bunch of people.
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Maybe I am too old to dye my hair blue and write poetry on the backs of napkins. But my life has never followed any conventional paths. Maybe I'm not quite where I wanted to be at this point of my life, maybe I never get there, but isn't that a small sacrifice for the freedom to do things that you love?
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What's new with ya'll this week?
Instagram post 2189488128119947966_1495277180 BODY IMAGE.
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I went to the Dead Sea a few weeks ago. It had been on my bucket list for well over ten years and I had a BLAST - but when I flicked through the photos later, I hated what I saw.
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I could have appeared two sizes thinner if I had sucked in my stomach. I could have twisted myself in better angles. I forgot to; I was having so much fun lathering myself in the Dead Sea mud and feeling entirely ridiculous. This ended up being the only photo I liked. Now I look at all the others and wish I looked better in them, and that's so fucked up because the photos are showing me being the happiest I had been all week.
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I love my body. I love my body when I'm getting a new tattoo and I get to decorate it to look a little more mine. I love my body when I pull off my hiking boots after an exhausting day of walking. I love my body when I'm cuddled up to somebody, their arms around me, and I can run my fingers on their back in that particular way that I know gives them chills.
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I love my body so much for the things it can do, things it is capable of, so why do I let myself hate the way it looks? I love the parts I put on, the curled bangs and winged eyeliner and red lipstick, my favourite denim jacket, the necklace my mum wouldn't like. Why do I waste time disliking the parts I can't change? And if I did change them, would that solve the issue? Wouldn't I then just direct this senseless disgust at some other poor body part?
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I think it's very sobering to realise how much I care about the way I look. Working through feelings of vanity and shallowness when you thought you were above it... but I guess these are those intrusive thoughts that we all think sometimes.
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#deadsea #visitisrael #israel_best #traveldeeper #femaletravelbloggers #travelinspiration #girlpowertravel #gltlove #seikkailijattaret #mytraveldiary #escapeandwonder #womenwhotravel #openmyworld #femmetravel #globelletravel #radgirlslife #adventuregirl #liveyouradventure #travelinladies #travelwithme #herwanderfullife #darlingescapes #shetravels
Instagram post 2186582059555015324_1495277180 POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE.
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"At one point we were kissing, and he said, ‘This would be a great shot of you.’ He told me that when he was in India he looked at the Himalayas and said, ‘Great shot!’ And he was there. It’s like we don’t know we’re there anymore. We’re so detached from our own experience, and so into how we can use that experience. As we’re having it, we’re putting it into another medium. Life is the largest medium we’ve got, and we want to put it in these smaller ones, to get it down to scale."
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Today all I have is this excerpt from Carrie Fisher's excellent novel Postcards From the Edge. Fisher's semi-autobiographical novel came out in 1987 but isn't this so true especially today with Instagram and all the other social medias?
Who knew Princess Leia was such a great writer.
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#armeniaofficial #discoverarmenia
#luvarmenia #yerevan #visityerevan #mondolöytö #femaletravelbloggers #teamkaptainkenny #wekeepmoments #travelinspiration #traveldeeper #stayandwander #liveyouradventure #map_of_europe #theprettycities #visualwanderlust #keeptraveling #thediscoverer #backpackwithme #welltravelled #wondermore #escapesnaps
Instagram post 2184360867129657667_1495277180 ABYANEH VILLAGE.
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The taxi glid quietly along the road, our driver mute in front of the language barrier and the Russian couple on the backseat focused on their phones. They had been half an hour late for the pick-up, and I could tell the driver was annoyed. I was annoyed. I had a feeling that the two hours I'd been promised in the village would be drastically cut.
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As soon as we slowed to a stop, I jumped out and waved bye to my companions. A few other tourists were already wandering around the streets. I walked past a few older women and a couple dressed all in yellow.
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The day before I had been feeling blue, very lonely in my aloneness, but I left my heartache behind with the streets of the town and found the path hidden behind the houses. Leafy trees bowed down above me, asphalt turned to gravel and ground. Emerging from the forest, I made my way uphill past houses dug into the hill. Were they abandoned or their masters simply gone for a day of herding sheep? I took care not to tread in anyone's front yard.
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And up there, by the ruins of an old caravanserai, the view over Abyaneh opened before me. The emblematic red houses of the 2,000-year-old village seemed to melt into the red mountains behind them. Up there, it was just me and the gentle wind, and again I found gratefulness in my aloneness.
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From here, travellers of past would have viewed the same picture, unchanged except maybe for some snow on the mountains. I sat there and marvelled at the town resistant to time and change.
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Still got a few photos and stories to share from Iran! What are you up to this week?
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#topiranpictures #irantraveling #show_the_real_iran #instaesfahan #abyaneh #solofemaletravel #teamkaptainkenny #sheisnotlost #travelinspiration #mytraveldiary #wekeepmoments #passionpassport #femaletravelbloggers #followmeto #girlpowertravel #seikkailijattaret #sidewalkerdaily #herwanderfullife #escapesnaps #thediscoverer #thetravelwomen #postcardplaces #visitiran #wanderlove #journeysofgirls #openmyworld #offthebeatenpath
Instagram post 2182884638828368554_1495277180 HAVE YOUR LIKES DISAPPEARED YET?
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So they did finally roll out this new feature everywhere. The public number of likes on my photos has been gone for about a week now, and I really, really hate to admit... it makes a difference.
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I thought I really didn't care about Instagram all that much. I thought I was immune to it. But now that I'm the only one who can see how many likes certain pics have got, it feels like a relief. I've had quite a few low-performing photos lately, and with the likes hidden, there is no embarrassment in low engagement. There shouldn't be anyway but hey, we're only human.
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I think hiding likes is going to get us to relax.  People will probably start publishing content that they like, not just stuff that's gonna get them the most likes. Instagram is still a shallow media, but maybe this change will take some pressure off of us users.
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Have your likes disappeared yet? What do you think of the change?
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#armeniaofficial #discoverarmenia
#igersarmenia #luvarmenia #travelinspiration #letsflyawayto #destinationdiscoveries #wheretofindme #backpackwithme #wildernessculture #visualwanderlust #stayandwander #travelstroke #culturetrip #escapesnaps #escapeandwonder #mondolöytö #mytinyatlas #exploreeverywhere #allaboutadventure #traveltagged
Instagram post 2181462636913502511_1495277180 SAFETY AS A SOLO FEMALE TRAVELLER.
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I was just writing a blog post about travelling as a solo female in Iran when I realised something I should've probably always thought of: when people talk about safety as a female traveller specifically, they are basically talking about threats that men pose for their safety.
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That's it. That's the whole post today.
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Have you felt unsafe somewhere as a (solo) female traveller?
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#irantraveling #tourism_iran #femaletravelbloggers #travelinspiration #solofemaletravel #femmetravel #seikkailijattaret #gltlove #globelletravel #travelinladies #dametravels #darlingescapes #citizenfemme #girlsabroad #wheretofindme #wanderingwomen #roamtheplanet #mytinyatlas #exploreeverywhere
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