English first. Svenska längre ner. It took me about 32 hours from the Keleti station in Budapest to check in […]
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Prologue – From Here to There: the necessity of context
— English above. På svenska längre ner. — Think Marco Polo. Every story about the Silk Road seems to include […]
From Tehran to Baku – more than your average bus trip.
Monday 5 am. The bus had stopped on a back street. I had just checked my gps and realized that […]
Tehran – A Love Affair
I recently wrote a piece (soon to be published) for an online magazine about my last trip to Iran. In […]
The reconstruction of Tabriz
The train station in Tabriz, Iran. The time is 5,20 pm on a Sunday and I´m waiting to get on […]
Tourist in Afghanistan – part 2
It´s Friday. The sun is shining from a blue sky, as it has done every day but one on this whole […]
Tourist in Afghanistan – part 1
Have you decided where you´ll be going on your next vacation? Interested in a country with a lot of sun, […]
The Karakoram Highway part 2 (of 2)
I can proudly announce that I have now travelled the entire length of The Karakoram Highway or the KKH. And […]
The Karakoram Highway – part 1 (of 2)
The main goal of this trip is heading down the Karakoram Highway in Pakistan. Extending the overland travel by starting […]
Getting thru the Torugart pass – a day of check points and patience
When planning our trip down the KKH in Pakistan (more about that later on) we realized we wanted to make […]
Busy going nowhere 