Internet corner

Here we are again. Been travelin back and forth now for a while, at least it feels like that. I havent really counted the miles or kilometres Ive been traveling this past month, but its a lot I can assure you. From Thailand to vancouver, from vancouver to vegas and los angeles. From los angeles to peru and in peru i did some ridiculous travelling with the bus. 16 hours and 21 hours, like it was nothing. And it didnt stop there, from peru back to los angeles and from La back to thailand again. Oh man, if you could get some reward for long time traveling I would be the one collecting it.

But Ive came to realize something when i stepped out the airplane in phuket and that is that I wont be traveling now for a LOOONG time, except in thailand of course but that doesnt count. Two weeks alone in thailand may sound for some people booring and a waste of time. But let me tell you something, I havent had any alone time in almost 3 months now so it feels more than good just to relax and to not have anything scheduled except eating and sleeping.

During my 29 hour flight from La to Tokyo to Singapore to Phuket I slept maybe 5 or 6 hours. So the first day at the hotel I fell a sleep 13.00pm and woke up 00.00, and after that I couldnt do anything more then fall a sleep again, so I slept about 17 hours the first day in phuket, and the best part no jetlag what so ever. Its my fourth day here now and the for the first time in 3 months I dont feel like a tourist. let me explain hehe.. I wake up late every day, I dont go to the beach everyday, Im not looking for any adventures like sightseeing or any other tourist things available in the area, im just doing exactly what I want when I want and I love it. Basically it feels like being home. Just that Im living at the beach in a hotel and I dont have to make my own food hehe. Ive thought about this for a while now, but it gets more clear for me everyday. "I might not be rich, but some good choises in life I certainly did" otherwise I couldnt tell you this.

In three months Ive seen some incredible places that I never thought in my life I would get the chance to explore. For example Machu Picchu in peru, Ive read about in school but thats it. Seeing it with my own eyes made me get a whole new perspective of what it really was and is still after a 1000 years.
I do recemmend it too for those who are interested in history and well for others too. Ive seen 3 things in my life that really felt unreal seeing it. The first thing I saw was Burj khalifa in dubai, the second thing was the sand  dunes in Ica, Peru and the third thing is Machu picchu. Such amazing places..

Back to present time again. I just booked my second hotel here and I still have 9 nights before I head up to chiang mai preparing for songkran. This is the event Ive been waiting for since I left home in january. My first real "waterwar" and im so exited and looking forward to see what its all about. Just have this hard decision of what kind of gun im going to buy hehe.. a big ass gun or an elephant to ride on and spray water on everyone haha. I will let you know and hopefully upload some pictures..


until next time.. ciao ;)

sometimes you have to look back and see what made you go this far

Buenas noches mi amigos y amigas

hello again, from peru this time. Did vancouver, las vegas and los angeles allready and I thought to myself that its about time for me to tell you about all the things we've done this far. 

Let's start with vancouver. vancouver is a really beautiful city, so sad though that I went there this time of the year. Of course always when you travel to a place never seen by yourself you give it a first impression, and I must admit that my first impression wasn't the best, but it got better and better the longer I stayed there. Well of course, I left thailand and my girlfriend so I was a little bit sad when I started my trip to canada so that might have been one reason why the first impression wasn't the best. For me the first impression is very important not only when I travel but also when I meet new people. My goal from the very beginning when I stepped on the plane in finland until i go home was to improve my ability in meeting people and getting new friends and also and maybe the first priority to grow as a person and see life differently. But back to vancouver again. I'm not going to lie about this but it actually took me several days to really feel that I made a good choice choosing freezing cold canada instead of something warmer near thailand or even hawaii that I actually had in mind before I chose canada. The purpose of this trip was to meet up with this friend that Im going to travel with more or less until july. It's funny though because you know like in stores they have these sales every now and then, and I can almost compare this trip to that. I bet you've heard about buy 1, get one for free sales offer. ;) Well let me explain hehe. I told you about this friend, right? so he's the number 1 and the get one for free is another friend that also lives in vancouver and Im so pleased that I got to meet them both this far away from home. 

During my stay in vancouver I had time to go to a nhl game between the canucks and minnesota, visit squamish, rent a bike and bicycle around stanley park and some shopping of course. After my ten days in vancouver it was time to say goodbye to nicke and go with träisk and his girlfriend to las vegas which I never thought I would visit in my life :) 

Las vegas, according to what I've seen in the movies Vegas was exactly like that. A strip with everything you can imagine, luxury hotels, limousines everywhere, every luxury shop you can think ofand let's not forget the casinos haha. It felt unreal, so beautiful and so much to see in such a small place, I really loved vegas. It's expensive but hey it's vegas ;) Spent only two days there, in the hilton elara hotell which is maybe the best hotell I stayed in so far in my life. And I'm so happy even though I just got to sit in the lamborghini gallardo, but it really made my day. After two days in vegas we rented a car and drove to los angeles true the desert of nevada. Not much there to see on the road but it was truly a experience to put in your lifes resume. Well yeah I almost forgot. My first impression of vegas btw was "yeah I could live here" hehe.

Im sorry but its time to go to sleep now so I will continue this post about los angeles in a couple of days. Hope to see you soon again :) 

It's time to move on

Hello once again

A month has almost passed, and I've been enjoying my time here in Thailand to fullest.

Time flies faster than you can imagine, it feels like yesterday when we checked in in khao lak and 03.00 tomorrow I'm leaving this beautiful country, only for a short while tho and I'm happy that I know that I'm coming back soon.

These two past weeks I've spent with my girlfriend in Koh phangan, koh samui and phuket. 

Koh phangan was nice but the reason we went there was full moon party on haad rin beach, and believe me it was insane. Insanely fun :)

Met a lot of new friends from all around the world, and got an experience of a lifetime. I've heard rumours about the full moon party, but rumours is always rumours and now I can tell my own story about the event. 

Around 6 in the morning we decided to go back to the hotel that was 8 km away, and we booked our tickets to samui allready the day after stupid as we were haha. We set the alarmclock on 11.30 cuz we thought the pickup would be 12.30 but we were so wrong, 11.30 we heard someone knocking on the door while we were still in bed. I opened and the person tells us that the taxi is waiting for us. And we paniced, jumped out of bed and started packing like maniacs, BUT we made it. Hangovered I was trying to survive the ride to the pier without vomiting. And I did, luckily. We also decided that this is not going to happen again, BUT wait for it haha.

Next stop: Koh samui.

Koh samui was beautiful, the hotel we lived in was really nice. Maybe the best hotel we have had this far.

So if you ever go to koh samui I recommend you to sleep at the avenue samui ;)

The location of the hotel was about 1,5 km outside Chaweng centre. So we didn't even use a taxi, not even one day. The first day in town we bumped into som friends from spain we met on the minibus to koh phangan. They took us to this place called the arkbar for a beer and we talked about full moon party. Rest of our days in samui we spemt mostly walking around town and also met up with our spanish friends one more time. This was the last day so we had to go and sleep early because pickup was around 10 o'clock. I don't regret that we stayed up till 3 in the morning but again we overslept and woke up one minute before the taxi was leaving, but lucky as we were AGAIN we made it. But there ain't going to be a third time. So we left samui and went back to phuket, this time to phuket town for 4 nights. 

Today is my last day here and my gf left yesterday, so it's time to say goodbye now and travel to the other side ofthe world. My next destination will be Vancouver, Canada. Going back to the cold weather for some days, but I must admit that I'm really looking forward to some fresh air. It's going to be my first time I'm travelling to that side of the world. And guess how excited I am? ;) The next time I will be in thailand is in april and I'm only going to spend 10 days in Vancouver. The rest will remain a secret until the 22th of february ;) 

Follow M4thias_s on instagram for more exlusive info and pictures of my year abroad ;)

Thanks for reading 

Thailand <3

Hello again dear readers

At the moment I'm sitting in the hotel resteurang and just enjoying the warm weather and the sound of the waves. I've spent 7 days in khao lak, 2 days in phi phi and 5 days in karon with my parents and my surprise guest. I guess all of you, well at least the most of you have already figured out that my surprice guest is my girlfriend, but anyway we have had 14 absolutely amazing days together. But like every story something always ends, and my parents went home yesterday so now it's just us two left. It says that people are not made to stay at the same place forever so we decided to explore more of beautiful Thailand. Our first stop is Koh Phangan and haven't really explored nothing yet, meaning we have the best time in front of us. Next stop is going to be Koh Samui for a few days and after that we are heading back to Phuket to stay in a junior suite for 5 days before we go our separate way again. But hey that is when the real adventure starts, that I've been looking forward to for a long time now. But I must admit these two weeks have been so amazing and so needed. Now it feels like I'm ready for the next step, and explore the rest of the world. 

I won't tell you my whole plan, but at least my next destination after Thailand.. 

And my next destination is... hahah forget it. 

Not gonna happen.. 

until next time ;)

So I left Bali behind

I spent 8 days in Seminyak, Bali and believe me when I say. "it was time to move on" and after all Bali wasn't quite what I expected. It was fun at first but 5 days would have been enough. To much people, everything was so packed, the beach was awful, I have never seen so much rubbish in the same place except for a place where they stack garbage. But NOT on a beach.. not tourist friendly at all. And the traffic?&#¥ chaos chaos chaos. So I can tell you I'm very pleased to be in thailand now. Allready spent 3 days here with my parents, and my surprice guest ;) this place is just mindblowing. Everything here is just amazing, the weather, the BEACH, our hotel, my roommate ;) 

Haven't explored so much of this place yet, but at least we have some plans upcoming.

It's a quiet place and a really nice one to relax and just take time and go through things you wouldn't do anywhere else.

The place I'm talking about is orchid beach resort in khao lak, thailand. The first place of three where I'm going to take my parents. 

Who is my secret roommate? where am I going next? 

That my friends, you can read about in my upcoming post.

and pictures? well yeah I tried to fix it, but it wasnt that easy to do it, so if you want to see some pictures, then you can go and check out my instagram ;). 

M4thias_s 

and feel free to follow, it makes me just happy if you do ;)

time is precious, waste it on something good

As a special request from a follower that doesn't understand swedish I from now on will type in english. 

I've been in Bali now for 4 beautiful days, and still 4 to go.

In these 4 days I've been exploring Seminyak (where I live) and Kuta. Kuta is about one hour walk from my hotel, and yesterday I did that twice. You can either walk on the beach to Kuta or if you want to see something else than a 5 km beach you can walk on the side of the road. 

Well i did that the first time in the morning and I really enjoyed it. The second time I went there was to grab something to eat. KFC for starters and some Flapjacks pancake for dessert. Actually there's a story about KFC that I'd like to share with you. It happened about a year ago in Dubai. Me, my girlfriend and one of my best friends were out partying, and after we decided to get some food to help the hangover. So we went to KFC for the first time in my life and I was so exited. We brought the food to the hotel. When we got the hotel the doorman told us that you can't bring your gf with you so I left the food at the hotel and went to her place to sleep. Yes you heard me right, I left the food at the hotel. When i came back the next day I threw the food in the trash. So my first time was not my first time, yesterday was my first time heh. And my opinion about the food?? Eeh it was okey :p comparing to flapjacks pancake it was litteraly shit :p

Well that was the story about my first time to KFC.

So back to Kuta and Seminyak, in Kuta you can find everything, its more like a city and seminyak is like a village :p In Kuta they have all the expensive shops like billabong, oakley, victorias secrets and more. In Seminyak theres more small shops that sells fake clothes, massage on the street, well you know the rest. The best part is that you don't need a taxi to take you from position A to B. 

Before I got to bali I've had contact with two girls from sweden, and yesterday one of them wrote me and asked if I wanted to come and celebrate her birthday with her and some friends, so I did and it turned up to be an amazing night. The funny part about it was that when I got to Sky Garden there were 3 people waiting for me. The girl who asked me to join and another girl and a guy. Here comes the funny part. The other girl was the girl that I've had contact with on the internet. And these girls did not know each other before this trip. Small world isn't it? ;) So I met both of em that same day, lucky me :)
We started with a buffé on the top floor and while eating we met two other guys from australia that stayed with us for the rest of the night. So blessed to be where I am right now, couldn't ask for more :)
So after the buffé we went down one floor to where the actual party were. And guess what? FREE DRINKS between 21-23 o'clock, not too shabby :D so we started drinking and drinking and drinking until the clock was eleven. Don't quite remember when we went home tho :p But we were drunk as f*ck. Sat down outside my new friends hostel and talked for a while, went inside too just see what a hostel look like, but the securityguard came and told me a couple of minutes later that I can't sleep there, so had to go. But at that time I was so hammered so I think it was time to go home :p

And then there's the day after a.k.a hangover day. Omg the pain that went thru my head this morning was on another level. And with no painkillers what so ever I litterally thought my head was going to explode. But here I am still alive and kicking, waiting for tomorrow.
Tomorrow it's leg day....
 that went wrong I meant it's BEACHDAY ;)

take care and see you next time ;)

no pictures? wait for it.. it's a new day tomorrow :)

start of something new :)

Hej och välkommen till mitt år på resande fot. where to start? :)

Kan börja med att berätta att detta skulle inte vara möjligt ifall jag inte skulle ha över 10 års arbetserfarenhet bakom mig. Det är väl den stora orsaken varför jag nu sitter o dricker en strawberry smoothie i Bali istället för att vara på jobbet.

Har länge velat pröva på nåt sånthär, rättare sagt 2005 lr 2006 hade jag möjligheten att åka med två av mina bästa kompisar till Asien, men jag fegade ur.

2015 skulle dock bli året som jag äntligen tog mig till mods o stack från Finland.

Som alla kanske har förstått så är jag nu på alterneringsledigt, mao semester med lön enligt min åsikt hehe I ETT HELT ÅR (nästan) ska tillbaka i jobb den 1 december 2015.

Vad kommer då denna resan innehålla? Jo, Massor med minnen och upplevelser.

Har en hel del inbokat redan men ännu mer obokat.

Som sagt är jag nu i Bali, Indonesien. Själv förtillfället, men har några från Sverige som ja ska kontakta bara jag skulle få min resväska med alla mina saker i. Jo den lixom försvann på vägen nånstans. O hade nada med mig i ryggsäcken så har köpt lite nya kläder etc nu tills resväskan hittar sin väg till hotellet. 

Bor på favehotel Seminyak, inget lyxhotell men inget att klaga på heller. Det mesta finns, fina rum, ac, pool, frukost ingår m.m. Reser ju med en budget så man får ju leva efter de då oxå. 

Har aldrig haft en aning om hur det är i Bali men nåt i stil med Thailand hade ja tänkt, och visst de inte långt ifrån. Människorna ser likadana ut, husen, vägarna, träden MEN havet och stränderna. Där e nog den största skillnaden av vad jag lagt märke till efter två dagar här.

Jag älskar stränderna i Thailand. Med deras vita stränder och klarblåa vatten så har jag satt ganska hög tröskel på hur en strand ska se ut. 

Mer om Bali kommer senare, kan dock säga att för första gången i mitt liv så är jag miljonär heh. Om man tyckte de va svårt att ändra från finska mark till Euro, så kan ja erkänna att ändra från Euro till indonesiska rupiah är omöjligt. testa själv .. 1 euro är ungefär 15000 rupiah :P

Började kanske skriva om fel sak, för resan började ju faktist i Finland och inte i Indonesien. 

Åkte till helsingfors med tåg i minus 17 grader. Inget illa med det, bara de att ja kommer ju inte vara i behov av en vinterjacka på 11 månader så hade på mig en college samt en vindtätjacka.

Tågresan gick bra ända tills ja skulle byta till buss i dickursby. Stod o väntade på bussen i ca 10 minuter. Och bokstavligen trodde jag att ja skulle dö på stället. Inget illa om Finland, men -17 grader lr allt som handlar om minus grader. Why? :p Då saknade man verkligen den globala uppvärmningen.

Kom till Vanda flygfält 23.10 och mitt flyg var 07.35 nästa morgon. Fanns ju en hel del tid att döda. 3 filmer, skypesamtal m.m.

Kl var 07.45 var vi äntligen i luften, dock bara i 10 minuter innan vi var tvungen att vända tillbaka pga nåt fel på ena motorn. Så vi fick ett nytt plan och väskorna skulle ju ut och in i ett annat plan.

Innan jag var framme i Bali så hade jag landat först i Paris och sen i Hong Kong. Själva resan tog över 35 h så man var kanske inte så energisk när man var framme. Köpte lite nya kläder, hoppade i duschen och gick o la mig redan kl 8 på kvällen. Och vaknade till 29 grader, molnigt men grönt och fin natur istället för snödrivor och minus 20. Dock så är solen framme nu och har redan hunnit bränna mig lite hehe.

But hey, until next time ;)