Saint Olav – isn’t that the snowball guy from Frozen? Actually no, but he did live in a cool place high up on the map, and long before anyone had heard of Jon Snow he’d be crowned King in the North. Born not as a… Read More »Who was Saint Olav?
A Rite of Passage for the Young, a Midlife-Crisis or a Senior’s Reward for a Life of Toil? Screw buying a fancy car, and skip the trip with your friends to South-East Asia: becoming a Hobbit and walking across New Zealand is the new hot… Read More »Te Araroa Statistics: Age Distribution on Te Araroa
How Thick is the Branch: on being but a guest in a world much older and more powerful than the one you move in daily
Why would anyone walk that far? is a question most thru-hikers have been asked at one time. It’s not a bad question—but it is not the question that we will be looking into today. Instead, we will be looking deeper into another question, that is… Read More »Te Araroa Statistics: Gender Distribution on Te Araroa
No matter where in the world you are, the smell of the sea remains the same. I was thousands of kilometres away from the granite cliffs I ran barefoot over as a child during the short (but oh so sweet) Swedish summers, but the scents… Read More »Te Araroa Part One | Cape Reinga—Leaping Place of the Spirits
Tusentals kilometer skiljde mig från mitt älskade Vallda söder om Göteborg, men oavsett hur långt ifrån mitt hem jag kom så luktade havet alltid likadant. Horisonten var densamma som den jag sett på den svenska västkusten, och vågornas brus lät som de alltid hade gjort-… Read More »Andarnas avskedsplats