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Who's behind this blog?

I’m Pirita Paananen, a finnish traveler, designer and photographer who loves new adventures. I'm also one of worlds first travel bloggers, my first travel blog dating all the way back to 2004. ​ I'm the one who drove Via Baltica with a salad, slept in the backseat while crossing the Öresund bridge for the first time, I learned how to order wine in French in Paris, walked down the walk of Fame in Hollywood, I burned my skin in Tahiti, swam with Dolphins in Florida, learned to dance in Argentina, photographed punk gigs in London, learned the secrets of olive oil in Tuscany, watched a cheetah praying for its food in Kenya, fed kangaroos in Sydney, watched love actually in an outside theater in Singapore… ​ There’s a lot more to come and there’s loads of good stories to be shared from my travels around the world.

My visited countries

Everyone loves these maps, here's mine. Some countries I've visited back and forth several times. Probably latest peak came at 2017 when I visited 13 different countries - and some of them several times.

My social media (Instagram)

Here's links and feeds from my instagram, feel free to follow me there too! I have two separate accounts, one for mixed things (the first one) and another one as a selfie challenge project. In Facebook you can find the page "Pilgrim with dragon tattoo", I'm trying to keep that one updated with new blog posts.

Want to get in touch?

If you have questions to ask, want me to write about certain topic ​or just want to say hi, drop me line using the contact form!

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