How to travel from Helsinki to Saint Petersburg by train

Helsinki to Saint Petersburg by high-speed train takes 3 hours 30 min. It start in Helsinki, it goes through Viborg and the terminus is Saint Petersburg. I had this trip in mind for some time now. I wanted to go to Russia but using train as the main transportation. So I had an opportunity last November 2011, when I had to go for a business trip in Finland, I grabbed that chance to check how far Helsinki was from Saint [...]

Tips to prepare your first trip as independent traveller

I still have fantastic memories of my first trip alone outside of Europe. When I say “first trip alone“, I mean first trip that I funded with my own money and organize everything from A to Z. I was 23 y/o. Country visited was: Japan. It was my first asian country and it was on my wish list since a very long time. I don’t know why, but I always considered that Japan was a mysterious and spiritual place to [...]

Travelling overland, another approach !

Nowadays, our life is punctuated by the time factor. Most of us are racing against the clock, and I’m sure you wished at some point to have more hours in a day …..We  know for a fact that our world is going faster and faster due to  modern technologies which are playing a stronger role in our daily life … Today in London, tomorrow in Sydney is not really exceptional anymore, we can easily reach any destinations in the world within a short [...]