Wildlife rescue center in Thailand

The Dessert Scale: How Sweet Is Too Sweet? Life can be measured in many ways – as I was cooking one of my favorite comfort dishes rice porridge, I realised that I needed a rice porridge sweetness scale – how much sugar is too much sugar? Welcome to the official Rice Porridge Sweetness Scale™ –…

10 May, 2006 Zurich to Beijing…. So this is what my trip looks like…if all goes as planned & wished… 20-22 May: On my way to Moscow with train from Zurich (via Vienna or Warsawa, Minsk) 22-25 May: In Moscow, mostly likely there for a couple of days 25-5 June: From Moscow to Irkutsk, would…

About wwoofing (article in Swedish) Så kallade wwoofare är ett släkte i sig, det är människor som åker runt till ekologiska gårdar och hjälper till som volontärer. Som betalning för arbetsinsatsen får de mat och husrum. Villkoren och arbetsinsatsen brukar vara angivna i en överenskommelse med värden som driver gården. Räkna med en arbetsinsats på…

Sweden has more islands than any other country on earth. Not more than Indonesia. Not more than the Philippines or Japan. Sweden — a cold, landlocked-looking country in northern Europe that most people associate with ABBA, flat-pack furniture, and unpronounceable vowels — has a jaw-dropping total of 267,570 islands, with only around 984 of them…

Why “Nobel Week Lights” Makes December the Best Time to Visit Wintertime Stockholm If you can only pick one winter week for Stockholm, make it the one when the city turns into a glowing open-air gallery: Nobel Week Lights. It’s magical, easy to enjoy, and uniquely Stockholm. What is Nobel Week Lights? Nobel Week Lights…

Walk Like a Thought: Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust, and the Well-Being of Moving Slowly We don’t have to go far to go deep. Rebecca Solnit reminds us that walking is the smallest pilgrimage with the largest return: a way the day becomes porous again and the self remembers how to listen. “Walking, ideally, is a state…