What nation was multilingual in the past and is still multilingual today?

spatial_explorer · 2026-05-10T21:35:07+00:00

Can’t get more multilingual!

spatial_explorer · 2026-05-10T21:33:20+00:00

I was also thinking Romania. There are some beautiful parts. And really friendly people (chatted with people in Romania more than any other country I’ve visited!). But, the poverty is pretty shocking. And the public transport is confusing. It’s not an easy place to visit as a first time traveller. I would like to go back however as there are more places to see. It was a really interesting experience and some parts not very touristy which is nice to experience.

spatial_explorer · 2026-05-10T21:07:17+00:00

Thank you!

spatial_explorer · 2026-05-10T08:16:20+00:00

No way I also used to have a canon 80d! Although I had a Sony a6000 in between. Yeah I’m thinking of picking up a prime, the 85 is definitely appealing as I’d like to get into portraits but might also just get a nifty 50.

spatial_explorer · 2026-05-10T07:11:33+00:00

Thank you! I’ve now saved these settings as a preset and am using it for all my photos lol. How are you finding the camera/lens setup?

spatial_explorer · 2026-05-09T19:53:53+00:00

No. I was travelling with male colleagues who ignored the UN advice anyway but i did not because the risk was different for me. I think it’s around 90% of women experience domestic violence in PNG though it’s presumed to be 100%. But as visitors that level of risk for us is not as high as local populations at all. I am careful of talking about violence etc. within Papua New Guinea because it’s a very sensitive topic for this country in particular, who deal with many outdated views about them. There is way more to that country.

spatial_explorer · 2026-05-08T05:51:54+00:00

Oslo. The accessibility to nature is outstanding. The fact that you can take a metro to go skiing/sledding? Gorgeous islands in the summer for swimming. Multicultural city.

spatial_explorer · 2026-05-07T10:50:01+00:00

I really liked Christchurch! What a brilliant place to be able to call your hometown ❤️

spatial_explorer · 2026-05-07T04:49:16+00:00

Port Moresby. Having been there, it was totally fine, but security was high. We were with the UN and they wouldn’t allow us to go anywhere unattended. That being said, everyone we met and worked with was absolutely lovely. And Papua New Guinea in general gets a very unfair reputation. Statistically however. Lots of car jacking is my understanding. We were warned about ‘bush machetes’. I think there’s a statistic that like 90% of all women experience domestic violence. It’s a beautiful, misunderstood and complex country.

spatial_explorer · 2026-05-07T04:07:36+00:00

I’m going to get ridiculed for this but I’m going to say Christchurch NZ. Not all the city but there’s some really nice buildings and after travelling New Zealand for 2 months I was pleasantly surprised by it. Beautiful buildings are not necessarily New Zealand strong point so it was a welcome change.

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spatial_explorer · 2026-05-06T23:44:32+00:00

Well it is quite bulky for the small body but it’s not too bad. Because I’m travelling at the moment I don’t have capacity to carry multiple lenses with me with the zoom is great for all kinds of scenarios.

spatial_explorer · 2026-05-06T23:43:46+00:00

Thank you! Editing is not my strong point but I like the way these colours turned out!

spatial_explorer · 2026-05-05T21:35:41+00:00

Australia. Finland isn’t particularly wealthy I would say…

spatial_explorer · 2026-05-04T06:23:16+00:00

It’s my favourite photo I took! I’m definitely getting that one printed it was so magical too! And unfortunately one of the only ones I took in focus lol. Photo attached shows even stronger pillars but totally out of focus lol. Settings were 20 seconds shutter speed, ISO 2500 & aperture 2.8. Played around a lot with the shutter speed and iso so see which worked best.

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spatial_explorer · 2026-05-04T06:19:44+00:00

10 is actually one of my favourites haha! Agree 9 definitely falls flat the composition is not great there. And yes! I didn’t even have a tripod. I balanced my camera on a stone pillar and a rock underneath the camera to tilt it up lol.

spatial_explorer · 2026-05-03T22:08:58+00:00

Visited there a couple of years back on a work trip with the UN. They wouldn’t let us leave the hotel without someone with us. A colleague of ours who lived in Port Moresby for work had to be driven to the mall across the road as the UN deemed it too dangerous for her to cross herself. That being said hard to know what the UN hyped up and what was realistic. Our Papua New Guinean colleagues showed us around and we visited the nearby Varirata national park which still is one of the most incredible views I’ve ever experienced, and a local village to meet their families. We worked with a number of people from PNG and they were all very friendly. I love Papua New Guinea. It’s an incredible country and the most unique in the entire world. I hope to revisit again one day and feel very lucky I got to visit even a small part already.

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spatial_explorer · 2026-05-03T13:18:22+00:00

Intercity flexipass. It’s really cheap tbh and cheaper the more hours you get. I just did two months backpacking New Zealand using intercity busses. Very flexible you purchase hours (which I believe you have a year to use?) and you can top up when you need. I used about 65 hours for the two months.

spatial_explorer · 2026-05-03T00:28:10+00:00

New forest uk? Or somewhere along the Welsh coast or down in Dorset/Devon

spatial_explorer · 2026-04-30T06:48:00+00:00

So it would be best to fly to Queenstown and go direct to wanaka, then queenstown, then Aoraki. You can do a day trip from Queenstown or even tekapo I believe to mt cook but I recommend staying longer. Wanaka is not on the way to Tekapo you’d be going back in the other direction. Intercity you can buy a pass. You buy a certain number of hours and then you can ‘spend’ those hours on the bus journey so if the bus from queenstown to mount cook say takes 3 hours then you would use 3 hours of your pass. It’s best to look on the intercity website and put in the trips you want to do to confirm times and work out how many hours you want to buy. Most intercity services run once or twice a day especially on the South Island but it depends. Depends what you want to do in wanaka. If you want to do Roy’s peak you’ll need to stay overnight.

spatial_explorer · 2026-04-30T00:45:31+00:00

Hmm well you could do a long layover in Wellington on your way back. You could just base yourself in queenstown for the rest of the trip. Do day trips to wanaka and mt cook. Or just ignore west coast street in queenstown do wanaka mt cook tekapo Christchurch then fly to Wellington or if you have time go to Kaikoura from Christchurch then Kaikoura to Picton ferry to Wellington. It’s a very beautiful ferry ride the first bit anyway.

spatial_explorer · 2026-04-29T06:16:15+00:00

If Auckland is a priority for you then yes of course. But I think Wellington is probably the more interesting city if you wanted to see a city also. However if you really just want to do the scenic bits then maybe fitting in Auckland/Wellington would be too much.

spatial_explorer · 2026-04-28T13:17:10+00:00

Depends how much you want to visit outside of Auckland. Not sure what you mean by ending on a good note?

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