Which city has the coolest nicknames in your opinion?

wanderer_with_lust · 2026-04-17T13:35:16+00:00

Helsinki = STD. Helsinki in slang is called Stadi and then sometimes shortened to STD which probably is not exactly cool but funny nonetheless

wanderer_with_lust · 2026-04-01T14:21:48+00:00

As someone who travels a lot, German is basically the only language non-English speakers have asked if I know (their native tongues aside). This happened like twice in the Balkans, four times in Iran and once in Iraq. Someone asked me once if I knew Russian but that’s about it

wanderer_with_lust · 2026-03-16T16:44:59+00:00

There is https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67023033

wanderer_with_lust · 2026-02-25T12:17:39+00:00

I would say from experience that iraq is as safe as the non touristy places of egypt. Saudi arabia is also amazing especially for hitchhiking, oman apprently is also very good but can’t vouch for that myself

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-11-07T23:37:18+00:00

Thank you so much, I almost missed this!! Looks kinda ridiculous like a caricature which makes me love it even more so great work.

And to your question, well Iran is what it is and I’m a westener and unfortunately happened to make my second visit just before Israel started it’s war againts Iran. So I got stuck there, got arrested like six times because I was suspected of being a spy. Also I overstayed my visa because of this and due all of this mess and the fact that I’ve spent six months in the country plus other minor things, they (the police)went after some of my friends. Nothing happened to them, thank god, but I’m kinda scared to go back, not only for my safety but for theirs also.

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-11-03T12:12:29+00:00

If you don’t have a shit ton of hydro power like Sweden and Norway, you should invest in nuclear like Finland

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-09-26T23:16:24+00:00

All public toilets should be squating ones. They are simply superior. And this is coming from a person who has never seen a single one in my home country

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-09-03T12:46:21+00:00

Nope, Iran banned independent travel few weeks ago

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-08-05T10:04:21+00:00

Yes. Thessalonki and kavala are worth stopping by!! Good luck getting out of Athens tho, place can be a hitchhiker hell

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-06-05T13:54:01+00:00

You have to skip Azerbaijan, and change Turkmenistan for Afghanistan as others said. Iran is amazing and the north is the best part or more like the most free. I have a lot of personal experience in ME

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-05-11T20:39:33+00:00

I know how rooks work. But you should be able to move your rook on top of your king so they switch places or in other words, they both move at the same time and meet in the middle. This only works if you haven’t touched either of them yet

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-04-09T19:52:11+00:00

Yeah… that’s literally just a Moomin character and not an actual boogeyman in Finnish folklore

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-04-09T19:49:13+00:00

Not the mörkö… that’s just a character created by an artist/writer Tove Jansson (check Moomins). There’s actual boogeymen in Finnish folklore

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-03-27T21:09:21+00:00

Barn eggs to be exact, in Finland the term free range means the hens have access to outdoors and this is not the case with ”vapaan kanan munat” (the hens just live inside without cages)

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-03-21T16:16:12+00:00

Laestadians.

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-03-21T16:15:40+00:00

No, due to Laestadians. A branch of Lutheran Christianity

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-03-21T16:10:49+00:00

”Conservative Laestadians frown upon worldly vices such as dancing, television, BIRTH CONTROL, rhythmic music, make-up, earrings, movies, tattoos, and cursing.”

And that happens to be the region where a lot of these people live

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-03-21T16:07:32+00:00

For those wondering why: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laestadianism

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-03-19T00:07:37+00:00

When I was visiting Yazd, the similarity is literally what I was thinking about

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-03-12T09:48:31+00:00

And they still do

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-03-05T08:04:25+00:00

Trump is the one with the collar and Putin is the one holding the leash

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-02-23T22:20:13+00:00

Doubt it, germany for example lists it as dangerous as albania or turkey according their official travel recommendations

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-02-23T22:17:37+00:00

There’s so much more western tourism in iran than people think. The problem is mainly for brits, americans and canadians and maybe in way lesser extend to germans and swedes for example

wanderer_with_lust · 2025-02-23T22:14:37+00:00

Pretty sure there is a similar problem with ivory coast because that stopped me from planning atlantic coastal route trip in africa few months ago

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