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Do whales attack boats? – like in Moby-Dick

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 / Sirri Rimppi / 2 Comments

I have to talk about whales a bit longer. This one is about the population decline and the recent orca "attacks"

Just keep walking – The Salt Path

October 25, 2020November 5, 2020 / Sirri Rimppi / 6 Comments

When I told my friends I was reading a book about an old couple walking a path, they rolled their eyes. But this book about homelessness, survival, and walking is a great read!

Too much for the title – Lost Pianos of Siberia

September 19, 2020November 5, 2020 / Sirri Rimppi / 2 Comments

Lost Pianos of Siberia. What an enchanting title! I But you can’t fit the whole Siberia underneath this title. The author had a great idea, but the book is missing a clear focus.

Speak like rain – Blixen’s Out of Africa

August 22, 2020October 22, 2020 / Sirri Rimppi / 2 Comments

Travelling in time and space with books. This time to Karen Blixen’s Kenya where colonial racism mixes with friendliness

Would you read Ulysses? – Travel to 20th-century Dublin

June 4, 2020October 22, 2020 / Sirri Rimppi / 2 Comments

I spent a few months this spring remotely wandering the streets of the early 20th-century Dublin and the seas of ancient Greek when I was reading the Ulysses and listening to a podcast about Odyssey.

Outlander tour – missing the story

January 29, 2020October 22, 2020 / Sirri Rimppi / 6 Comments

A tour with Outlander filming locations could be great fun, but unfortunately, I wasn’t impressed. Although I am going to be rather critical, I do admit that the tour was a good way to visit a few of the less accessible sites.

Next stop, Barter Books

November 27, 2019October 22, 2020 / Sirri Rimppi / Leave a comment

I knew that Barter Books is one of the biggest second-hand bookshops in the UK, yet I didn’t expect it to be so great.

North Ridge of Tryfan

November 13, 2019October 22, 2020 / Sirri Rimppi / Leave a comment

As the car crosses the Welsh border, I unfold my map. Lake District. Damn, wrong map. This one is going to be useless if I want to walk up Tryfan, a little 900m peak in North Wales.

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Sun is shining and trees are turning, I’m starting to believe in urban summer.
Starting to look like spring, finally, and I’ll need to get used to real rock again. The ”easy” stuff kept me busy, no confidence to climb the highballs quite yet…
“My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today” - Hazel, Richard Adams, Watership Down
I was supposed to go to Russia this month. Now it’s not an option. My cousin had to come back from st Petersburg as things were getting too difficult and dangerous for foreigners, and the ordinary people in Russia are facing major changes in their lives. It is not the same as being attacked and having to run for your life but the war affects people on both sides. And it is all happening so very near just now, just across one invisible border. I’ve written more about this on my blog - link in the bio.
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