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About this blog

This is a blog of Niko Lipsanen, a Finnish geographer and couchsurfing host who lives in Helsinki but sometimes spends winters on the Canary Islands (Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife). As a geographer I am interested in a wide array of things, and this blog is for me to write about them.

01 Nov 2025 by Niko Lipsanen

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The author sometimes has a beard and sometimes not. Here he is drinking cactus juice in Masca, Tenerife The author sometimes has a beard and sometimes not. Here he is drinking cactus juice in Masca, Tenerife (Tiina Kukkurainen 2024)

This is not my first blog but this is the first one that I write in English. I have previously had blogs in Finnish, first one already in 2004. In those I have written about politics, society, places, travelling, society, environment, religion, culture – and more. What I post on this blog will be quite much the same. As a geographer, I am interested in a wide range of subjects.

Some articles will be regularly updated

Apart from "regular blog posts" which are written and then forgotten, I post here some more informative articles that I try to keep up-to-date afterwards as well. It will be clearly mentioned when that is the case.

Comments and following

While I love to have feedback, I have not implemented commenting into this blog. I believe social media is more suitable for quick commenting, and if you have something more elaborated to say, you can send feedback directly to me.

At the moment you can comment the posts on X and Blogger but I may add some other options too.

You can follow the blog by subscribing its RSS feed on your favourite feed reader. I also post a link to all new post at my account on X: @domniknet.

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