Ok, this is it. In 10 days I will be finally taking that plane to Bangkok (via Helsinki, where I hope to do some interesting sightseeing during the 5 h stop over at minus something degrees in my flip flops and tshirt:). Although this trip was decided in a sort of impulse about a month ago, since the day I pressed the ¨buy ticket¨button, I have not been able to get it out of my head (in a good way, that is). Although it is just a 17 days trip (and knowing that some of my friends who have been backpacking for muuuuch longer will laugh at me), an amateur backpacker going solo faces some dilemmas about where to go, what to bring, what not to bring... (the biggest dilemma seems to be so far: Koh ... read more