Swedish Nerd Vs. The World

My friend Andreas and I had recently been to Azerbaijan when we arrived at the Armenian border from Georgia by car. We knew we would be questioned about our trip to Azerbaijan since Armenia don't see eye to eye with their neighbouring country and even though the war has pretty much ended, you can tell that the conflict isn't solved. The custom brought it up when they saw the stamp from Azerbaijan but it actually went much smoother than I had imagined and soon we were on the way to the first stop on the road trip in the northern parts of the country. Haghpat is a small village which is notable for Haghpat Monastery, a religious complex founded in the 10th century and included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The monastery is a magnificent example of medieval Armenian architecture and the surroundings are beautiful with high mountains and deep valleys. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been too and I had also enjoyed the harsh surr...

This was the trip that started it all, this is the big bang of the Swedish Nerd vs. The World. In early 2015 I had just broken up with my girlfriend and all our plans for moving abroad came to an end. Lonely, bored and with a lot of savings I thought, hey let’s do something fun. Not many would think, yeah let’s go on three cruises in the same week from Stockholm to Finland, Estonia and Latvia but then again, someone had to be the first to think that. At this point of time I had a very vague idea with the trip that it would also become the first trip of seeing every country in Europe, but that was more of a way too big idea that I couldn’t grasp just yet. I didn’t even think I would do that since it was so many countries left to be seen, so at the end of it all it was a start but I also didn’t see it like it had to be that. That would grow on me after these trips and here I am, two years later and I have seen almost every country in Europe and wants to see the whole world instead. Fin...