About Reine
Let’s skip the elevator pitch and get one thing straight: I’m not here to sell you anything. No affiliate links. No branded merch. No soft-focus shots of avocado toast under a quote about “manifesting”.
This site is simply a travel log, a time capsule, a digital ashtray filled with the butts of a thousand memories. It’s a place where I stash thoughts, snapshots and the occasional misguided attempt at wisdom from decades of roaming across cracked cobblestones, sampling mysterious food and desperately looking for toilets in border towns.
Roaming Valletta.
The photos are mine. The words too. The typos? Think of them as street food, a little rough around the edges and too much garlic, but authentic.
Traveling is one of my biggest passions which provides me with endless amounts of inspiration. I love to walk around in large cities, surrounded by the creative chaos of mankind. I’m always looking for that crooked alley with a rusty door and a grumpy local who talks about the town life before Instagram ruined it.
I’ve endured the cold steppe of Mongolia, the fumes of São Paulo and the food of New Zealand. I despise Charles de Gaulle airport almost as much as I enjoy ice cream from Cold Stone.
Exploring a desert in Iran.
I’ve been singing from the stage of Moulin Rouge in Paris, danced waltz at the Swedish Championships and assisted a fire juggler in San Francisco without burning to ash. But not all at the same time.
Why do I keep writing this stuff? Because the world is too big and too weird not to. Read my book “Här finns inga drakar” about it all!
Hanging around in the streets of Basel.
When I’m not on the road you will likely spot me blocking the view of your favorite band, having too much gelato in an alley or simply roaming deserted streets on cold autumn days.
I have setup base camp in Gothenburg, Sweden. Apart from chilly winters and murderous sea gulls, it’s a place as good as any when it comes to planning new adventures.
About Mink Machine
Mink Machine is a personal web site, serving a questionable blend of freshly brewed HTML to the unsuspecting world since 1994. It is primarily used as a creative playground featuring blog entries, travel photos and various projects. If you find any bugs, keep calm and hug a ferret.
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