Year: 2006

  • Klagenfurt, Austria (April 2006)

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    Klagenfurt, Austria (April 2006) A meeting in the Enable funded ROADS project brought me and colleague Idar to Klagenfurt in the region of Carinthia in south-west Austria. This region was disappointingly beautiful from the perspective of one who has spent his whole life in denial of other natural beauty than the one found in Sogn…

  • Haarlem (The Netherlands) 2006

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    Haarlem (The Netherlands) 2006 A brief visit to the Netherlands to give a presentation at a conference brought me to Haarlem, near-by neighbor to bustling and sinfull dutch capital Amsterdam. With a busy schedule only enough time was left for me to conclude that Haarlem was a most agreeable and idyllic city which is an…

  • February in Natal and Carneval in Olinda (2006)

    My favourite holiday destination over the past three years was once again made victim of my presence as I made my way across the atlantic, leaving behind the cold of the Scandinavian winter and greeting the equatorial summer.

  • Defeated by the Norwegian Post Service (Posten)

    I am dissatisfied with the Norwegian postal service in general and today in particular. I have been negatively affected by this organization three times today and still the time is no more than 12:46. Waking from what can only be described as relative beauty sleep at a fairly comfortable airport hotel in Bergen this morning…