Aviemore, Scotland (2006) The annual conference of the North Sea Commission and the Interreg North Sea programme was held at the outstandingly vulgar MacDonald Highland resort in the ski resort town of Aviemore in the Scottish highlands region. I was there to present GeoShare in the company of colleague Ivar Petter who were also there […]
Portuguese cuisine can be variable when it comes to quality but more often than not the neglect is on the consumers part if he finds himself landed in a poor restaurant. Quality is everywhere, just waiting to be explored. Barrio Altos many gems include the restaurante O Faio, an excellent although a bit touristy restaurant […]
Spring holiday during the last week of May took me to once more to Lisbon during the 2006 installation of the Rock in Rio music festival. This added to the delights of the Portuguese capital which are already rich in numbers.
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 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 […]
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.
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 […]
406 passed away within one year after finding a new home, on the 7th of November 2005, when it suffered a conflict with Norwegian bedrock, drew a terminal breath to to fill its airbags, and immediately seized to be. It all happened within the space of a few seconds. I have nothing but kind thoughts […]
The archipelago of Fernando Noronha is located some 360 km off the coast of Brazil outside the sandy shores and heavenly beaches of Rio Grande do Norte. The island is no larger than that one could easily walk around it within a day but has a rich marine fauna and holds important habitats for such […]
If you ever should find yourself in the position where you are tempted to go to Fernando do Noronha a beautiful yet somewhat dry archipelago in the atlantic outside the state of Pernambuco in North Eastern Brazil there is ONE thing you should make sure of. NEVER EVER USE the agency of PAX TURISMO located […]