holiday

28 things I did during a two week drive in California, Nevada and Arizona from the 21st of October until the 3rd of November 2007 in the company of friend and colleague Idar Thoresen Kvam. I remember looking for something like this list before leaving, in the event that someone else is too, here is […]
For the next two weeks Avinet colleague I.T.Kvam and myself, are going on a road-trip in California, Nevada and Arizona hoping to get the highlights of San Francisco, Yosemite Valley, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon. Depending on whether we can get a steady up-link now and then we may – […]
The German capital lies on both banks of the river Spree where it has grown out of the settlement of Cölln founded in 1237. The city is now home to about 3 385 000 (2000) citizens spread over an area of 890 square kilometres. Germans love cars, something which puts a definitive mark on the […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Portlaoise and Kilkenny, Ireland (2005) The christening of fast growing baby J. Basil brought me to the Irish interior during the last weekend of August. I tell you: Irish christenings are completely different from Norwegian ones. In Norway christenings are supposed to be tedious, dry, boring affairs of some 3-4 hours duration. Not so in […]
Scandinavia by car (Denmark/Sweden) 2005 Driving and sailing Scandinavia: We set out from Oslo on the ship Color Festival bound for Hirtshals where our journey across the three islands of Denmark and the west coast of Sweden started. Our itinerary brought us through Århus, Billund/Legoland, Kolding, Odense, Copenhagen, Malmø and Gothenburg before we turned homewards. […]
Edinburgh (Scotland) 2/2005 Aline, Heather, Rune, Basil and me on a trip to Edinburgh to survey the capital of Scotland as a potential future place to study. Flying in through Prestwick, which carries all the hallmarks of a Ryanair airport, we also got to criss-cross most of the interior of the Scottish lowlands by train […]