Turin, capital of the Piedmont region and a major industrial city on the banks of the river Po, home of close to one million Italians. For four september days in 2006 the city was put under severe stress by an additional 308 Norwegians. Two study trips per year is one more than the doctor prescribed […]
The 2006 Avinet study trip: Returning to Iceland for the third time made it no less of an experience than the previous visits. Iceland is wilderness, it is raw nature, it is hot springs and it is a busy urban community – all at once.
There is little to say about Luxemburg but that it has done nicely out of the European Union in terms of working places, regarding its modest size and Frenchish population.
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 […]
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.
Iceland has more to offer than Reykjavik, the Blue Lagoon and Geysir. On this trip I was introduced to northern Iceland and its richness in cultural heritage, its people and their excellent humor. Add a geothermically heated pool in the court yard of the hotel and “throw in” a couple of bottles of whisky as […]
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 […]