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 […]
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 […]
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 […]