Travel & destinations
This section is home to musings, thoughts and ideas that have come to me through experiencing people and places around the world
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Cranshaw & Edinburgh (Scotland), Dublin, Wicklow Mts & Port Laoise (Ireland)
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Cranshaw & Edinburgh (Scotland), Dublin, Wicklow Mts & Port Laoise (Ireland) As we drew nearer Cranshaw Farm Cottages, the amount of dead pheasants in the road increased inversely proportionally to the distance between the houses. In my mind dangerously close to the prefect setting, this was not the outskirts of nowhere – this was in…
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London and Oxford (England)
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London and Oxford (England) A bed with walls, that is the best description of my hotel room. Although not a suitable venue for space consuming activities such as standing up or sitting the hotel was an excellent base for the trip. London London is is busy, it is grand and it is splendid in many…
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Aberdeen, Edinburgh and the Highlands (Scotland)
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Aberdeen, Edinburgh and the Highlands (Scotland) The annual fishing trip was subject to a minor modification this year as we decided to go abroad to nurture a childhood illusion of the splendour of fishing in Scotland. For two of us the illusion of catching fish in Scotland is still just an illusion. Aberdeen Travelling from…
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Paris, Nice, Grasse (France) and Monte Carlo (Monaco)
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You have to hand it out to the French – they have no sense of embarassment at all. Allthough shock would have been a more likely reaction, happiness over French entrepreneurship and sense of business was what filled me when I paid 11 € for 1 liter of pure water in the park at Chateau…
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Hamburg, Cuxhaven & Bremen (Germany)
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Hamburg, Cuxhaven & Bremen (Germany) Allthough the Germans are open minded and friendly people I can’t help but think that the sight of me and Ivar Petter cycling un slightly undersized bikes in our slightly oversized suits must have been the single most stupid sight to be seen in northern Germany in the summer of…
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Aalborg & Skagen (Denmark)
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An escape from a busy spring in Norway took me and my two companions to Northern Jütland for a few days in order to catch up on an idea of old that had been left to be just that, old, for too long… There is a little but nontheless unsuitable video snipplet from this trip…
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Natal (Brazil)
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Natal (Brazil) Having been a pronounced enemy of beach activities most of grown up life I didn’t quite know what to do with close to 1000 km of sandy beaches at my hands feet. However, a hundred or so drunk, and increasingly sun burnt, Scandinavians had a perfectly good idea what they wanted do, making the beach…
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The Single Malt Law of Consumption
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You mustn’t add anything other than perhaps a spot of water, or if you’re very adventurous – ice, to a single malt whisky, otherwise “it’s a waste of a good dram”. The unwritten rules for this initiation into the single malt fraternity are: Be prepared at the outset, to drink neat spirit, which may or…
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Edinburgh (Scotland)
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We hired a van – with a driver – to take us around the Scottish countryside – via Stirling to Loch Lomond. The lady on the phone told me that his name was Big Jock. and instantly I regretted the whole thing…
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London, Brighton & Cambridge (England)
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London, Brighton & Cambridge (England) After a day of strolling the parks around the Cambridge colleges I sat down in a decent looking pub to have a meal. While waiting for my Chicken Tikka Masala i downed three pints of Strongbow Cider in order to reinstate a healthy water balance… Another two followed during the…