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This image is from a beach in Norway, but it could have been almost anywhere in the world. By the way, if you want to read stories from Norway, in Norwegian, head for the parallel archive page at Sandalsand Norge.
In search of the ancient Silk Road
This is about a trip on the Silk Road in the Central Asian republics of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. Marco Polo was here before me. The article is...
Imagine standing on top of the world’s most famous ski jump – Holmenkollen
The view from the tower on the Holmenkollen hill is tremendous. Behind us is the huge forest of Nordmarka, ahead is Oslo and the wide fjord. Below...
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I'm happy! When I started out my blogging practice almost three years ago I knew that plain text would have to be accompanied and...
Celebrating Norway’s Constitution Day
In 2014 Norway's Constitution Day celebrations were more spectacular than ever before. It was the 200th anniversary of the constitution. Apart from...
Hardanger Road Trip (6) Sørfjorden, Odda and Røldal
On our Hardanger road trip we had reached the southern part, Odda. The ingredients are fjord, snow, fruit trees, industrial plants, a waterfall and...
Hardanger Road Trip (5) Agatunet
Heading south on the Sørfjord on our Hardanger road trip we visited the unique hamlet of Agatunet, one of the very original farm villages of Norway....
Hardanger Road Trip (4) Utne
There is more to Utne in Hardanger than we imagined. The evening we spent was perfect and the next morning offered an insight into Norwegian...
Hardanger Road Trip (3) Rosendal to Utne
On the road trip in beautiful, sunny Hardanger from Rosendal to Utne, we had blossoming fruit trees and a surprise visit to a glacial lake. We also...
Hardanger Road Trip (2) Rosendal
The second part of our Hardanger road trip covers our impressions from Rosendal. It was a beautiful morning in Rosendal, on the second day of our...
Hardanger Road Trip (1) Stavanger to Rosendal
The first leg of our Hardanger road trip covers the road from Stavanger to Rosendal. Read about two and a half days on the road in picturesque...
How do you pack for your trip?
Every person who has been on a trip has had to ask these two simple questions: What do I pack and what kind of luggage should I pack it in?...
Great Travel Movies
Find 20 Great Travel Movies right here. There have been many attempts to assemble an ultimate list of great travel movies. I did a Google search,...
20 Ways to Slice Europe
How do you slice Europe based on prejudices? Here are 20 maps indicating the stereotypes which surround us in everyday life. What kind of prejudices...
Førde in the crossroads
Førde was previously rated the ugliest town in Norway. There are unfortunately many contenders for this unfavourable title and I sincerely doubt...
VIDEO – Norway – Førde
This is a video from Førde, a medium-sized town in Western Norway. It is set at the end of Sunnfjord, amidst high mountains. Førde is now...
Defensive structures (3) The protection of civilians
The protection of civilians is the key to some kinds of defensive military structures. However, the term protection may not be correct. Some of the...
Defensive Structures (2) The smaller ones
Some defensive structures are basically walled military compounds on a limited area, like fortresses. Others include entire towns. The fortresses...
Defensive Structures (1) The huge ones
There are some historically significant and physically huge defensive structures around the world. They built them to protect entire countries...
Great Travel Quotes
Find great travel quotes right here. The world of literature is full of wise observations with or without a sense of humour. Some might be found in...
Bucket list for 2014 and beyond
I will by the start of a new year be presenting my bucket list for the coming year or years. The list is the manifestation of my dreams or concrete...
2013 is out, 2014 is here
26 flights, 36,822 kilometres, 7 trips, 9 countries, 35 days spent travelling, 14 new World Heritage Sites visited. That was the statistics for...
Religious Buildings (12) After death – Special memorials, with no identified dead persons
What happens to a person after death? For some there are special memorials, with no identified dead persons. Military and political authorities have...
Religious Buildings (11) After death – Taking care of human remains
In this serious about religious buildings we have come to what happens after death, when it comes to taking care of human remains. Mummification...
Religious Buildings (10) After death – Burial sites as World Heritage Sites
What happens after death? Some burial sites are also World Heritage Sites. Rich people, like kings, emperors and nobles have for thousands of years...
I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. (David Rockefeller)
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. (Australian Aboriginal Proverb)
There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. (Walter Lippmann)
A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place…. (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
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