Holidays 2019 – 21.800 km in the air

I know it is early… but I found some nice award flights an couldn’t hold back. As of today, my main holidays for 2019 are booked with one small “maybe”. It is an Easter holiday again. Best value for money/holidays. It will include stays in Paris, Calgary (Canada), Seattle, Portland and Chicago (all USA). But…

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Some coming up trips this summer

Summer is here in Norway. Everybody is going on holiday, but I am sitting at work. That is what happens when you use most of your days off early in the year. No regrets there. 🙂 But I cannot just sit at home and wait for everybody to come back. I want to have a…

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A weekend in Sørlandet

This weekend I have been visiting friends close to Arendal in the southern part of Norway. I have been to this region once before, but then I spend a rainy weekend in Kristiansand (not to mix up with Kristiansund – that is some 500 km north – so don’t program your GPS the wrong way!)….

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Kiev – Day 4 – Kiev

Monday, Mai 21 2018 One man down again. 🙂 The last evening was too long for Magnus. But the rest of us manage to get to breakfast at 10:30. A good breakfast is always a good start of the day. And what is the easiest way to get to a place in Kiev and the Metro is…

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Kiev – Day 3 – Kiev

Sunday, Mai 20 2018 Sleeping as long as possible we get up and down to breakfast at 10:30 with 30 minutes before they close. Nice breakfast. We are missing Lasse who took a late night – or should I say early morning. He is out of order for the moment. So we decide to give him…

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Kiev – Day 2 – Chernobyl/Prypiat

Saturday, May 19 2018 Early morning and we have to get up. The bus is leaving at 8:00 from the southern entrance of the central station. Breakfast starts at 7:00 and we were told we can be there a little bit early. The driver is ordered for 7:20. That should get us to the bus with…

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New Zealand – Day 23 – Singapore and a hop to Malaysia

Monday, April 16 2018 We landed in Singapore at 4:00 in the morning. The thermometer is already at terrible 27 degree C and it is said go get warmer over the day. The weather forecast also say that there is a high possibility for rain and thunderstorms. Sounds great. After finishing immigration (I was the…

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New Zealand – Day 21 – Wellington

Saturday, April 14 2018 My last full day in New Zealand before I leave tomorrow. So I want a little bit of a quiet day. Walking down toward the waterfront to get some caches and finally taking my geocache no. 1000. 😀 An Earth cache. No more caches in NZ, I am pleased with the…

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New Zealand – Day 20 – Wellington

Friday, April 13 2018 After a good nights sleep I finally get up to see Wellington. I have not planned anything for the last two days of my holiday, but I got some leaflet on theferry about walking tours through Wellington. This might be a good way to explore the city a little bit. Not the…

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New Zealand – Day 19 – Nelson to Wellington

Thursday, April 12 2018  Again a travel day. Getting all my stuff together, cleaning up the apartment and starting to walk into town around 8:00. I have enough time to get a breakfast and of course I go back to the Swedish cafe. 🙂 The bus leaves at 9:45. I get a mail from the…

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