Shorter & longer travels, mostly holidays…
The plane is booked & the suitcases are packed! Well, not quite yet, but we did decide on a destination for the summer holidays: Melbourne, Australia! This city is on a continent I haven’t visited before. I am looking forward to it, not in the least because I get to spend some time with Ellen …
As always in this time of year we’re trying to figure out what to do in those couple of weeks in the summer in which I’m not tied down to work. This year, among other places, Bath (UK) & a cruise passed through our minds… …until we both seriously started to consider going to Australia! …
Well, we made it back safely. It was a bit of a chaos at Oslo airport when we arrived (because of the weather flights to many other Scandinavian destinations were delayed or cancelled), but eventually we had our suitcases, dug out our car from under a week of snow, and headed home. I did not …
The trip is booked, and in about 6 weeks we’ll be off to one of my favorite destinations: the Netherlands! I know at least 1 person who is looking forward to our visit. My little nephew Jerro has his birthday while I am there. I guess I better find him some cool presents… 😎
Yes, you heard it right… Two brothers, Ralph & Michael Tuijn just rowed a boat from one of the Canary Islands to Curaçao! There they arrived today. It took them 3 months and they travelled 3000 miles… And this trip is actually only a ‘warm-up’ for their next trip: From Peru to Brisbane, Australia. An …
Row, row, row your boat, Gently down the… ocean?!? Read More »
Some people just don’t give a hoot about others when in traffic. I experienced a good example of it this afternoon, and also the brilliant countermove of the bus driver…! My bus had just switched drivers for its last stretch (the route is Oslo-Sarpsborg-Strömstad, with a driver-switch in Sarpsborg) and was about to enter the …