Category: Travel

  • 2022 and the Russian conflict

    2022 and the Russian conflict

    Hello friends, I hope you are fine and hunkering down safely at home during these interesting times. A lot has happened since last time I wrote in this newsgroup. It is really sad to see war and devastation again in Europe. Anyway, days are good here in Fredrikstad. Sun is shining and the beer is…

  • 2021 and the pandemic

    Hello friends, I hope you are fine and hunkering down safely at home during these interesting times. A lot has happened since last I wrote on this newsgroup, I moved back to Norway at the end of 2019 after more than a year away for working at a call center in Athens. It was a…

  • 2019

    2019

    Hello friends. The new year is almost upon us yet again and I thought it would be a great time to catch up with you guys. I hope you had a great time with your family over the last week, or if not that you still had a great time. The most important thing is…

  • Here’s to a great week

    Here’s to a great week

    I’ve just come home from work. The forecast for tonight says nineteen degrees and cloudy. And I’m feeling quite cold, out here on my veranda this early evening in Kallithea. It’s also been quite a while, nearly twenty years ago since last time I’ve felt this way, at that time while traveling around India, Brazil…

  • September is ending soon

    September is ending soon

    New times, new tides and less practical arrangements are all a reason to move on, or to return to the origins. The last three years I have stayed with a nice commune of free spirited friends in a great apartment in west end Oslo. But now it is time for me to move on again,…

  • A dark rainy afternoon

    A dark rainy afternoon

    Summer sadly seems to be over here in Oslo and now we’ll have to prepare ourselves for four-five months of rain and snow. I count myself lucky for working indoors and for example not in the construction business, poor guys. This fall I sold my apartment and moved into another commune again, I just couldn’t…

  • Summer 2014

    Summer 2014

    Summer is finally here again with longer days and wonderful radiation heat from the Sun. The last year since my last posting I ended up with hanging with my old friends again of course, but I try to not overdo the alcohol intake on weekdays. I have failed miserably a couple of times, and that…

  • Easter 2013

    Easter 2013

    Hope you all are having a nice holy week and that your Easter is being spent with the people you love. I am now nearly two thirds into a ninety day rehab program to try to change my life to the better, and to get back on track, and so hopefully back on the road…

  • Azores 2011

    Summertime in the northern hemisphere is here once again and I hope you have a great one. Here in Oslo life goes on after the downtown bomb attack and the following massacre of youth at Utøya nearly two weeks ago. This made a huge impact on the Norwegian people; and most people know someone –…

  • Back in Oslo

    Came back last Thursday, after four wonderful weeks on the Azores. I spent the last few days in Horta on Faial island before returning to Ponta Delgada to catch my flight home. This was a nice little town too, and my favourite hang out there was the Peter Sport Cafe. Also the most lively and…