Arendal Maritime Hotel - Arendal

Early morning run in the country side around Amoy. Drove to Preikestolen and hiked it. The hike was billed as 2 and 1/2 hours but only took 35 minutes. Back on the road by early afternoon ending in Tromoy where my ancestors lived for hundreds of years. <br>

On our way at last! Having held the true destination of the trip a secret for my wife for quite some time now, she still has not a clue that we are not of to the Canary Islands. We cannot wait to see her surprised face when we tell her we are off on a cruise in stead. Still a bit wee early and thus tired, we are off to the airport in Kristiansand an hours drive away.

... in the country places, and not in large towns, where they expect people to get up and breakfast properly. So that now I had bidden farewell to that indolent practice, and was living in what we should call the usual English style. As to coffee, I never drank it so good in English hotels as in Norway, for there it is in perfection. I suspect the Norsemen are too honest and sincere a people to mix chicory with it: they hate shams of all sorts. Every one who knows much of them ...

... deaths is because these mass migrations may last many months and the lemmings become too tired to avoid cliff edges or swim when they normally could. Myths about lemmings go back many centuries, and in the 16th and 17th centuries there was much speculation in learned circles that lemmings were in fact spontaneously generated by conditions of the air. This was argued against, successfully, by the natural historian Ole Worm, who ...

... miss Hanne like crazy on this trip. :( But it's only 30 days. They'll go by in a jiffy! i hope... The guide i ordered from Lonely Planet is freakin awesome! Bars, accommodation, prices, transport, everything! Makes me feel a lot safer when Im about to embark on this journey. yeye, gotta pack my backpack now, leaving in 23 hours! :D

... Furthermoe, i've done a little more planning. Now it seems, I'll be etravelling around with the crew from Gjeving. This is because Joana, whom I was supposed to hang out with, can't skip schhol as much as she thought. Fine by me, more stuff to see and norwegian-style partying! btw, all this ******** i'm writing is just to test this blogg thingie :P

back to normal life.... I am now living in Drammen in my fathers house.... Working as a personal assistent... a nice job:) I'm missing all new friends all over the world, would like to go out travelling again.. but can't just leave work.. we'll see... maby I take a couple of weeks of to go back to Tapachula -mexico....

Yup, its official. Bjørnar backed out, and I'm all alone. Still haven't booked a ticket, but my departure date is set. At least in my head :P March 6th come to me! Thats when im gonna leave this godforsaken weather and head for the sun. I've still got plenty things on my to-do-before-i-leave ...

... barrow race, swimming races and a tug of war (which our side of the village won for the first time in a couple of years). We also celebrated Christian´s neices 13th birthday. We have done a lot of exploring of the local region by boat, it is a stunning area with beautiful cottages in mainly white, red and black right on the waters edge. Around 15 minutes away are rocky islands (called scurries) which have rocks to jump off into the sea and great bays to ...

Well, finally on Dec. 22 I got back home to Kristiansand. It's been really nice meeting my friends and family again, I even played a concert the 27th together with my brother and a hip-hop group called Darkside of the Force. The weather is almost unusually cold and the whole city (and country) is covered in snow. Even though it's freezing, it's kind of nice with snow during Christmas.