Clarion Collection Tyholmen 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.

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.

JB wrote : I was shown into a beautiful chamber, where a fire was lit in the iron stove, and then left to enjoy a sound sleep until the morrow. On the following morning I was awakened by the entrance of the servant, who came to re-light the fire in the stove. As I lay contemplating this operation, the door again opened, and a mild inoffensive - looking man came in, and walked up to me. "God Morgen!" said he, and laid hold of my trousers, which hung over the back of a chair by the ...

I spent a lazy day meandering from Larvig towards Arendal. The geography is a lot more challenging than on the Swedish shore, and although I kept to the coast road I gave up any hope of seeing any of the particular sights (precipices etc) that he mentioned. Not least because the technology of road-building has moved apace and I don't know how much they used explosives to cut roads in those days. I eventually came to Brevig, where ...

... 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

Bababababa Nine more days to go. More things taken care of now; Finally bought the ticket after some trouble with the payment. I've also bought a new camera, quite a nice one indeed. And it's only my third digicam in 3 years! who's to say i cant take care of electronics :P I've also ordered a travel-guide for southeast-asia, highly recommended by asbj ...

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....

... Like buying a ticket, a camera, get my intl. drive's license, etc. And on top of that I'm working. Gettin pretty sick of ****ing artemia now. But they're paying for my trip, so I'll keep pretending to like them for now. Uje, gotta take a dump now, and get some sleep. 15 days till departure. adri

... in. One night Christian and I camped out and had the most amazing view of the sea with our camp fire and dinner of sausages, mashed potatoe and potatoe bread with tomatoe sauce and mustard - YUM - yes I am even eating sausages again and enjoying them. Sunbaking, walking, swimming... what a life! Other things I have done for the first time is shooting an air gun, I got 4 out of 5 targets on my first try and also I have tried roller blading with stocks - and ...

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.