Trip summary: On this trip I travelled by myself from Aberdeen in Scotland to Istanbul in Turkey on a one month interrail pass. Countries visited: United Kingdom, France, Spain, Austria, Hungrary, Serbia, Bulgaria and Turkey Click here to read about this tripRead More
During my stay in Austria I went for a weekend trip to Maribo in Slovenia together with my Canadian friend who lived in Austria. The purpose of the trip was unclear, but we got the train tickets cheap through a ÖBB railway promotion, so we figured why not.. Maribo is not a busy place,...Read More
As a 25 years wedding anniversary celebration my parents had booked flight tickets to Faro for the whole family and rented a villa for a week in Luz, close to the city of Lagos. Most of the days were spent sunbathing and swimming at the beaches along the Algarve Coast. Out of the three...Read More
If someone would ask me if I would like to go on a trip for free, I would most likely say “yes”, but if someone asks me if I would like to go on a trip and get paid for it I say “hell yes”! My teacher asked me that last question, with the connotative...Read More
As one of the few Norwegians who has not been in Spain, I decided to go there with some cheap tickets booked through finn.no. The search engine makes sure that there will be enough transfer time between the different flights, but in the search of the cheapest tickets, it sometimes picks departures that are far...Read More
I´ve never discovered the geniousity of Ryanair before now. It´s noisy, small, crowded and it doesn´t allow you to bring a carry-on that is one gram heavier or one centimeter bigger than the limit, but it takes you from point A to point B safely and really really cheap. A one way ticket was 48NOK...Read More
As I had never been much further north in Norway than Bergen, and since it is possible to travel anywhere in Norway by train for 199 Krones(NSB Minipris), I had to pay a visit to Bodø. The end of November and the beginning of December is supposed to be the best time for seeing northern...Read More
Oops, it seems like I did not bother to write about my travels in this country, but don’t you worry. I will probably come back there sometime in the future, so stay tuned!Read More
Sometimes the things you want to do is not that unreachable. I managed to do two of the things I wanted to this weekend: visit the capitol of Sweden and couchsurf. A couple of days before I went, I had been on couchsurfing.com and gotten in contact with people living in Stockholm who had a...Read More
“Want to go on a road trip to Poland?” was the question that met me when I came late to a birthdayparty a couple of weeks ago. After five seconds of thinking, I managed to shout out an “of course!”, full of eagerness from the impulsive suggestion. Half an hour later me and my friend...Read More
As an attempt of lowering my spendings as a student, and to get more flexibility of where I am living, I have now moved into fully living in my car. The car is a big blue Ford Transit, that has got most of the things I need: a fridge, a gas stove, TV, a speaker...Read More
Romania is one of the two countries I have only visited on a family trip (the other one being Tunisia). The year was 1999 and I was there for two weeks, where we travelled with a chartered flight to and from Constanta. On our first days we did some sunbathing and swimming on one of...Read More
Tunisia is one of the two countries I have only visited on a family trip (the other one being Romania). The year was 1996 and we had booked a round trip to Sousse, which is a coast city in Northern Tunisia. The trip started like many other chartered trips, with some lazy days by the...Read More
Arenal is known as one of the biggest and most active volcanoes in the world, and attracts visitors from all over the world. A great way of seeing it in action is to go to Hot Springs Arenal, which is a water park with freshwater that is naturally heated from the volcano. The water park consists...Read More
For our last weekend in Costa Rica me and a group of people rented minibus and drove to Monte Verde, which is a small town up in the mountain jungles of Costa Rica. My main expectations for the trip was to go ziplining and to see a lot of different animals. The ziplining part was really...Read More
When I arrived at the bungeejump office in Costa Rica ready to do my first bungeejump I asked the question of what ways it was allowed to jump from the bridge. The answer “any way you want man” came as a surprise and made me think quite hard on what was possible. I knew that...Read More
About a six hours drive from San José, there there is a city known for it’s beaches and nightlife called Tamarindo. The city is right on the Pacific Ocean, and has great waves and is a popular destination for people who like to surf. Renting surfboards vary in price, but is usually around...Read More
After living in a Costa Rican family for about a week, I am starting to feel like things are becoming more of a routine, and everything is not new anymore. A typical day in a “Tico” family, usually starts with fresh roasted coffee, fresh bread from the bakery and usually two kinds of fruit(everything grown...Read More
When spending half a year living near the border of Canada I felt like it was almost compulsory for me to cross the border at least once, so this weekend that I spent in Minneapolis we took a daytrip over to one of the towns on the other side of the border called Thunder Bay....Read More
First off, I would have to share with you something that I learned just recently: The nickname of Chicago, the Windy City, does not come from the cold winds blowing from Lake Michigan. The Windy City refers to all the wonderful things that were said about Chicago all over the United States at the...Read More
