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Archive for February, 2007

24 Feb

The Great Whiteout

Here I am, southern Norway, and its snowing. Snowing and snowing and snowing… Hasn’t stopped all day. From last night’s meal with the landlord and his wonderful wife, I had learnt that this snow was the result of a high stalling over Siberia and the lows were just slipping round it and dumping all their [...]

23 Feb

Drive south – into the snow???

The day started off snowing – nothing new there as it had been snowing ever since I arrived in Norway. However today I was to drive south to Arendal and from all reports, it was snowing even more down there…
After getting provisions I was in my truck the journey began – me following someone else [...]

21 Feb

Winter – at last!

Tis odd to be travelling to winter at a time most people are probably fed up with it, but yesterday I flew from the balmy warm temps of around 9C to minus 7C – and crossed from an land where flowers were just starting to bloom (probably as they had given up on the ‘winter [...]

11 Feb

Under constant surveillance…

Thank goodness I don’t work in the UK nor aspire to spend any great duration of my life here in the future…. I think the endless plots to monitor every aspect of our lives is eroding my sense of privacy and well, making me feel disturbed – and angry more than anything. Its just [...]

09 Feb

Don’t rush to Windows Vista – plenty of annoying features and problems!

OK, I know this has NOTHING (or very little) to do with travel, but in a way it does – but I have to WARN people of the perils of Windows Vista if thinking of upgrading – WAIT! I don’t doubt in the end, it will be good, but by golly, I’m fast finding out [...]

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