Destination: Norway
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Mon, 14 May 2007 | By crustyadventures | Views [2806] | Comments [1]
Oslo; first impressions. Green, calm and clean. It's so nice to have arrived at the Oslo airport which smelled of popcorn and looked like a stylish entrance to a sauna, all glass and wood and light. This was a contrast after the awful mayhem of ... Read more >
Tags: conference, oslo, the great outdoors
Wed, 22 Jun 2011 | By drmitch | Views [1318]
My ticket directed me to the "family car" of the train to Bergen
where I was the only passenger. I was a bit worried that I'd caught the
wrong train until the ticket collector came through and put my mind at
rest! There had been a fire ... Read more >
Tags: bergen, fjord, glacier, hiking, mt floyden
Sun, 19 Jun 2011 | By drmitch | Views [1130]
I had to get up stupidly early to catch the 6 hour train to Oslo, where I walked the 15 minutes to Anker Hostel . Once again it is more of a “hotel” feel than a hostel, with a
large waiting room, no kitchen but a hotplate in the dorm room, and very ... Read more >
Tags: akershus slott, bygdoy island, castle, fram museum, kontiki museum, maritime museum, nobel peace centre, opera house, oslo, vikings
Sun, 16 Aug 2009 | By utegute | Views [471]
The Karlsøy festival is a special occasion where we gather together to resist and oppose a society with values based on profit, competition and greed. The festival is a protest against razing of the rural communities, environmental destruction and ... Read more >
Mon, 8 Dec 2008 | By polargirl | Views [440]
At the moment all I seem to be doing is working like crazy and trying to get ready to go South. Today the(almost)last box of gear arrived and I'm now just making sure I have everything organised and then tomorrow evening I'll be battling with getting ... Read more >
Tags: snow
cold
wind
tent
Mon, 17 Jun 2024 | By kiwiaoraki | Views [333]
A land of art nouveau! In the first ever guidebook I glanced at about Norway, I noticed a city perched on a peninsula surrounded by blue sky and about the most spectular setting ever. Ålesund is where I had to be. I would often gaze at that ... Read more >
Wed, 22 Apr 2015 | By | Views [228] | Scholarship Entry
Travelling is one of the unusual experiences you encounter, especially when you travel to different continents and get to experience different cultures, believes and their way of living. I had an opportunity to travel to Europe to a beautiful country ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
Sun, 20 Apr 2014 | By | Views [196] | Scholarship Entry
It was a rainy day in the fall of 2011. It was that time between summer and christmas, that time when your days becomes a loop of the day before. Nothing new, school, work, sleep and repeat. We used to go out in the weekends but that too seemed like a ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Mon, 25 May 2015 | By ozedot | Views [192] | Scholarship Entry
My ears hurt and threatened to snap off. The tip of my nose shrieked with pain. Kirkenes was desolate and fiercely, colder than imagined. I spent a night here after disembarking from the Kong Harold. The focus of the trip was the Northern Lights. A solar ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
Wed, 27 May 2015 | By | Views [181] | Scholarship Entry
We were told at the tourist information that our hostel was about 20 minutes away. Considering the size of the town, I was surprised Flam had a tourist information office at all: a railway station, a shop, a pub and a few houses scattered around – that ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
Sat, 15 Aug 2009 | By utegute | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 5 Nov 2014 | By | 
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Hi everyone! My name is Nadiya Trach, I am university teacher of Ukrainian Language and Terminology Science in Kyiv, Ukraine. I travel a bit because of my job, visiting conferences and seminars in Europe and the US. Travelling gives me a chance to meet ...
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Tags: 2014 Travel Photography Scholarship
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 | By aurorahunt | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
My name is Esdras and I'm a 29 year old Italian, who was born in Brazil. I am currently living in Ireland.
Travelling is in my blood and I have moved house 17 times. This alone explains why I would love to experience an adventure to many different ...
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Tags: travel photography scholarship 2012
Thu, 5 Dec 2013 | By vagabondstoo | Photo Gallery
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