In November I visited Tripoli in North Lebanon for the first time and it was a good trip. Living in Beirut with all its modern buildings, creative vibes and foreign branches and a whole lot of people who speak English and French better than I ever will you sometimes forget that you are in fact…
Last year I decided to make my move to Beirut and I haven´t looked back. So far so good, I really love it here. People are really friendly, the food is dangerously delicious, the contrasting scenarios are breathtaking, the narguileh smell around in fascinating cafes is seducing…in short, life is good here. The Lebanese capital…
Late August I went with my family for a relaxing weekend to Austevoll, an island outside of Bergen on the west coast of Norway where my parents have a nice, old cabin that is currently undergoing renovation. Getting away from the city is really great sometimes and your entire focus shifts from noise, cars, people,…
Being from Bergen I tend to stick to my usual places and not really “re-discover” my city whenever I am here. But seeing as I have been here for a few months without knowing whether or not I would be staying for much longer I decided to take the opportunity to check out new sites and…
There is plenty to see and do in Berlin. As I only had a few days I picked a few areas I wanted to get to know better and some sights, restaurants, shops and more that I could check ut. As it is fairly easy to get around I just went from place to place…
When I visited Tripoli I knew I had to stop by Oscar Niemeyer´s International Fair. This fairground was intended as an exhibition for futuristic modern architecture but was never really completed due to the civil war breaking out in Lebanon in 1975. Now it is mostly abandoned, that is if you are disregarding the occasional…
A 15 min drive south of Beirut you´ll find the village Ouzai. It might not be a very extraordinary place when you first spot it. As I would pass by from time to time while on the highway going south I never gave it a second thought. But one day my friends and I decided…
I went to Berlin the first and only time when I was 16 years old during a school trip but honestly I don´t remember that much. I just remember that we stayed in a shitty hostel with some weird graffiti on the walls, that we visited Check Point Charlie and that we passe by the…
Berlin, just like New York, looks really good in black and white. It just does. The urban setting, the buildings, the concrete walls, the rustic European facades, the narrow alleys leading in to big brick buildings, the little coffeeshops and the old subway stations.
As I had such a good time with my friends last year at the Vinjerock festival in Norway we simply had to go back this year. We got tickets but actually ended up as volunteers (btw, a great way to go to festivals if you wanna save some money). We therefore had a few spare…
I have just had the most amazing time in the Norwegian mountains last week, which included the Vinjerock Music Festival in Jotunheimen, 1060 meter above sea level. Before writing about my experience this year I though I should write about last year´s experience as well when me and four friends decided to head up to the Vinjerock music…
This week we escaped the city to for some hiking and cuddling up in my family´s cabin in the mountains of Norway. We got a ride all the way up and got to cross the Hardanger bridge by foot. I have never done that before but wow was that beautiful! Not only does the bridge…
Happy Pride, it´s been wonderful to see all the amazing celebrations around the world, including this weekend´s Pride celebration in Oslo. The victory in Germany where the Parliament voted to legalize same-sex marriage this week was also a great reason to celebrate.It´s almost like I´m a bit jealous of the LGBT community for having such a…
Paris! I have such a strange relationship with this city. The first time I visited I had just become a teenager. I loved it but then again I loved going anywhere as a child as long as it meant leaving the city and go somewhere outside the borders of Norway. Then I visited again on…
There is so much to see, so much to do and so much to enjoy in La Havana and with a good variety of restaurants, bars, cafes and sights to make sure you will never be bored in this city. Never heard of the Cuban cuisine? Well, neither had I…. I assumed rice and beans…
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