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And then the sun came out..
It's perhaps a bit unfair that I've had 'Rainy days in Brighton' on the top of my blog for the last few days. I've had amazing, summery days here as well, in fact more of the summery than the gloomy. The latter
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Rainy days in Brighton
Did I bring an umbrella? Nah, wouldn't have been much use in the wind anyway. A raincoat? Don't own one. Wellingtons? Would've taken up too much of my suitcase... But Brighton is pretty awesome on rainy days as well: especially when you can sit,
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A picture story, or why it's been a bit quiet here lately
I know it's been pretty quiet here recently, here's the explanation - mostly in pictures (note: a fair share of these are taken with my mobile phone camera, so not the best of quality, but click on them for larger versions). Last week I was racing
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The Post-Holiday Dip
Spanish scientists have found that long holidays are bad for you. They can cause a post-holiday syndrome which sounds rather like a powerful post-lunch dip but doesn't only make you tired, it brings on depression and anxiety as well. The findings might shed new light on why Norwegians
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Remember to be yourself today
This neon-blinking, talking escalator greets me every day when I arrive and leave the underground station closest to my current assignment. When I stumbled off the train yesterday morning it told me something in the vein of "I used to have nothing, now I have a garden full of
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The sea beckons
The Skerries - Stavern It's summer time in Norway: bet this place will be choked when I get there later in the day. Almost a third of the Norwegian population own or have access to a boat according to this article in Norwegian Dagsavisen. If another third of
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Leaving London
I left London just after the break of dawn, a wonderful time of the day to travel as the city is just starting to wake up and you get the streets and underground almost to yourself - give or take a few clubbers stumbling home and a few workers shuffling
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Summer at Trafalgar
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Welcome to Sweden...
we hope you have a pleasant stay, said the SMS I received from a Swedish mobile phone company the minute I walked off the plane. The only small catch was that the plane I had walked off was from Stockholm to Oslo and I had just returned to Norwegian soil
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Grand Place, Brussels
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All roads lead to Rome, but none out of Brussels
On Monday morning I found myself standing in the middle of scenic Belgian countryside: the only sounds to be heard were those of cows mooing. The problem with this idyllic scene was that I was supposed to have been on Brussels airport, checking in for my flight back to Oslo,