Hurghada, as it turns out, got better after a few days. Sure, it was still weird to have to actively ignore people yelling at me, but we did meet a bunch of Egyptians not interested in selling us stuff, and they turned out to be really nice people. There was the adorable gay couple living in the same hotel as us, the nice couple who went on a ( Read more... )

So far, Egypt has been a mixed experience. As it turns out, Hurghada survives mostly on tourism, which means that downtown and the tourist area where our hotel is located is filled with salespeople yelling at us and taxies honking just in case we didn't notice they were there. There are hardly any local women in these areas, it seems to be ( Read more... )

I'm going to Egypt the day after tomorrow. 45hasle found us reasonably cheap tickets and bullied me into actually going someplace on a whim rather than just complaining that I'm always too busy to do just that. I'm bringing my computer as a security blanket (and portable tv), but I'm not sure how much writing I'll be able to do whilst getting a tan ( Read more... )

Funcom is opening a new office in Montreal and 3ff3ct3r is moving over there for one year. Since I'll be done with my master thesis and not yet employed in Norway, I'm going with him! It feels great to know that I'll actually get to travel again, even though I don't really know anything about Canada or Montreal. But I'm sure it's a great city ( Read more... )

It was originally 3ff3ct3r's idea to go to "Sommarland," a low-budget amusement park with slides and horses, and play with all the stuff and ignore the kids there and pretend like there was no problem being a grown up who plays like a kid. I was of course completely ready to do that. But when we got there, the park was closed down. It turned out that it ( Read more... )

I'm back from my trip to Denmark. It exceeded all my expectations. I will tell you all about it as soon as I've wrapped my head around the awesomeness of a mini-bar crawl in Copenhagen, ice cream with "guf", swimming in the sea, urban exploring and beach side KunTao knife technique training ( Read more... )

During my not-so-brief period of finals craziness, I started obsessing over the fact that I've never lived anywhere but Norway. The natural question to ask myself was where I'd like to live, and a few countries stood out as either especially exciting to try living in (Spain, Cuba, the US, Russia), or surely undesirable (France, Finland, I'm sorry ( Read more... )

I've only just unpacked my bags from the larpconvention I attend almost every year and now I'm packing again. This time to go to Bologna with my mom. We usually take a trip together every other year and this time we decided it'd be to a place with a bit more sun and heat than Norway (even though we're not complaining about the spring weather here, ( Read more... )

Jeg har en venn som kommer til Norge for å være med på Knutepunkt og som har lyst til å se litt av landet i forbindelse med dette, men han har bare en eller to dager ekstra til å reise. Hvor burde han dra for å få sett sitat: "your beautiful fjords" og hvordan burde han reise for å få sett mest mulig for minst mulig penger ( Read more... )

So, good things about Amsterdam ( Read more... )