Wow what a year! So much has happened! 2014 was an utterly fantastic year. I visited Malta, the US, Russia, Spain, the Czech Republic, Finland, Latvia, Spain and of course Norway. Some of these countries more than once! In Malta I got to see artefacts older than the pyramids and experience beautiful landscapes. In the US I went venture capital fundraising in California and visited the inside offices of Twitter and even got to pitch to a person working in Mithril Capital, billionaire Peter Thiel’s (founder of Paypal) fund, walked past the offices of Mozilla, got an accidental tour of Google, and had a stopover at LinkedIn, ate clam chowder (again!), rode a bike over the Golden Gate bridge and (finally after years!) went to watch the incredible Wicked play in New York. In Finland and Latvia I visited castles, fortresses, went on forest hikes, and went to a countryside wedding. In Russia I went to majestic palaces and mountains. In Spain I visited the unique architecture and art of Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia and the sandy beaches of Alicante. In Czech Republic I re-visited the Charles Bridge, Prague Castle, saw the origins of Škoda in the town of Mladá Boleslav and ate tasty duck several days in a row. In Norway I went forest hiking and mountain climbing. There’s so much beauty and amazing things to see and learn in this world, yet the majority are more concerned with the trivialities of life.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Åndalsnes, Day 4 - Molde
This morning we caught the bus to Molde, famous for its footballing team as well as its views. From the top of Molde, varden, you have splendid views of the surrounding islands.
We were given a tour by one of our work colleagues who lives there. It was a pretty cloudy day so I didn't take that good a photo, but thankfully wikpedia has a decent photo. I can understand why he moved from Oslo to Molde, I mean frankly the city is nothing compared to what nature has to offer.
The area is in danger of a tsunami. Neighbouring islands will shift at some point, but apparently the situation is being monitored so hopefully when the time comes the evacuation will be successful, for lack of a better word.
We spent about an hour or two roaming around, buying "brus" which is a soda manufactured in Molde before catching the bus back to Åndalsnes and then the train back to Oslo.
Varden (Wikipedia)
We were given a tour by one of our work colleagues who lives there. It was a pretty cloudy day so I didn't take that good a photo, but thankfully wikpedia has a decent photo. I can understand why he moved from Oslo to Molde, I mean frankly the city is nothing compared to what nature has to offer.
The area is in danger of a tsunami. Neighbouring islands will shift at some point, but apparently the situation is being monitored so hopefully when the time comes the evacuation will be successful, for lack of a better word.
We spent about an hour or two roaming around, buying "brus" which is a soda manufactured in Molde before catching the bus back to Åndalsnes and then the train back to Oslo.
Monday, August 25, 2014
Åndalsnes, Day 3 - Trollstigen and Geiranger
The day after we were extremely sore but alive. We caught the morning bus to the troll's tail (Trollstigen) where we took a few photos. The stopover was short, only about 20 minutes.
Trollstigen, view from the platform.
By the time we left the view had descended to something out of the movie "The Mist", but without the horror. Another 2-3 hours on the bus took us to Geiranger.
Geiranger fjord.
Geiranger is the famous view which is pictured on every tourist book to Norway. Amazingly there were no Norwegians in the town when we were there, not even the people who worked there were Norwegian. Well, from a population of only 200+ can you blame them, I probably would escape as well. Anyway littered all along the sides of the fjord are homes, not used anymore, but back in great great grand daddy's days. Whenever the taxman showed up the owner of a house would simply pull up the ladder and hurrah, no more taxes :) Another interesting story that was told was that whenever the parents left the house, they had to tie the children to the windows, otherwise they could run around and literally fall into the fjord. Dangerous living. :) We learnt these stories on the fjord cruise, but not before having some lunch in a hotel. Of course there were also plenty of amazing views on board.
Later in the afternoon we some pancakes with strawberry jam, there's a Norwegian word for it which has slipped my mind for now, and then bought some chocolate shop that makes specialty chocolate. I bought blue cheese chocolate. Yeah. I know. And the people who served us were Dutch and Danish.
We left around 6pm and arrived back into Åndalsnes around 9'ish.
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