Traveling

17 July 2023

Back back on the horse

Long time readers of my blog might recall my post Back on the horse from 12 years ago. I recommend reading that post for some necessary background information on my history with horseback riding and owning my own horses back in the day. Well, by now it’s been a very long 24 years since I had my own horse, Daisy, and it’s been 12 years since I last rode a horse during the lessons I mentioned in my previous post on this topic. I didn’t actually continue to go riding at the place that I went to 12 years ago […]

12 September 2015

Five Places I Want To Visit

I love traveling, but one of the problems I have with traveling is that I can never really decide on new places to visit. In the past ten years, I primarily traveled to English speaking countries such as the USA, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, Australia, New Zealand and Malta – and to many of them, multiple times. In fact, I’ve actually only been to non-English countries four times in the past ten years, which were Austria, France, Sweden and Finland (let’s not count the day trips to the Netherlands for shopping). I’m guessing that is because I just love […]

5 June 2011

In the QI audience

I’ve been planning my current trip to London since January, so naturally I continuously kept checking out cool stuff do to while I’m there. One of the things I checked out was applausestore.com, which is a platform where you can apply for TV studio audience tickets. And I got extra lucky – after applying for the waiting list, the reserve list and the actual ticket list, I got a priority ticket to the show QI! Yay! Unless you’re not British or a total Stephen Fry fanatic, you might be thinking “huh?”. QI (Quite Interesting) is a panel quiz show hosted […]

13 March 2009

Your to guide to visiting Salzburg

Plan your trip in the summer or very close to it. I recommend sometime between May and September, because the weather will be much more rewarding in those times. While snowy mountains can look pretty, it’s more enjoyable if you can actually see them instead of them being hidden behind a thick wall of thriving snow. Also, walking through a rainy city is hardly ever fun, especially if you don’t have waterproof shoes. Another reason for planning your trip within those months is that a lot of tours outside of Salzburg are only offered in the summer. You will regret […]

27 August 2007

Stockholm and the Land of the Vikings

I have spent the last couple of days in the amazing city of Stockholm, Sweden. I went there on my own. Right before I left, not really knowing what to expect, I had a few paranoid doubts about whether I’ll like it there, whether I’ll be totally bored and just wanna go home. I wasn’t, instead I was completely overwhelmed by how beautiful that city is! Both Stockholm and Sweden are stunning and on top of that the weather was perfect (I got sunburned!). And everything is in Swedish! Swedish people everywhere! How exciting! Anyway, here’s my diary, complete with […]

30 March 2007

Everything you always wanted to know about time zones but were afraid to ask

Some time around last Tuesday or so I had this idea to make a wallpaper for my desktop that shows a map of the world divided in it’s time zones (having relatives all over the world and stuff like that). I’ve tried searching the web for something nice, but unfortunately I couldn’t find anything, so I just started doing it myself. I took a time zone map I found on the net and the started drawing paths of the time zone parts of the continents, and once that was done I drawed paths of the lines between the zones, and […]