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My Cruise ‘Office’ for the Day
Looking out a big window overlooking the sea while in a nice business class seat — not a bad place to ‘office’ for the day. I’m on a multi-week client trip in the south of Norway in the dead of January and wanted a way to see more of the area yet still get some…
Travelanche!
Yes, this was a Travel Avalanche. I have pretty good travel karma but it caught up to me on a recent trip. While I blogged about it here for my trip from Norway to Colorado Springs and here for the return trip, Joe Sharkey of the New York Times felt there were some lessons to…
BAcon — I’m Trying to Get to You, Really I Am!
My trek to Colorado Springs for Boarding Area’s BAcon conference is going to be an interesting case of planes, trains and automobiles. Wideroe, a regional airline in Norway and the largest regional airline in the Nordic countries, went on strike today. The strike is expected to continue for the next day or two. (This just happens…
Flight Delay? Here’s a Solution that Hopefully Repeats Itself!
A flight delay that actually worked out well? Yes, it does happen! On my overnight flight to Norway connecting in Copenhagen, the fog was amazingly thick as we landed. The aircraft has a webcam and we can see the landing strip as we descended. Or not see the landing strip, as the case was today.…
Summer Season in Kristiansand, Norway
Business has been bringing me to Kristiansand, Norway this year. It is now the high summer season in Kristiansand and the area is full of vacationers (or are they called holiday’ers since this is Europe?), most from other parts of Norway, who head to the southern part of Norway for their summertime holidays. Enjoy the…
Rainbow in Kristiansand, Norway
I love rainbows! And I love seeing them all over the world. Here is a view of tonight’s full rainbow from Kristiansand, Norway. It’s very rare to spot both ends of the rainbow. I didn’t know which pot of gold to go after, so instead just took photos of the beauty. Order now! Business Travel…
Hotel Room Challenges . . . And the One I Lost
One of the many challenges of travel is to figure out how things work in different environments. In a hotel room, we need to figure out how to turn on and off the lights, how to change the temperature, how to work the coffee pot, turn on the television and turn on the shower. Sometimes…