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** The Great Dune of Pyla - Gigantic sand dune at the coast stretching 3 km [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dune_of_Pyla] |
Revision as of 23:32, 8 June 2011
Really just notes for my own references of travels I've done or planning to do.
Websites
Travel
- wikitravel.org - Lots of recommendations and listings of places to check out
- wikimapia.com
- 360cities.com - Get to know the places beforehand to save time navigating
Flight
- finn.no - Norwegian search portal
- ebookers.no
- restplass.no - Norwegian flight deal portal
- skyscanner.net - Combines independent flights into otherwise not obvious
- Website of airlines:
Hotel
- finn.no - Norwegian search portal
- expedia.com - Easy to spot deals
- tripadvisor.com - Great independent visitor reviews
- The website of hotel of interest
Other
- Eric Fischer - City maps created out of geotagged photos
Travels
- 2003 Sept. London
- 2007 Oct. London (FOWA)
- 2008 Jan. Newcastle (UFC)
- 2008 July. Western Norway
- 2009 Jan. Dublin (UFC)
- 2009 Apr. Cologne (Family)
- 2009 Jul. Western Norway
- 2009 Oct. Oslo (Wozniak conference)
- 2009 Dec. Berlin
- 2010 Jun. Denmark cycletour
- 2010 Aug. Western/southern Norway
- 2010 Dec. Berlin
- 2011 Feb. Amsterdam
Next travels
- Things to remember for next London trip Ask Slashdot [1] [2]:
- San Francisco trip:
- The Long Now museum - mechanical computing
- Apex Electronics, Sun Valley - Surplus electronics store
- TechShop - tinkerer's perfect playground
- Amoeba Music - Large independent music store
- New York trip:
- Gray's Papaya - Hot Dog specialists
- Wisconsin trip:
- House on the Rock [7]
- Trip to Japan, Tokyo:
- Find a good apartment near a metro line
- Akihabara
- Lots, lots of electronics shops, must see, videos of some of them
- Tokyo tower
- Shinkansen ekspress tog
- Kyoto
- Osaka
- Green Tea Icecream
- Eat on other than first floor, quieter, better food [8]
- Shinjuku
- Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium
- Komeda Coffe - Lots of small dishes, nice atmosphere
- South America trip:
- Rio De Janeiro
- Chile, Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert
- Trip to France:
- The Great Dune of Pyla - Gigantic sand dune at the coast stretching 3 km [9]