Travel

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
• tripadvisor.com - Reviews and ideas where to go

Flight - Norway

• 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:
  • Norwegian
  • KLM
  • RyanAir
  • SAS

Flight - Wordwide

Use a well known airliner for continental flights and low price domestic airliners for shorter hops around the continent or country.

• expedia.com - Search for single or return flights, deals
• orbitz.com - Option for multi-city flight search
• travelocity.com - Combine multi-city and airline flight, save money
• kayak.com - Flight search, map explore feature to discover price differentials, car rental search

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 - Trip with friends
• 2007 Oct. London - FOWA conference and Diggnation show
• 2008 Jan. Newcastle - UFC show
• 2008 July. Western Norway - Hardangerfjorden, Songefjorden, Jotunheimen, Geiranger, and Trollstigen
• 2009 Jan. Dublin - UFC show
• 2009 Apr. Cologne - Family
• 2009 Jul. Western Norway - Bergen, Hardangerfjorden, Sognefjorden, and old road over Lærdalstunnelen
• 2009 Oct. Oslo - Wozniak conference
• 2009 Dec. Berlin - CCC conference
• 2010 Jun. Denmark cycletour - North to south, 8 days
• 2010 Aug. Western/southern Norway - Twice, Lysebotn and Preikestolen
• 2010 Dec. Berlin - CCC conference
• 2011 Feb. Amsterdam - City centre, combat seminar
• 2011 Jul. Western Norway - Kjeragbolten and Preikestolen
• 2011 Jul. Gaustatoppen - Highest mountain in the southern part of Norway

Next travels

• Things to remember for next London trip Ask Slashdot [1] [2]:
  • Check some dj shops: Phoncia, BM Soho, Rough Trade
  • Bletchley Park, Enigma codebreaking + early computing
  • Science Museum
  • British Museum
  • Hummus Bros [3]
  • Just Falafels [4]
  • Adadgio Teas Regent Street
  • Mildreds Vegetarian Restaurant, Soho [5]
  • Spuntino, Soho - Eat around a big bar [6]
• 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
  • Highway 1 - road close to the coast, lots of cliffs, best south of Carmel [7]
• New York trip:
  • Gray's Papaya - Hot Dog specialists
• Wisconsin trip:
  • House on the Rock [8]
• 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 [9]
  • Midori Sushi - Best sushi restaurant ever, queue [10]
    • 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 [11]
  • Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix - Mountain in the Mont Blanc massif, cable car from 1035 m to 3842 m [12]
• Trip to Spain:
  • Caminito del Rey - Old walkway used for maintenance of a hydroelectric power plant, epic heights and deterioration [13]
• Trip to China:
  • Beijing:
    • (Tourist traps) Forbidden palace and Tiananmen square, the temple of Heaven and the beautiful Beihai park, the Great Wall at Badaling [14]
    • Old Hutongs of Beijing - back lanes of the city
    • Made in China a.k.a. Grand Hyatt - Perfect Pekin' duck, reservation recommended [15]
    • Shanghai’s Wet Market on Lianhua Lu in the Minhang District [16] - Guide service [17]
• Trip to Canada:
  • Biosphère in Quebec - unique and spectacular structure [18]
  • Vancouver - Lovely city
  • Try Poutine - French fries and cheese curds [19]