Travel

Really just notes for my own references of travels I've done or planning to do.

Tools

Travellogs

• Chris Guillebeau - Pursuing world domination
• Legal Nomads - Former lawyer currently eating her way around the world
• Road Trip Rally - Rally across the America
• The Adventurists - Adventures to be found in the world, check Mongol rally [1]

Exploration

• 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
• Twitter hashtag, e.g. #amsterdam for everything happening in that city

Flight - Norway

Only search for flights on Tuesdays after 15:00, the airlines are then done updating the prices after the weekend rush and competing airfairs

• 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 - Heatmaps created out of geotagged photos, useful to figure out the (more interesting) side streets
• reiseplaster.no - List of vaccinations for different countries, norwegian

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 May London - Surprise trip with friends
• 2009 Jul. Western Norway - Bergen, Hardangerfjorden, Sognefjorden, and old road over Lærdalstunnelen
• 2009 Oct. Oslo - Wozniak conference
• 2009 Dec. Berlin - CCC congress
• 2010 Jun. Denmark cycletour - North to south, 8 days
• 2010 Aug. Western/southern Norway - Twice, Lysebotn and Preikestolen
• 2010 Dec. Berlin - CCC congress
• 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
• 2011 Des. Europe - Paris, Le Web, and round-trip Brussels, Brugges, Zürich, Vienna (bit), Krakow.
• 2011 Dec. Berlin - CCC congress

Next travels

• Things to remember for next London trip Ask Slashdot [2] [3]:
  • Check some dj shops: Phoncia, BM Soho, Rough Trade
  • Bletchley Park, Enigma codebreaking + early computing
  • Science Museum
  • British Museum
  • Hummus Bros [4]
  • Just Falafels [5]
  • Adadgio Teas Regent Street
  • Mildreds Vegetarian Restaurant, Soho [6]
  • Spuntino, Soho - Eat around a big bar [7]
  • Cycle around Camden, Hampstead Heath, West End, Oxford street
• 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 [8]
  • Pick-a-peck - marinated carrots, asparagus, and green beans [9]
• Norway things:
  • Svolvær wedged stone [10]
• New York trip:
  • Gray's Papaya - Hot Dog specialists
• Wisconsin trip:
  • House on the Rock [11]
• Trip to Japan, Tokyo (English friendly japan):
  • Find a good apartment near a metro line
  • Akihabara, lots, lots of electronics shops videos of some of them
  • Tokyo tower
  • Shinkansen ekspress tog
  • Kyoto
  • Osaka
  • Green tea icecream
  • Eat on other than first floor, quieter, better food [12]
  • Midori Sushi, apparently best sushi restaurant ever, queue [13]
    • Shinjuku
  • Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium
  • Komeda Coffe - Lots of small dishes, nice atmosphere
  • Nekobukuro - Pet cats for a fee
  • Nagashima Spaland - Amazing park with lightshow at night
• 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 [14]
  • Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix - Mountain in the Mont Blanc massif, cable car from 1035 m to 3842 m [15]
• Trip to Spain:
  • Caminito del Rey - Old walkway used for maintenance of a hydroelectric power plant, epic heights and deterioration [16]
  • Basílica De Montserrat, Barcelona - nestling in the towers and crags of the mountain
  • Mercat de la Boquería - Large public market in Barcelone
  • El Teide, Spain's highest mountain [17]
• 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 [18]
    • Old Hutongs of Beijing - back lanes of the city
    • Made in China a.k.a. Grand Hyatt - Perfect Pekin' duck, reservation recommended [19]
    • Shanghai’s Wet Market on Lianhua Lu in the Minhang District [20] - Guide service [21]
• Trip to Canada:
  • Biosphère in Quebec - unique and spectacular structure [22]
  • Vancouver - Lovely city
  • Try Poutine - French fries and cheese curds [23]
• Trip to Switzerland:
  • Zermatt, hike up to Hörnli Hut, 3260 m, try the Goulash [24]
• Next trip to Amsterdam:
  • Cycle around the old town and the outer sticks
• Trip to Croatia:
  • Zadar - City on the Adriatic coast [25]
• Trip to Latvia:
  • Riga - Check out LIDO, marked, old town
• Trip to Kuala Lumpur:
  • Batu Caves [26]
• Utah trip:
  • Corona Arch [27]
• Colorado trip:
  • Uncompahgre Peak [28]