Travel
From ivc wiki
Really just notes for my own references of travels I've done or planning to do.
Tools
Travellogs
- Legal Nomads - Former lawyer currently eating her way around the world
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:
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
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 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 [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]
- 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 [7]
- Pick-a-peck - marinated carrots, asparagus, and green beans [8]
- New York trip:
- Gray's Papaya - Hot Dog specialists
- Wisconsin trip:
- House on the Rock [9]
- 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 [10]
- Midori Sushi, apparently best sushi restaurant ever, queue [11]
- 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:
- Trip to Spain:
- Caminito del Rey - Old walkway used for maintenance of a hydroelectric power plant, epic heights and deterioration [http://blog.thecheaproute.com/guide-to-el-camino-del-rey-el-chorro-
- Basílica De Montserrat, Barcelona - nestling in the towers and crags of the mountain
- Mercat de la Boquería - Large public market in Barcelone
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- El Teide, Spain's highest mountain [14]
- 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 [15]
- Old Hutongs of Beijing - back lanes of the city
- Made in China a.k.a. Grand Hyatt - Perfect Pekin' duck, reservation recommended [16]
- Shanghai’s Wet Market on Lianhua Lu in the Minhang District [17] - Guide service [18]
- Beijing:
- Trip to Canada:
- Trip to Switzerland:
- Zermatt, hike up to Hörnli Hut, 3260 m, try the Goulash [21]
- Next trip to Amsterdam:
- Cycle around the old town and the outer sticks
- Trip to Croatia:
- Zadar - City on the Adriatic coast [22]
- Trip to Latvia:
- Riga - Check out LIDO, marked, old town
- Trip to Kuala Lumpur:
- Batu Caves [23]
