Travel
From ivc wiki
Really just notes for my own references of travels I've done or planning to do.
Tools
Travellogs
- Chris Guillebeau - Pursuing world domination - twitter @chrisguillebeau
- Legal Nomads - Former lawyer currently eating her way around the world - twitter @legalnomads
- Everything Everywhere - Travel adventurer posting daily photography - twitter @everywheretrip
- Road Trip Rally - Rally across the America
- The Adventurists - Adventures to be found in the world, check Mongol rally [1]
- EatingAsia - Travel writer and photographer exploring food in Malaysia, Pengang, Thailand
- gadling.com - Passionate travelers and writers, Huffington Post subsidiary
- A Little Adrift - List of RTW travel logs
- What's Dave Doing? - Traveller and backpacker for a decade
- The Aussie Nomad - Living and working the world over
- Mature Traveler - Captivating tails from China, Nepal, India, Malaysia and more
Adventure ideas
- gadventures.com - Offers tours and adventures in all regions of the world, good for inspiration
- Most exciting city destinations - List of the top 50 travel destinations, annual awards [2]
Exploration
- wikitravel.org - Lots of recommendations and listings of places to check out
- maps.google.com - Explore cities using street view
- 360cities.com - Get to know the places beforehand to save time navigating
- tripadvisor.com - Reviews and discover places where to go
- Rough Guides - Alternative to the other travel guide series
- Lonely Planet - Legendary travel guides, use as indirect reference for exploration
- Twitter hashtag, e.g. #amsterdam for everything happening in that city
Flight - Wordwide
Use a well known airliner for continental flights and low price domestic airliners for shorter hops around the continent or country.
- airninja.com - Instantly figure out all the low-cost airlines covering a flight or region, perfect for city hopping [3]
- skyscanner.net - Combines independent flights into otherwise not obvious ones
- hipmunk.com - Map-based interface with color-coded bar graphs to find the ideal flight
- 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
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 - Search for flights
- restplass.no - Norwegian flight deal portal
- Website of airlines:
Resources
- worldnodmads.com - Advice on safety, insurance, questions and answers, other handy tips
- apotek1.no - Map overview and list of recommended vaccinations for different countries (Norwegian)
- whatsdavedoing.com - Excellent advice for backpacking in South-east Asia
Gear/packing
- Legal Nomads Jodi's travel packing list
- Answering Oliver RTW packing list
- G and Q's RTW trip
- No luggage RTW trip packing list
Budget
- greatfamilyescape.com - Collection of travel budgets
- legalnomads.com - Another list of travel budgets, lower on the page
Hostel/Hotel
- finn.no - Norwegian search portal
- expedia.com - Easy to spot deals
- tripadvisor.com - Great independent visitor reviews
- hostelworld.com - Easy to read overview of hostels in a city/country, use in conjunction with TripAdvisor
- The website of hostel or hotel of interest
Apartments/bed
- airbnb.com - Global community for sharing a space to stay
- homeaway.com - Similar to AirBnB [4]
Apps
Handy apps to get around, explore a location and keep in touch.
- TripAdvisor City Guides - Get offline version of major cities
- Tripso - Retrieve collection of travel information from Wikipedia, Wikitravel, World66 and other sources
- Hipmunk - Find the trip with the least hassel
- Google Maps - Extremely handy, in situations with wifi access (expensive over cell network)
- Photosynth - Create panoramas in a fling
- yr.no - Graphical weather details for any location
- DropBox - Access your travel notes and key information quickly
- Skype - Free calls over the Internet to other Skype users
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 event
- 2008 July. Western Norway - Hardangerfjorden, Songefjorden, Jotunheimen, Geiranger, and Trollstigen
- 2009 Jan. Dublin - UFC event
- 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, fighting seminar
- 2011 Jul. Western Norway - Kjeragbolten and Preikestolen
- 2011 Jul. Gaustatoppen - Highest mountain in the southern part of Norway
- 2011 Des. Europe - Two week exploration of Paris (Le Web event) and round-trip of Brussels, Brugges, Zürich, Vienna (transit) and Krakow
- 2011 Dec. Berlin - CCC congress
Next travels
- Things to remember for next London trip Ask Slashdot [5] [6]:
- DJ shops - Phoncia, BM Soho, Rough Trade
- Bletchley Park - Enigma codebreaking and early computing
- Science Museum
- British Museum
- Hummus Bros [7]
- Just Falafels [8]
- Adadgio Teas Regent Street
- Mildreds Vegetarian Restaurant, Soho [9]
- Spuntino, Soho - Eat around a big bar [10]
- Cycle around Camden, Hampstead Heath, West End, Oxford street
- United States trip:
- Route 66 - Original highway from Chicago to Los Angeles
- California trip:
- Pacific Coast Highway [11]
- 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 [12]
- Pick-a-peck - marinated carrots, asparagus, and green beans [13]
- Computer History Museum, Mountain View - not your regular type museum [14]
- Norway things:
- New York trip:
- Gray's Papaya - Hot Dog specialists
- Wisconsin trip:
- House on the Rock [17]
- 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 express train
- Kyoto
- Osaka
- Green tea icecream
- Eat on other than first floor, quieter, better food [18]
- Midori Sushi, apparently best sushi restaurant ever, queue [19]
- 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
- Trip to Chile:
- Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert
- Las Barrancas, Coquimbo Region - Desert by the ocean [20]
- Trip to France:
- Trip to Spain:
- Caminito del Rey - Old walkway used for maintenance of a hydroelectric power plant, epic heights and deterioration [23]
- 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 [24]
- 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 [25]
- Old Hutongs of Beijing - back lanes of the city
- Made in China a.k.a. Grand Hyatt - Perfect Pekin' duck, reservation recommended [26]
- Shanghai’s Wet Market on Lianhua Lu in the Minhang District [27] - Guide service [28]
- The Bridge of Immortals, Huangshan, China [29]
- Beijing:
- Trip to Canada:
- Trip to Switzerland:
- Next trip to Amsterdam:
- Cycle around the old town and the outer sticks
- Trip to Croatia:
- Zadar - City on the Adriatic coast [34]
- Trip to Latvia:
- Riga - Check out LIDO, marked, old town
- Trip to Kuala Lumpur:
- Batu Caves [35]
- Utah trip:
- Corona Arch [36]
- Colorado trip:
- Uncompahgre Peak [37]
- Trip to Bulgaria:
- Trip to Sabah:
- Trip to Singapore:
- Trip to Australia:
- Uluru - large sandstone rock formation in the middle of the country
- Trip to Sidney:
