Rock music is alive and kickin' in London, but not after 10:30 PM London is a city we both are very fond of but it was a very long time since we were there last time. It was six years ago since any of us last visited Britain. But this summer we decided it was time to visit United Kingdom again. (Now read using the voice of the narrator in Little Britain) "Britain, Britain, Britain. How much we have missed you. Britain, the country where people drive on the left side of the road. Britain, the country where it is perfectly natural to walk indoors with your shoes on. Britain, the country where they use the classic units of inches, feet, yards, pint and stone instead of meter, kilo and litre. Britain, the country where 'breakfast' ... read more

Sri Lanka On this trip we divided our time equally between the Maldives and Sri Lanka. The former half of the trip we wrote about in our previous blog entry. Now we are going to write about the latter half. In the Maldives we really wanted to go on an excursion to see whale sharks and manta rays. The whale sharks are the largest fish on earth. It would have been really cool to see them. Unfortunately there was no tour on the days we were at the resort so we never got to see the largest fish on earth. All we saw were some sardines swimming in the coral reefs close to the resort. When we came to Sri Lanka we, since we missed out on the opportunity to see the largest fish on earth, ... read more

Particle accelerators, jet fountain and Freddie Mercury Over the years we have probably met hundreds of people who think we are from Switzerland. People seem to have a problem with telling the difference between Switzerland and Sweden. So, only to confuse people even more, Ake decided to visit Switzerland for a few days this winter. A Swede going to Switzerland. That, if anything, is going to confuse people. Most of the time I was in Switzerland I stayed in Geneva in the far west of the country. I have been thinking about going there for several years. The reason is in Geneva you can visit the nuclear research facility CERN and that is a physicist’s wet dream. If you have no interest in visiting CERN then Geneva has very little to offer when it comes to ... read more

The Rocket, palaces and two world heritage sites This blog entry is about the second half of my journey in Bangladesh. If you would like to read about the first half but haven't yet you can follow this link. First I'd like to write a little about the traffic in Bangladesh. If I am to describe the traffic in Bangladesh the first word I come to think about is 'nightmarish', and after that the words 'noisy', 'crowded' and 'scary' come to mind. A bus ride could be described as a series of chicken races while honking the horn like crazy. To give you an idea of what it is like I have shot a short film from inside a car. The film is really bad, I know, but it really is the sound that is important ... read more

Balconies en masse OK we admit that cheat a little bit this time. Most of the text, and it isn't much, we have simply copied from a blog entry we wrote last year. But we spend so much time writing all the other blog entries that once in a while we think we can allow ourselves to put together one without effort. When we were in Tbilisi we walked through the streets and we were surprised over how many different styles of balconies they had in town. We started taking photos of them and the more we looked for balconies the more interesting they became. After a few hours we had quite a collection of photos of balconies. When we started this blog in 2006 the main purpose was to make it possible for us to ... read more