Since my last blog, we've visited Suðuroy (Southern isle) to both see the island (which is much less visited by tourists) and visit a metalhead that slept in the same cabin as Klas on the way here. It is always interesting to meet locals, of course, and this time we even got to borrow a car! So we went to see the place where they say that some "Turks" (actually people from one country or the other along the by Christians so-called Barbary Coast) were buried after they had come to get slaves from Suduroy, and then we went to Fámjin, [View Full Entry]

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Yes, we ended up at the Faroe Islands this year! I've been wanting to go here for quite some time, and then the occasion turned up to take the ferry from Bergen in Norway, so here we are. Today we mounted Satan. Actually, we went up the mountain Sátan, close to Leynar on Streymoy, the biggest of the Faroe islands. It's almost 666 meters high, and starting from sea level as we did, we had to climb every darn metre. But we conquered Sátan, while fending off his horned, evil, dark minions. But the day actually began with the bus to [View Full Entry]

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European Capital of Culture 2008? After a couple of hours on the oldest remaining railroad division in the world, we entered the Liverpool Lime Street station. During 2008, Liverpoool is denominatend the "European Capital of Culture". As a gothenburgian, remembering the strict prohibition of any construction project during the World Championships in Athletics 1995, I was very surprised to see that virtually the whole centre was a construction site! I read in the loca [View Full Entry]

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This time, we ventured into the North All photos by Skord As far as I've heard, the road signs don't say "Manchester" when driving from the south of England here, but they just state "The North". Sounds appealing to me, I must admit. Unfortunately (in many ways), we entered the country by Manchester airport, so I couldn't get any North signs on photograph. The reason for this trip was threefold: * A translators' conference (my reason) * Several interesting colonialism/slavery museums and places (my loved one's reason) * Holiday! (good reason) And sin [View Full Entry]

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This year's only proper holiday was spent in the Netherlands. Mostly Amsterdam, but whenever I tell people that, they just give me weird looks as if the only reason to visit Amsterdam was the smoky coffee shops and/or the famous district with colourful lamps. It's not, I can tell you. For one, I have relatives here, but there are also a lot of interesting places and a lot of interesting history here. But OK, I'll do my view of the views the newcomer in Amsterdam sees when getting off at the Centraal Station. It feels like there are a lot more [View Full Entry]

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First of all, I must apologize for not bringing a proper camera. My mobile is really shitty as soon as I'm not completely still and it's not broad daylight. So there are fewer pictures here than I'd hoped for. So, after two days filled with conferencing (at least they had good teas in the breaks and I avoided the cookies as much as possible ;-) ), I had one day left. Unfortunately, due to several things, but mostly that I had taken on a very badly formatted translation text the days before and during the conference, I now had to work [View Full Entry]

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So, I survived my first ergonomics and training workshop! There were actually about 30 persons attending, and the only backlash was the chairs: if you turned them backwards, you couldn't sit on them, which was the idea of one of the exercises. Ah, well, at least several persons came up to me afterwards telling me that it was both a good workshop and good exercises. Today, they had asked the hotel to lower the temperature, because yesterday, it was typically British: incredibly hot inside while raining outside. So today was really nice inside. The second big event for me today was [View Full Entry]

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So, I'm out travelling again. This time in business, I'm going to a translators' conference here in Edinburgh, the stunning capital of Scotland. Or, as a guy put it in a pub in Aviemore last time I visited this place: "Edinbrrrrh? Tha's a dump." I didn't feel like arguing with him at that moment. He was a bit too tall and drunk for that. and, I never found so lovely mushrooms (kantareller) as I did in Aviemore, so in a way, I guess he was right. So. I started out perversly early this morning, since I don't have a car and [View Full Entry]

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The New York trip - finally So, we left Detroit with an Amtrak bus to get us to Toledo. The train should arrive at about 10 p.m. In the end, we had slept the entire night on the couches at Toledo (at least they actually had couches and not only chairs or a stone floor), because the train arrived at about 6 a.m. instead. Of course, it got more delayed on the way, and arriving in NYC at 2.10 a.m., we were 10 hour late. So much for the Gary Numan concert we had planned to go to, just lucky we [View Full Entry]

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Together, me and Klas travelled by train thrice :-) during this trip: Klas from Ann Arbor to Washington D.C., and both of us first from NY to Chicago and then from Detroit to NY. The first time, Klas was delayed 4 hours and 45 minutes. He had then heard several stories both about how often the trains run late (22 % run on time, which means are at the most 15 minutes late...) and why this happens. Amtrak seems to be totally thwarted, I saw some numbers saying that up until 2006, Amtrak got several tousand dollars (I don't remember how much) [View Full Entry]

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