““Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to...”” We completely lost track of time this week. The other day we fruitlessly tried to calculate which day of the week it was. At the end we looked at our calendar and saw we were off by one day. It is such a liberating feeling not knowing or caring when you are. I’m not sure we fully knew where we where as well every time we when to bed. We surly didn’t know where we will be the next day. After finishing our last week (a week being 10 days in our case…) in northern Croatia we wanted ... read more

Hi all, We arrived and somehow a whole week already passed. Wow, how time flies! We started the week in a very outdoor mood. We hiked a few hours every day - carrying children on our backs - up and down hills, through valleys and forests. By the end of the week we crashed with a kind of tiredness that you can only feel by doing too much physical outdoor activity and sleeping away from your regular bed. Something akin to how you feel after a week of basic training in the army :) Also, similar to basic training is the fact that looking back at the experience, the stories can be told with increasing exaggeration for decades to come.... Before we get to the combat stories - first thing first - our trip preparations: Introducing ... read more

We don't usually enjoy traveling in large cities. If you read back on our travels we usually enter cities just to stock up on essential stuff as well as essential pleasure (you sometimes just HAVE to have a good meal and a latte) Some big cities are worthwhile to visit. Rome gets the taste-buds flowing, San-Francisco is pleasant, Hong-Kong combines the East and West, Jerusalem is truly the most beautiful city in the world, Berlin is so...well...German and Paris has that je-ne-sais-pas that makes it really romantic. I'm positive that living in these cities is an enjoyable experience that I would like to experience as well. However, visiting the touristic sites in these places makes me feel a little stupid by standing in the same place as 18 million other tourists that year taking a photo ... read more

Slartibartfast: "Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I think that the chances of finding out what's actually going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say, 'Hang the sense of it,' and keep yourself busy. I'd much rather be happy than right any day." Arthur: "And are you?" Slartibartfast: "Ah, no. (laughs) Well, that's where it all falls down, of course." From: Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy There are no straight roads in Norway. They all go meandering around some fjord, twisting around a lake or powerfully zigzagging up a pass. The roads are almost never level. They keep bobbing up and down. At one moment you are at sea-level and a few minutes later you are at a snowy mountain. Enter a tunnel and ... read more

Superman’s closet One of the good things about one of my recent business trips to Munich was that I knew about it ½ a year in advance so I could coordinate with my friend Ohad to join me at the end of the week for a few days in Austria. Clothes indeed make the man. At the end of the last day of the trade-show, with all the visitors already leaving the grounds and Ohad already on the way in the car, I went into a small closet. I took off my suit and tie and put on a worn out T-shirt. I replaced my dress pants with old travel pants. I changed my black shoes for hiking boots. I washed of the gel in my hair to let it expand in all directions. I ... read more