Saint Barthélemy
category: Travel
February 19th
I watched a show about the worlds most dangerous airports yesterday, and St Barts happened to be on that list. Not that the airport is dangerous in itself, but it’s a dangerous place to land. Mainly because of a very short landing strip – se the photo below.
One of my friends is currently at Saint Thomas, also a carribbean island. The fact that I envy her a bit doesn’t require a reason I would imagine.
Carribbean island when it’s best
The airport in St Barts is considering one of the most dangerous places for a plane to land
Photo credit : Saint Barths Villas, Barbour Spangle, Saint Barth Tourisme, Beach Vacation expert
Anja and I went to visit Stockholm on Tuesday. It’s my first time to ever see this city, and unfortunately we didn’t have a lot of time to see it. Well it might not be that unfortunate since it was pretty damn cold. I’d like to come back in the spring or summer someday, but probably mostly to see Gamla Stan. Stockholm doesn’t immediately strike me as my kind of town.
Travelling to the Maldives
category: Travel
February 1st
What better ways to enjoy a cold wednesday in the midst of winter, than by dreaming yourself away to the Maldives? Okay so someone might say that enjoying the snow outside might be a better choice. But I certainly won’t be the judge of that.
For those of you who are not so familiar with the Maldives, it’s an island nation in the Indian Ocean (South of India, East of Africa), formed by 26 atolls.
An atoll is a coral island (or islands) that encircles a lagoon partially or completely.
In my mind, the Maldives are as close to paradise as it gets. I mean .. Have you ever seen anything this beautiful? And if you can say yes, please do leave a comment saying where, cus’ I’ll need to research that place right away! It’s obviously not the mest price friendly place to visit, but you’ll definitely be given a trip of a lifetime.
It’s officially that time a year when the vast majority of my fellow countrymen, leave home to go skiing in France, Italy and Switzerland. I’ve only tried skiing once in my life, which is actually a shame – I sincerely believe I’ve got a nose for it.
I visited some place in Norway – and yes, how absolutely horrifying that I’m not even aware of the place I’ve been in Norway. I promise, that will never happen again - back in 2004 or 2005, along with my boarding school. We went up there in a bus, and back then even a short trip of about 20 minutes would make me carsick, so I was dreading it. My mom had bought some pills to prevent it, which resulted in me sleeping most of the time, and having an extremely dried out mouth when I woke up. When we arrived, the prettiest snow-capped area had appeared – it was indeed a beautiful sight, and I’m truly sorry that I didn’t have a camera back then.
2004/2005 was as told my first encounter with skiing, and I was quite afraid of really letting go. I’m a control freak when it comes to stuff like this, if I’m not in charge of the pace, I don’t like it, and then I won’t do it. Of course I know that if I’d get the chance to learn how to ski, I’d get more control and possibly be able to have more fun with it. However, I wasn’t actually bad at it, at all, I can ski all right, I just didn’t wanna take too many risks.
If any of you are going skiing, I hope you’ll get to visit one of these chalets below, or something just as amazing. They’re absolutely stunning!
A chalet, also called Swiss chalet, is a type of building or house, native to the Alpine region, made of wood, with a heavy, gently sloping roof with wide, well-supported eaves set at right angles to the front of the house.
Chalet Zermatt Peak, Switzerland
This $22 million chalet is up for sale in the Swiss Alps, and it’s even got a view of Matterhorn. (a mountain in the Pennine Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy.) I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen a house this beautiful – the windows really makes the difference don’t they?
In case you’ve got $22 million and not sure how to spend them, you can buy this chalet at Luxury Real Estate.
Spectactular train travels across the world
category: Travel
January 28th
My sister has been really good to me this week, feeding my Facebook wall with (always) much needed inspirational links. She obviously understands what’s my muse nowadays ;) The subject at hand was train travels across the world. Travelling by train is a great way to see a country since you get to cover a big area in a short amount a time, and usually areas you wouldn’t come across otherwise.
The Ghan – Adelaide to Darwin
The fact that I’m now familiar with The Ghan (Train ride from South Australia, Adelaide, to Northern Australia, Darwin) definitely makes me regret that I didn’t try it while I was there. But I was 19, I didn’t really know what I was going into, not interested in planning a whole lot – just wanting to experience something new. Can you blame me? However, if I ever get the chance of going back, I will most definitely take The Ghan across Australia.
But besides The Ghan, there’s so many other places you can experience a magnificent train ride.
