Posts Tagged as ‘Travel’

June 1, 2009

Air France jet vanished at sea

Today we learned that Air France lost contact with an Airbus A330-200 on a non-stop fllight between Rio De Janeiro (SBGL) to Paris (LFPG). I am sure you are on it as well.
So far they have not found the plane or the wreckage, but some are hoping for a miracle landing in the ocean with [...]

August 5, 2008

Sailing from Bergen to Stavanger

We have now completed the trip from Bergen to Stavanger in the sailboat. My dad lives in Bergen and works from time to time in Stavanger, and he decided to sail his boat down so he could use it while being in Stavanger.
Read all about it here.
The day after we arrived Stavanger me and my [...]

July 3, 2008

Spitsbergen travel!

Spitsbergen is a Norwegian island, the largest island of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
The name Spitsbergen means “jagged peaks” and was given by the Dutch explorer Willem Barents, who discovered the island while searching for the Northern Sea Route in 1596.
The Norwegian government has built a “doomsday” seed bank to store seeds from [...]