Fjallrevan Classic 2010

So I am here, in the far north, in the city Kiruna: 67° 51′ 0″ N / 20° 13′ 0″ E This means we are above the polar circle, in an eternally frozen country, where the summer is full of light, and the winter is darkness. I came here to participate in an adventure run called Fjallevan [...]

Europa on Rails

Back and forth with the Orient Express I am 34 years old. I have never ever been on a real interrail trip, with sleeping bag and foam matress slowly rolling and rocking trough Europe. Each year a new summer comes, the train stations fill up with young people with big backpacks and even bigger dreams. [...]

Distributed Agile

I know well what agile development is.  Nothing in the world gives better working environment for creating marvelous new systems, than a well formed XP team – your pair programming buddy will definitely tell you if you are on a wrong track. The atmosphere is great, the team is One. Match that with a rigoristic [...]

My Camino

We just got back home to Denmark after spending a month on the ancient pilgrim route to Santiago. The backpack sits in  a corner, not yet fully unpacked, a white conch proudly hanging on the side – somehow it is hard to understand that I reached my goal, finished the pilgrimmage tour, am back to [...]

Flying home … :-(

The departure day did come, and we had to go back home from Nepal. After 6 week of travel, just me and my kids, time to get back to the real life. Crammed into a bumping car, headed in the direction of Kathmandu Airport. All luggage, and ourselves carrying white silk scarfs for goodbye from [...]

Indian rail travel – Worst case scenario

I am travelling around South India alone with my 2 kids. It is quite fun and intensive. I would like to tell you about my worst case scenario regarding booking tickets. From home, I tried to book rail tickets for the train from Chennai (MAS)-Mettupaliyam (MTP) on the Nilgiri Express – an overnight train, and [...]

Hosanna Childrens Home for Orphans

Our last night in Mamallapuram we went to visit Hosanna Children home. We have brought a big bag of used childrens clothing from Denmark, and I also wanted to donate some money to the organization. I think handing money out to beggars, especially children, is an evil circle – but we felt obliged to help [...]

Have landed

Well we have landed – everything went surprisingly smoothly at the airport in Chennai – where is the befamed Indian beaurecracy? We were met at the airport at 2 am by Chandram, a taxi driver recommended by the owner of a coffe plantation in Coorg where we head next week -  even the megasized bag [...]

Last minute & visa trouble & orphanage visit

I look really, really much forward to visiting India. My family told me after the first encounter with Indian officials – “well, what did you expect”? When I send in our visa applications, I checked the box that we need a multiple-entry visa. When I got the passports back from the embassy, I saw we [...]

Single female rambling around India with 2 kids in tow

Well, the tickets are bought, visa applications sent – and we have had administered the needed shots. I am looking forward to my first trip to India, happy as a little kid … Very excited – this is an old dream coming true … but also as the departure gets closer and closer, starting to [...]