View from the ascent to Scafell Pike from Wasdale, overlooking Wastwater and the Cumbrian coast on the horizon.
This years fishing trip was destined for the Cumbrian mountains in North-Western England, making it the third of our fishing trips abroad, succeeding trips to the highlands of Scotland and to Connemara in Western Ireland. The original team was a bit reduced, leaving only Håvard (Nordvik) and myself. However, strengthened by Håvards student football team, “Pølsesnabbane”, we were far from being short of fishermen!
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Situated in the region of Northumbria between the Scottish border and North Yorkshire, Newcastle upon Tyne has a population of 266 000 inhabitants (2006) distributed over roughly 112 square kilometres. The settlement dating way back to the romans, the city owes its name to a castle built by the Normans in the year 1080. Locals refer to themselves as Geordies. Local eccentricities include the wearing of mini-mini-skirts outside in winter.
Final conference of the North Sea Cycle Route project
Good colleague and well-loved project manager Eli Viten brought me along to the final conference of the North Sea Cycle Route – Cycling On project. My role was to deliver a key note introdcution to the web site developed for the project by my company.
This project has been a great challenge both in terms of technical and practical issues. The concept of trans-border mapping in a seven country environment has taught me a lot. As has the task of developing a web site in a democratic, user driven manner aiming to serve 68 different partners of highly varying demeanor and hew.
London (England) 2005
A study trip in a standardization project brought me to London in the company of some excellent people with whom the evenings passed easily. This trip will reside in my memory as the trip when we ultimately ended up in seriously gay, non-hetero sexual venues every single night. Why? Nobody knows.
[ (Stein) Runar Bergheim, M. 7.Sat, ]
California Hotel on Belgrove Street has done it. It is much likely the smallest and least comfortable hotel room in the northern hemisphere. Owing to the gloomy atmosphere of Kings Cross Station after nightfall it can’t boast very impressive surroundings either. All in all a most unagreeable place; except for the wallet which might find it attractive – unless of course it is stolen by one of the many, many “small scale entrepreneurs” commonly seen on the street in this area!
Cranshaw & Edinburgh (Scotland), Dublin, Wicklow Mts & Port Laoise (Ireland)
As we drew nearer Cranshaw Farm Cottages, the amount of dead pheasants in the road increased inversely proportionally to the distance between the houses. In my mind dangerously close to the prefect setting, this was not the outskirts of nowhere – this was in the very middle! [Photos]
Scotland
As with most business trips there is nothing much to say about the contents of the days; they were mostly spent in meetings. The nights however; the nights were a completely different issue!
Duns
Starting off the meeting in a relaxed fashion we left Norway one day early to go down to Dave’s place near Duns an one hour or so south of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh
Ireland
Dublin
There is definitively something pleasant about Dublin. Despite the traffic jams and the large amounts of tourists it has managed to maintain some of its integrity by keeping it a city without a cityscape. Heather arranged accomodation for us somewhere which seemed to be equally close to Wales as to Dublin city centre; an excellent allthough slightly dislocated hotel carrying the unsuitable name Dublin City Holiday Inn
Wicklow Mountains
[ (Stein) Runar Bergheim, 4 . 2.Fri, ]
