Holidayblog from Rhodes island

It's all Greek! Well, my blogging page was when I entered it anyway. Good thing I know where the login link is. Got it back in a language I understand now :)

Well, here we are, sat on a roadside cafe in Rhodes. We have spent the day in Lindos, which is about 40k from Rhodes town. Great little town, but really really hot. Also met up with Sharon from The Outdoor Group in England for a drink. Haven't seen her since before I moved back to Norway, so it was great to catch up! We have also been down to the beach here in Rhodes town, testing out the seawater. No complaints there!

Yesterday we had a look around the old town, and if you ever come here, I advice you to go there. Nice town with narrow streets. must be a nightmare in the tourist season though, with the shop owners trying to drag you into every single shop, and lots of tourists bumping into you. But it was great now, not too busy.

Before that we spent a day in Iraklio on Crete and on knossos. Iraklio is ok for a day, but not that much to do, so move on after that. Knossos was good, but very hot.

Tomorrow we've got the day here in Rhodes town again, to catch up on some of the stuff we've missed, before we catch the boat i the evening to the small island Tilos. Looking forward to a few relaxing days there on desert beaches and walking around in the countryside of the island, before we probably move on the the vulcano island Nissyros.

Really not missing work. This is great! :D

Greece!

My bag is packed and I'm ready to get on a plane to Greece. We're leaving tomorrow mid-day, and I can't wait. It was great to leave work for two weeks today!

Been a busy week preparing for holiday and working. Also went on a webcourse Thursday night to learn how to update our coming website for the scout district. It was nice and easy, and soon we will have a new website!

I'll be gone for a while now, but will be back with holiday stories and pictures when we get home.

17. mai

Another week has seen two days gone already, and it is 11 days left until we're on a flight to Crete looking forward to two weeks of island hopping. Would be nice if time went slightly quicker if you ask me...

The weekend just gone we celebrated 17th May. For the ones that have managed to avoid hearing about this day, it's Norway's constitution day. The constitution was signed 17th May 1814. The day is celebrated with children parades, Russ (not the Russ you know, but the ones about to finish school!) running about and generally being Norwegian whilst waving our flag.

We had champagne breakfast for Russ, Mo and two others at our house, before we left the house to join the rest of Norway in the streets of Oslo. Unfortunately it was a very cold day, with the thermometer showing +1 degrees in the morning. Brrrr! After walking around the streets watching people in Bunad (Norwegian national dresses) and eating icecream, we went back to ours for more cake and champagne. Later on we invaded Kaia's flat, and had dinner there. BBQ was kinda out of the question as it was freezing!

Monday nigh we had a girls night again, with only three of us this time. It was a nice quiet night with a lot of chatting :)

Sula

It's Tuesday today, and Witsun (Pinse in Norwegian) is over. We had a long weekend with a day off work on Monday too. We went to Langevågen on Sula by Ålesund for the weekend. A lot of my family lives there, and we spent time at my grandmothers and my uncle and aunts house. We also did a few walks around the island. On Saturday we arrived and went for a walk around a lake. Sunday we spent walking up a mountain, starting at 0 meters and got to 540 at the highest. In the evening we were invited for dinner at my Uncle's house which was nice :) Monday was lovely weather, and we did a couple of walks along the sea.

A taste of summer...

The sun has been out pretty much all weekend which has been great! We have spent the weekend doing quite a lot of active stuff, which has been good. Saturday morning we got up early and got the bus to Enebakk. After checking one of our caches and doing some maintenance on it, we stopped by T's parents house to make a packed lunch. We then headed off towards Høgåsen (high hill) to place a cache there. On the way we stopped to eat our lunch and enjoy the lovely sunny weather! In the evening we had a BBQ with T's mum which was very lovely!

Today we got up pretty early again as a result of going to bed pretty early last night. We went out and had breakfast in a cafe, sat outside enjoying it in the sun. I've also been on the Royal Icing course with Cacas today, which was good. I now know how to make icing decorations for cakes.

Another week at work starts tomorrow.... Not sure I am ready for it...

Mayday

Mayday mayday! Hmm... sounds like I'm in a plane that's about to go down, or in a burning boat. Well, I'm neither. It's 1st May today, hence the title. I've had the day off work which has been great. It's been spent climbing with Torkjel and Russ and putting photos in a photo album mainly.

The week has gone pretty quick so far. Monday I was working late, and Tuesday we spent the evening at Irene's. The twins celebrated their 1st Birthday, and we were invited. It was a great evening with happy kids, and nice people. Some of BE's friends were there too, and we sat for a while talking and eating lovely home made chocolate and marsipan cakes.

I realised yesterday that we've not eaten dinner at home for a long time. I've been working evenings and eating at work, or been away. Pretty much the same with Torkjel. Once in a while we've been eating out because of lack of time to do anything else. Best do something about that shortly!

There's only one day left at work now before the weekend. Looking forward to another two days off!

Geocaching - great fun and highly frustrating!

It's Sunday and dull weather, so we decided to take a walk around Oslo to find some geocaches. I spent a bit of time this morning finding the ones we wanted to take, and we set off, with the intention to be back home in time for a climbing session in the afternoon/evening.

Well, how wrong can it go? The first one we got to we couldn't find, followed by two easy ones. After that we got to the new Opera house. No luck there either, due to stupid amounts of people, or mugglers in geocaching language... Once again we had to mark as not found.

The next one was once again stupidly easy, and I found it straight away. We then went to Stortinget, where we looked for the cache for some time without any luck. The next one we knew was not going to be easy, so we had prepared ourselves looking at logs etc, but still no luck! Think we spent 45 minutes looking for it!

The last one of today we've tried to find before, and we actually managed today! So in total we found four out of eight caches. I've added a screen shot of todays walk. It might not have helped that the GPS wasn't cooperating.... The yellow dots/line shows where we have walked. And as you can see, we have become very good at jumping far! Hehe.

So that's todays update about geocaching. I'm sure this isn't interesting for the majority of you, but if you fancy taking a look at what this thing is, see www.geocaching.com or www.gcinfo.no in Norwegian.