New look and concept

Hello friends, are you there?

It has been forever and I am back, again. I thought I should not show up here at all, since that I left this page for so, so, so incredibly long time ago. I am guilty, alright? There, at least I admit it and I am terribly sorry...

I have been busy with the school and all the exams that are coming up one after another. Time just flies away like there is no tomorrow! I thought the other day that it was still September, since that we have not got any snow in Oslo this year yet. Who is to blame, the cows? Think again. It is us. The human beings. You say you disagree? Let us discuss that in private, ok?

Soo, back to the topic. The weather has been really strange compares to the last year. In November last year it was -20 Celcius outside, plus freaking darn cold wind! Oh yeah, it is true. I lived in Norther-Norway for 10 years and I have never experience such a cold weather as in Oslo, which is located in Southern-Norway. Well, at least it was right of me to escape to Switzerland for Christmas last year... But this year it rains in November, we got a storm called "Berit", which made the water level even higher... Not so long ago we all have heard about the extreme flood in Thailand, right? Maybe we are soon going to be washed away...
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Or can we stop it? How? There is only an answer for that, and you all know: GO GREEN! I did not mean that you literally should go and paint yourself green... What I meant was, save the energy and water. Shut off the lights when you leave a room. Plug off electronic stuffs, when you are not using them. Shower or take a bath together, it is not just romatic(or it depense who you shower with...) but it is also good for the enviroment. Buy ecological and fair trade food. Reduce eating all kinds of meat. Drop McDonalds, Burger King and other fast food restaurants, they do not only make you fat, but you know yourself that you should be healthier. Use the public transport instead of using your own car, you will save the money for gas, and also you wil get exercise when you run like crazy to reach the subway, bus, or whatever you have in you living area. There are amazingly enough many things you can do to go green and it is easy as putting your socks on! Why waiting? Let's go green together!

Alright, enought about "that thing that I like to talk about". As you can see I have changed the site's web-address and also the design. The header is made by myself, those pictures were taking in the summer 2011, when I was on the Interrail trip with my beloved friends. The pictures are taken by my best friend, Solfrid. Thanks to her I can create my own header! So this blog's name is "Another Travel To Share", which means that I also have a new concept of this blog. I will only post about my travels that I would love to share with you, I will drop the preparing for the travel part, unless they are extremly important. I still share you my tips, recommendations and all that fun stuff I do on the travel. I will use my nickname instead of "Dancerwithoutshoes" from now on, because I do no longer dance... (Long live the lazyness!)

I have leaned from the study that a travel is not just a travel abroad. It can be a travel in your own country or just the living area. It can also be that day you visit the park nearby. It does not nessessary mean that you have sleep in a hotel for a night to call it travel. If you go away just for 4 hours to the park to get som D-vitamin, it counts as a travel too. So, the good news is... I will share with you my visit to the Vigelandsparken this Autumn! Coming soon!

-Patch

Tourists: Roles and typologies

SO SORRY for being gone for so, so, so long time(again!). I have been busy. And you will soon know why...

Since August I have chosen to right study for me and I knew that for quite a long time a go. How could I know before I started, you may ask? Well, if I would not liked the study, this blog would not even existed.

Have you got an idea of what I study? Tourism, readers, tourism.

This far it has been very interesting and funny to study tourism. Right now I and two other girls from my class are working with an exam assignment, or whatever I should have called it. It is like a group exercise, which counts 40% of your mark. The other 60% is from the individual exam, which will take place in the end of the semester. Anyways, the assignment that we are working on is quite enjoyable. We have to pick one of the typologies of tourists and an attraction in Oslo. In two weeks, this assignment has to be finished and handed in...

I promise you guys to come back soon with a good news! In mean while, watch this awesome vdo of Matt, how dances in different places of the world. Every time I watch the vdo I have the biggest smile on my face, always. Therefore I wanted to share this with you. Enjoy!

I better get in bed and rest... See you soon!

-Dancerwithoutshoes

Things you need on an Interrail trip

If you are going on an Interrail trip, there is a limit of things you can take with you. Firstly, you have to be able to carry all of your stuffs by yourself. Secondly, it is always an good idea to have some space in your luggage for the survenirs or such.

Of course you have to pack your clothes, sleeping bag, blanket, towel and all your toiletries. Exept from all that you need(click on the picture to enlarge):

Inflatable cushion, a pocket book, a padlock, play cards(I have Skip-bo), a belly-bag(I do not know what it is called in English), Interrail pass, dry shampoo, contactlense solution(if you use contactlenses), contactlenses, flash light, sun screen with high SPF, tiger balm, band-aids, disinfection gel, pocket tissue, pain-killers, pocket mirror, tweezer, sun glasses, glasses(if you normally use them), tooth brush, tooth paste, world adapter, charger to your camera, mobilephone etc., hat, caps, bikini, rain coat/jacket, passport, flight tickets, a pocket notebook, a pen and a magazine. I added a little panda bear in my luggage, because I am going to miss my boyfriend so terribly!

I am used to travel with suitcase, but on this trip I am going to carry a bag, which is half as big as I am! I will carry it in 2 weeks. I guess it is going to be really exhausted, but very interresting in the way.

I am ready to go. What about you?

Oh, and one more thing I just forgot: GOOD SHOES! You never know if you are going to walk a lot or not, but it is always good to be prepared for that!

Let's rule the Interrail! When I am back, I will tell you about our trip. Keep following!

-Dancerwithoutshoes

Preparing for Interrail

After a year of talking and thinking about an Interrail trip, I and my girls finally decided to make it all come true. We have been planing in almost a year, not everyday of course, but still it counts.

Our very first Interrail journey starts in Warzawa, Poland and our final destination will be in Budapest, Hungary. So we have set up a plan of which country we would like to visit during 14 days. Exept from these two countries I just mentioned, we are going to visit Czech Republic and Slovakia. We will visit the capital cities and other places in these four countries.

To get more information about Interrail you can check its web-site here! If you want to know more about the types of tickets or the prices, please, click here! The tickets we are going to use is called the Global Passs.

If you want to plan an Interrail trip with your friends you are going to need agreement, communication and time. You have to agree with your friends where you would like to go before the trip starts. Communicate with each other, this is an important part of everything! You will need to share "the work of planing", also booking, researching etc., to you and your friends(equally!). And you will need to pass every travel documents(like the referance number of your flights), booking confirmations and so on. If the communication fails, you will have a hard time! You also need time to plan, because nothing will be achieved if there is no goal or reason of doing it. Like me and my friends we have been talking about it in 1 year and we also had 1 year of preparation. We will travel next week and we are far away from "ready to go".

We are all exited. Hopefully we will have a good time together, because going on a trip with girls can really be a challenge. Allthough you might be like BFFs, but you will realize that you just cannot stand each other 24/7 or even longer!

I will get back really soon to update you with things, which are important to bring along on such trip.

I'll see you soon!

-Dancerwithoutshoes

Christmas visit in Switzerland(Zürich-The End)

Hi there!

Just to make the updating of my trips in Switzerland extremly short and fast, I decide to cut out the family activities I had and so on(which is a lot). I find such thing pretty private and I respect my Swiss family-that is basically why I do not post pictures of them -well, unless they ask me to. If you think that my Swiss family must be horrible, stop being silly! They all are lovely, that is why I visit them so often... Hehe... And of course that I truly love them!

Alright, so you have seen many parts of my trips in Switzerland now and it is time for the end. I spent the last night in Zürich, because I had to take the flight back to Norway very early. Luckily I have more contacts in Switzerland then what I have here in the little city called, Oslo. So I slept over at my friend's room, who studies in Zürich and also lives there. Ingrid is one of my awesome friends, who I went in the same class with in my exchange year. She is one of those seldom friends, who you never ever want to loose. During the exchange year, I had so much fun with her and even we meet later in our lives, we know that we will still have fun! If you, Ingrid, read this; I vows you! But I there is another friend of mines who tagged along to Zürich the day before my departure, Nathalie. She is in my earlier blogg, which is about the Christmas Market in Biel. I got known Nathalie from Ingrid, if I am not guessing completely wrong. She has such a lovely personality. She always takes care of her friends, and she smiles A LOT! I love hanging out with her, because she is such a good listener, which is perfect for me, because I talk a lot sometimes... I miss these two ladies a lot... Hoping that I will see them again soon.

I have also to mention what I did before I left the beautiful village, Twann. Ecept from that I packed my stuffs I made my host family two spicy and delicious dishes, so that they will think of when they are having them(Haha...). My host mum loves spicy food, so she sent me a message to tell me that it was very spicy and tasty. The cat, Cira, which appeared in my room as I was packing. How could it know that I was about to leave? It was so sad to know that my host family and even the cat will miss me when I am gone..

If I could sum up how happy I am with the stay from 1 to 10. I would totally say 20! Because I did everything I wanted to do. Skiing, ice-skating, doing trips, Christmas Market, visit my host grand parents, seeing my friends. I did not expect to go to school and meet some of the old mates and teachers I had or even attend the dancing class with my host sister as I did back then.. These made the stay even better! Everything was so worth it...

To see the pictures of Zürich and my friends, please CLICK HERE!

-Dancerwithoutshoes

Christmas visit in Switzerland(Geneva)

Have you missed me? I have truely missed you too! Oh, dear! It is long time ago. Last time I updated was the 1st January... Would you not like to hear where I have been since then? The answer is easy; London. When I think back in time, it seems like I have not been at home at all.. The time is passing away day by day and a lot has happened since the new year. Something tenses to happen too often, that I really got used to. And something special may show up, but then it dissapeared again... All I got left is the memory.

Geneva is a great city. By great, I mean it litterally great too, like "huge". Personally Geneva is one of my favourite cities in Switzerland. Here are some random facts that my swiss family and friends told me about the city: 1) Geneva is a great watch-city, many of popular watch brands come from this city. I know that Rolex own this city! 2) The UN office is placed there. As much as I know there are only two UN offices in the world, the other one is in New York, of course. 3) There is a french speaking canton, named Jura. The Jura mountain starts in Northern-Switzerland and ends in Geneva. Behind this mountain you can see France. 4) The Lake of Geneva is huge, probably one of the biggest(or perhaps the biggest) lake in Switzerland. 5) There are many Frenchmen who take the train to Geneva everyday just to go to work. It is because they earn much better in Switzerland.

I have been in Geneva a couple of time. I have been in the UN building, seen the conferance halls where the important represents from all over the world meet. I have been at the botanic garden, which is huge and you can find all types of plants. I have been walking around in the old city, which I cannot explain where it could be. I saw the University of Geneva from the distance. The old cathedral, the shopping street with popular brands' shop, like Louis Vuitton... I have seen the Flower Clock at Jardin Anglais(English Garden). I have seen Jet d'eau, the Water Fontain. This fontain is amazing, it was provided with an autonomous pumping station, propelling 500 litres of water per second to a height of 140 metres at a speed of 200 km per hour! Anyways, this time I went there with a friend of mine, Chris. He was my AFS-boss during my exchange year. After that we have been keeping contact untill the day today. It was really nice to see him again and it was so nice to update each other what we both have been up to since last time we met. We were pretty lucky, since we found a date which fits both of us to meet, I mean, 3 weeks are not that much...


I still have not figured out how I can post pictures here, since I have overused the photo-posting-limit... So, you will have to click on a link to watch the pictures. To watch pictures please CLICK HERE!


I promise not to take that long till the next time!

Dancerwithoushoes

Christmas visit in Switzerland(Lucerne)

NEWS: Unfortunately there are no photos in this blog. Why? Because I ran out of the photo-storage-thing, so I can not  post pictures my blogs anymore, unless I pay... Which is not going to happen right away. I will put a link in the end of the entry for you to watch the pictures. (I am sorry!)

Do you know what I dislike? To travel alone. A person like me loves to have company, esspecially when I travel. Well, I do not like company all the time and also not too much. What funny is that I traveled to Lucerne and still had a great trip. I have seen a lot and I have to say that Lucerne is a wonderful place. I do understand why Lucerne is the one of the most famous places for the tourists in Switzerland. It is also known as the heart of Switzerland, because it is placed in the centre of the country.


Why you should go to Lucerne? There are plenty reasons of why you should go there. First of all, this is a Catholic city, so there are many nice churches to have a look at. Secondly, you get the sight from the Swiss Alps. Thirdly, the Dying Lion, a sculpture of a lion. Very facinating! Fourthly, the wooden bridge is really nice. Fifthly, there are lots of backery/ sweet shops in which you will find Luxumbugerli -which you cannot miss!

I took the train from Biel/Bienne to Olten, and from there another train to Lucerne. The travel by train was comfortable, as always. The front of the railway station in Lucerne is really nice. Beside the railway station there is a concert house. My hostfather told me that this concert house was really expensive, and special built for acoustic music.

Then I went all the way to see the Dying Lion. Beside the sculpture you will find a typical swiss house, which is a museum, called "Gletchergarten". First I thought I would not go there, because it costs something. But I could use the student card from the university, so I did not have to pay for the full ticket. And I have to say that was a clever thing that I have done. On that day they did not have so many guests, only some and a school class. I learned a bit of the ice-age that actually was for many hundred years ago in Lucerne. It is amazing to think that once upon a time the ice-age really existed. I never believed 100% in such things, but now they have proved me that. The funniest experience in this museum was a room with mirrors and you never know where to walk because you will see yourself everywhere! To visit their website, please click HERE


After I was done with the visit my stomach started to cry like a baby. It was time to catch something to eat. I went into a backery and bought a bretzel. Then I ordered a frappucino caramel in Starbucks. Yeah, we still do not have Starbucks in Norway, so I use every chance I get for Starbucks!

Then I went around in the city for window shopping. But I did not buy a thing because the city started to get crowded, and I hate shopping when all the people turned to be mad and selfish. So I went to buy Luxumburgerli instead. Oh my goodness, these sweets are so good!

All my closefriends and my family know that I am a quite clumsy person. On the way to see the wooden bridge I lost the cover of my camera under a car. I stood there for five minutes and tried to figure out how to get it back without doing something more awkward. I wondered if I should ask someone who walked by, or maybe do it myself. I guess I am used to have my boyfriennd doing such things for me.. After standing there like a questionmark I took out the umbrella which I had in my bag. BAM! The problem is solved.

I crossed the river by the wooden bridge and visited the Jusuit Church before I headed back to the railway station. By the railways station there is something called "Railcity", where you will find different shops. At the time that I visited Lucerne there was Christmas marked there as well, which you can see in my photo album HERE !

Dancerwithoutshoes