Discovering Oslo City

Mar.31. We left our bags and went to the Nobel Peace Centre, Listen to people from all over the world in the Register. Walked the passage of Honour, The Gallery, Nobel Filed, The Eye, The Nobel chamber, the Global room, The Wall Papers, Genesis: renewal energy sources. www.nobelpeacecenter.org There was an exhibit downstairs, called “Children of Abraham” by Abbas. “Glue Me Peace” (Grip Freden) by Meschac Gaba where you can also participate in “Thoughts on Peace”. The title is a literal translation of the African French phrase “Colle moi la paix” meaning “leave me alone”, or the more aggressive “give me a break”. Visitors are invited to leave an electronic message relating to the topic of peace. In return, the visitor receives a flag poster designed by Gaba.This act of reciprocity is an exchange between the artist and his audience, and a means by which the artwork will continually develop and grown, nurtured by the visitors’ contributions.
Another thing I noticed from the street is Giangantic Lickerish and colorful ones in Norway.

Discovering Norway

Historical Museum/Museum of Cultural history, University of Oslo: Viking era, medieval ages and 9000 YEARS of Norway’s archaeological heritage. The Ethnographic exhibitions tell the lives of African and Artic peoples and highlighted from East Asia. But we didn’t get to see the two new permanent, exhibitions, from America and Egypt. Because they are still under construction. www.khm.uio.no

The Shaman, Noaiti, acted as an intermediary between humans and the hidden powers. In 18th Century the Christian confiscated the drum. Used by Sami people. Fire catalyst, made of ashes, water, and dry for a week, specific fungus, put it in the cassis soda.

Kon-tiki – www.kon-tiki.no/events
The Kon-Tiki Museum, institute for pacific archeology and cultural history.
Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002). The Kon-Tiki Expedition, In 1947, he and his crew crossed 5,000 miles of Pacific Ocean on board the balsa raft Kon-Tiki. It took 101 days and proved that Polynesia was in the range of balsa rafts from South America.

Easter Island, in 1955, he went on an archeological expedition to Easter Island to study the mystery of the giant moai statues.

Ra II sailed from Morocco in 1970 manned by 8 men from 8 nations and reached Barbados in the Caribbean 57 days later. Heyerdahl demonstrated that Old World sailors could have influenced the pre-Colombia civilization of Central America.

Tigris – The reed boat Tigris crossed the Indian Ocean from Asia to Africa in 1978. It proved that there could have been contact between Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus Valley thousands of years ago. The Tigris was burnt in April 1978 in protest against the sales of arms to developing nations.

Monolith, Oslo, Norway

Early morning arrived OSLO – Norway
The peace city, OSLO. Norway, northern lights, midnight sun. Bergen is the second largest city in the west where the UNESCO office is located. www.visitOSLO.com. Non-Stop Visitation: Viking Museum by University of Oslo – www.khm.uio.no

Frederickshavn, Denmark

May-27: Skagen is the northern-most city in Denmark. It’s a fisherman’s town and art lovers city. About 30-40 km away, there is a church that is buried under the sands over the years called “ Den Tilsandede Kirke”. They have this fish that lives at the bottom of the ocean called “Dog…..”, and it is one of their famous fish in Denmark for eating. We took a train from Vjile to Aalborg and then transfer to Frederishavn.

May-28: Frederickshavn, a port city. In Denamrk there are many attractions for children and family such as Randers Regnskov Tropical Zoo, Bombark Danish handmade candles, Fiskeri-og Sofartsmusset, Fregatten Jylland tall-boats (a male attraction), Kattergatcentret Grenaa, www.dengamleby.dk, www.friheden.dk, www.aqua-ferskvandsakvarium.dk, www.aalborgzoo.dk, www.jylland.com, www.faarupsommerland.dk, ww.djurssommerland.dk, and so on… So Magical and wounderful Land of Denamrk. I love it. www.visit-us-all.dk

Across the Skagerrak Sea, north of Denmark, we took “ColorLine” ferry, very nice ferry, better than Stena line. Along the Pennisular of Norway and Sweeden, you can see little towns, yachting, speed-boats, sailings and beautiful coast lines.

Billund, Denmark

Copenhagen, Denmark

Nordic, Scandinavian countries

Here is our next destination!

Jog and Work in Amsterdam, Nederlands

4th time in Nederlands:
This time, I bought a cheap-pair of runners as soon as I landed Nederlands. Started my jogging and exercises. Got to get back with my fitness. Will needed in the nordic countries. Nieuw Vennep is a nice little town with beautiful park, children zoo and interesting mixture of clean industrial area with mordern housing estate. Some weekdays...I took Shelly (neighbour's dog) for walk at least 3 times a day. Fed the ducks, breath tons of clean fresh air, sweat alot, cooked our favourite foods and enjoyed different kind of rose wines with some DVDs.
That's how we spent our 6 weeks of working time. April 16 - May 23, 2006 in Holland. It has been really busy with work but relaxing as well. Now that most of the deadlines are caught up, we are ready to move on with our travel.

KeuKenhof - Lisse, Holland

Tulips!!! Finally, my foot on the seas of tulips, climbed up the wind mills and learnt about different wooden shoes. Also visited a historic parkland of 32 hectares brimming with flowering tulips, hyacinths, daffodils and all other srping bulbs. An overwhelming display of colour, a feast for your eyes and a wounderful spectacle to photograph, just like unique flower shows in the pavilions.
History
In 1949 the then mayor of Lisse, Mr.W.J.H.Lambooy, together with ten leading bulb-growers conceived the idea of a permanent annual open-air flower exhibition. Their eyes quickly alighted on the Keukenhof Estate: the ideal site. www.keukenhof.com

Holland is not equal to Nederlands

When I said Holland is just a province in Netherlands, the ticketing officer (Dutch man) got excited. He said No-no-No, Holland is Nederlands, I live here my whole life, I know. He was very adamant about it so I didn't say anything more but just gave him a huge plastic smile.
Here is a regional map of Netherlands for him (if he ever get it right in his life!)

Harwick Intl to HoekVanHolland

What a fun ferry ride? 2 cinemas, two restaurants, casinos, bars, karaoke and disco area. I think its a NL school team of sort on-board, they were teens and very entertaining. I watched them dance the entire trip.
Also met travelers from NY (young-couples) a traveler from Texas. We talked and drank and share our traveling experiences. Cool! The ferry docked at Hoek Van Holland 0200hr. no train running yet. So more time for our open conversations. Encountered challenge with the NL ticket-machine (no cr-cards or bills are accepted). Met nice and friendly ticket inspector. He said Amsterdam and Rotterdam are rivals. Its interesting to hear how they also have our eastCoast and westCoast thingee. Reached Amsterdam around 0400hr. What an interesting night!

2nd time in London, England

May 9-10-11, lone ranger at Earls Court 2, London for tradeshows and seminars. Met with two of our clients from NY and one from India. Found partners, secure two-new repeated account and attended all related seminars. Cool! There are http://www.internetworld.co.uk/ and http://www.idmf.co.uk runnind side-by-side. So its like killing two birds with one stone. It was worth it.