As frankps sees the world!

I have played Ultimate Frisbee for about 4 years with friends out in parks after work. Sadly, because of the bad weather this summer there have been now playing. Recently I started playing with EZ Ultimate on Wednesdays. We play in Frognerparken during summer time and then indoor during winter. The team is quite so international, with people from Hungary, U.S., Brazil, Austria, Germany, and of course Norway. Yesterday and today we had the first tournament in many years held in Oslo, with 5 […] Continue reading →

I am frequent reader of Budapest Sun, and lately I have been following the soccer news. Not any kind of soccer, but the Hungarian amateur soccer cup, Duncan Shiels Vándorkupa.  The cup has many foreign teams, among them a Scandinavian team, Vikings. And of course, the Vikings is also this year doing it surprisingly well! […] Continue reading →

Yesterday I was asked to come a long and watch the adrinaline kick of race called “Råskinnet“. This is the ultimate test and a quite different run then a marathon. The race itself is only 8 km, but it goes through rivers, water with ice on the side, snow and mud, lots of mud. The runners even have to run down a ski jump, and then straight up again. Muscles get stiff and keeping speed up is close to impossible. I write close to impossible cause the winner was a 17 […] Continue reading →

Skiing season is over here in Europe, and it’s time to plan next season. You can never start to early. What about Himalaya or India next year? I recently read a great article in the travel magazine Zine (the article is available in PDF for those of you understanding Norwegian). It was about the Norwegian extreme driver Lars Fidjestøl that travelled to Kashmir to find some powder. In the end of the article there were two links. Have a look: http://www.himalayanpowderdreams.com/ […] Continue reading →