As frankps sees the world!

I love writing about places that I visit, I guess just as much as the travel itself! In November I visited a friend of mine in Madrid before attending the annual Tech-Ed in Barcelona. I was quite surprised, as I favored Madrid of the two cities. Don’t get me wrong, both cities are beautiful and worth a visit! From travel books and “Top 10 things to see” you can read that one of the most recommended things to do in Madrid is to take a “walking tour” of Madrid. I […] Continue reading →

For the first time I have traveled to the Alps on a skiing holiday. The last week I have been on a Langley package tour to Val Thorens with friends. Some of us have travelled together before, obviously my sister and me, but also Geir and Sigrid (Biarritz and Bayonne), and Steinar (Budapest and Balaton). But it was the first time that I was to travel with Espen (my sister’s boyfriend), Angelica (Steinar’s girlfriend), Trude and Marius. Geir and Marius were traveling on their […] Continue reading →

Happy New Year to All of You! - 1st blog entry of the year. It’s been snowing in Oslo tonight, and all I can think of is the first snowboard trip for the season. Why? Have a look at my new snowboard, a Bataleon Goliath board, that I bought at the local snowboard shop. A cool snowboard with a ‘A Clockwork Orange’ motive. I also bought a pair of Forum bindings. As I’m going for a week to Val Thorens this winter, my sister bought me a back protector and a pair of […] Continue reading →

Norwegian has been flying Gardemoen – Budapest for years already, and have until now been alone on flying direct. Norwegian will also be flying Rygge – Budapest from upcoming spring. Their planes on the first route has always been more or less full, and the tickets have cause of this become a bit more expensive. But from next summer this might change, as the Hungarian low fair airline Wizz Air will start flying to Torp on June 26th. Here is some lines from their press release of […] Continue reading →

After the extreme heat we have gotten some beautiful days, with in between 30-35 degrees. I know, I know, normally I would have complained a lot, but after a week with temperatures above 40 degrees, this feels quite nice. I have more or less spent every afternoon of my holidays on the beautiful, renewed beach in Mindszent. During the worst heat, more then a 1.000 people found their way here, but after the temperature went down again to acceptable, there have been in between 50-100 people. […] Continue reading →