As frankps sees the world!

I have contributed with a landscape picture from Mindszent, Hungary, in the German bike magazine Radfahren SPEZIAL “RadParadiese ’07“. The picture was used in the article “Ungarn: Puszta per Pedal”. The publishers of the magazine sent me a copy of the issue, and I must say I enjoyed going through the different travelling tips. I might even do a trip to Austria, to bike through the Steiermark area (“Heimliche Liebe Steiermark”). … and look, […] Continue reading →

This Easter I travelled with Ithamar Adema, to Ireland. I, as so often before, travelled with Ryanair. Ithamar flew with Air France through Paris. As we both live and work in the capitals of the countries we live in, we didn’t want to spend to much time in Dublin (Baile Átha Cliath) during Easter, as we expected it to be crowded with tourists. We therefor decided to only stay there the first and last night. If you expected to read about our trip to the Guinness Storehouse, you are […] Continue reading →

When Steinar and I were visiting Budapest this summer, Steinar bought the best travelling guide I have seen for Budapest so far and I have seen a few! It’s the “THE ROUGH GUIDE to Budapest“. Rough Guides has managed to build up a community of travellers reading their travel guides and comming with suggestions for improvements and corrections to parts that are outdated. And for a big city as Budapest, there will always be things in travel guides that are outdated. As the […] Continue reading →

In January I got a ticket to Svalbard from my sister as a gift on my 30 years anniversary. She came a long with me, and we did a mini-weekend from Friday to Monday. We travelled with SAS Braathens and landed in the Norwegian settlement Longyearbyen. These few days turned out to be full packed with trips arround the settlement. First a few facts about Svalbard. Svalbard is a group of islands between 74° – 81° N and 10° – 35° E. The Dutch seafarer Willem Barentsz is considered […] Continue reading →