My girlfriends surprise trip to Santorini Greece!

About one month a head of the trip she told me that I had to take one week off work in the end of August! I off course asked what se had in mind for the week, but all she told me was that it was a surprise. Since we have a trip planned in the end of September to Peru, I just figured that it was a week vacation to somewhere close. 

As the days went by and we came closer to the week, I still had no idea what she had in mind. But a few days before she told me that we were going to fly to Oslo, she had also given me a couple of hints like "Motor bike", "White and blue" and some other weird hints that I could not make anything out of. 

The same day we were going to leave, I told here that I had to at least know what to pack?!. "No, you don't.... I will pack for you. Please let me know what you would like to pack if you were to go to a cold place and if you were to go to a warm place" Was the answer I got. She told me to get lost for a couple of hours and when I got back she had already packed two backpacks.

Throwing the backpacks in the back of the truck and on the way to the airport I still had no idea what I had in the backpack or where we were going except that we were flying to Oslo. 

As we got to Oslo and were going to pick up the luggage she told me that we had to check in to the airport hotel, but that was all she told me. I figured that we were going to take a flight tomorrow, but that only left me scanning hundreds of flights that were scheduled to leave the day after. 

Not until we were at the gate and were about to walk inn to the plane did I see that we were going to the beautiful Santorini in Greece, with is a place I have only heard of as a beautiful place. 

The week turned out to be abselotely amazing! As you have seen under my "Phone blog" I have already posted two photos, but below are some more ;)

 

Visiting these USA´s

Its always a love/hate relationship with visiting the US, Its amazingly easy traveling and getting around, the people are always nice and I have a good time! The only issue is the food and once in a while I meet very ignorant people, but these are less common! I must say though that I had some ignorant views my self when it came to the American health care system, but I have partly been proven wrong. I have never had to go to a hospital in the states, or anywhere except for Norway for that matter, but now I see that I am lucky that the US was the first place where I had to go to one! *See the post from India*. I started getting sick the day before I left for the USA and after 5 days of high fever and getting worse I realized I had to see a doctor. So I went to a hospital, got my own room within 10 minutes, was checked out by 3 nurses and a doctor within 30 minutes and had all tests done and a chest x-ray within 60 minutes and were diagnosed with pneumonia and realse´d within 2 hours! Impressed!! The small drawback is when the bill comes I guess, I did not see the one from the hospital, because that one was shipped directly to Gjensidige Insurance, but I had to pay the antibiotics for 5 days costing over $220 and that gives me just an idea of what the hospital bill came to. Under you see the pictures from the past week, one from my x-ray and several from a trip to Chicago after I got better ;)

First trip of 2011 to England!

This is actually the first time i have ever been to England and i must say I was very anxious on driving a car there, especially when I was upgraded to a Mercedes!! I had three goals for this trip and that was to drink a lot of local beer, eat fish and chips and sights around London. I got through all of them :) And since my expectations for England was not very high i was very pleasantly surprised :) Here are a few pictures.  

The Hide London Hotel, a very nice and reasonable priced one!!

Right now i am in USA and a post from that trip will be posted in not to long ;)

Businesstrip to Barcelona, Spain.

A couple of weeks ago I was on a business trip to Barcelona. I have spent some time in Barcelona and I love it just as much every time I visit! Did not take to many pictures this time, but here are a few from the Gaudi Park and house.

Watching the wild!

I never got as far as posting a blogpost on what happened after the Kilimanjaro climb, but we spent two weeks on a safari and on Zanzibar. Here is a few pictures we managed to take with our compact cameras, I must say, I really missed my SLR for this part of the trip. 

It has to be said, the safari started the minute we checked inn at the first hotel!!

The last part of the trip were spent on Zanzibar, a beautiful place.