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In a series of available Greek olive oil (at least for Europe…) selling e.g Kalamata (one of my favorites!) olive oil we have Konstantopoulos S.A. based in Katerini. They have all sorts of olive products:

This has already been mentioned here and there, but it is starting to become more definite now. At least my plans wrt. Greece are already in place: Western Greece: • Parga Ionian: • Lefkada • Zakynthos

Before I did island walk I did city walk.  No not city wok. 😉 The other day I accidentally stumbled on the Great Walks series from Frommer’s. I wish I had one of these when I e.g visited these cities:          

With snow in the air and gusts of wind up to gale force it is more than evident that the walking season in Oslo is over. Time to sum up the year of 2010 and see what the year brought. Strangely enough it seems not so many islands were visited this year, and most trips … Continue reading »

I just saw this documentary about Norwegian Black Metal today and found it rather good: It is actually quite meaningful. It has some strong points and perhaps some weaker points compared to TV programs I have seen about the same subject. The possible weak point is that there are rather few people actually telling the … Continue reading »

Cadogan also updated their Crete guide in 2010:

The competition at Rough Guides has updated their Crete guide this year:

These Lonely Planet Greece Guides have been updated this year:

A couple of Rother guides have new editions this year, the Cyprus guide has its 2nd edition and the Tenerife guide is up to its 3rd edition:

Also mind Rother’s Costa Brava guide: More info on Rother’s Web Site.