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When I select hotels it is usually all about location. For an island walking holiday it saves a lot of time to be close to buses and/or ferries. Near the ferry terminal at Gruž harbour you will find the excellent Hotel Berkeley. This family owned  boutique hotel is a bit outside the center of Dubrovnik, … Continue reading »

Hidden away up in Ktima Paphos you can find the Kiniras Hotel and Garden Restaurant. The hotel is good, the restaurant even better. Warmly recommended!

One of the best hotels I have ever stayed at, the Heritage Av Liberdade in downtown Lisbon:

Previously I have had a run through of in my experience especially nice Greek hotels. Hotels that (regardless of price level) are particularly good in just that class. I am thinking of extending this now to other places I have visited. First out is Tenerife. In Santa Cruz there is an excellent hotel which also … Continue reading »

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: