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 did not even go to Greece. An odd year. Oh well, I will have to make up for that next year. These were the pages that were added or received major updates in 2010 (chronologically):

• The Algarve (Lagos)
• Côte d’Azur (Nice)
• Kefalonia
• Costa Brava (Barcelona)
• Oslomarka

The web pages were accompanied by these photo albums:

• The Algarve
• Nice
• Kefalonia
• Barcelona
• Marka 2010

An active year after all, let’s hope next year becomes equally productive!

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 story in this movie, why did they not interview more of the central figures? On the other hand these are the ones that usually do not speak to regular media (for a very good reason). Recommended.

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:

Cyprus - South & North by Rolf Goetz

Tenerife by Klaus and Annette Wolfsperger

Also mind Rother’s Costa Brava guide:

More info on Rother’s Web Site.

This newish Rother guide has eluded my book shop, that is now corrected:

More info here.

Yet another new book from Cicerone, “Walking in Croatia” by Rudolf Abraham:

Like the Sunflower guide for Croatia this one also covers many islands!

Greece is more than islands, so if you want some different challenges maybe this could be something, “The Mountains of Greece” by Tim Salmon: