Seeing the sights in Korea
It’s not every day you get to fly halfway around the globe while someone else foots the bill. I had to go to South Korea to join my new ship, but I asked my company to fly me out a week early, so that I could have a little vacation first. Here's how it went: I landed...
Fabulous Finse in the Fall
Finse is located 1222 meters above sea level and is only reachable by the railway line going between Oslo and Bergen. Due to the climate and weather, Finse is defined as the southernmost Arctic climate in the World and is a miniature Antarctica. My brother was...
Cruising the Boknafjord
All good things come to an end and my time on MF Stavangerfjord has just ended. I got to spend 14 months there, together with the great team onboard. If you had asked me when I went to school if I was interested in working on a ferry, I would have told you to...
Freediving around Stavanger
I have enjoyed a few epic freediving trips around Stavanger this summer together with my brother Martin, Jacob, Erling and Helge. Though we've never managed to all be on the same trip, we've had some memorable dives together. The trip Jacob and I had to Vigdel kicked...
The French Riviera
A long weekend in May on the French Riviera is something everyone should have on their "to-do list", especially when it involves eating good seafood, drinking great wine and looking at sailboats. What more could you possibly ask for? We flew to Nice and spent the...
Freediving the caves at Vigdel
Jacob and I hit the sea together, for the first time since he left African Innovation on Tahiti in 2010. Now we're both back in Stavanger and the sea temperature is very different from French Polynesia. Luckily we were both well equipped with proper 7mm open cell wet...
A crowded day at the Pulpit Rock
We had planned an early morning, but we were slow to rise, slower to eat breakfast, but by 10:30 we were at the dock in Stavanger waiting for the ferry. Quite a lot of people had decided to take advantahe of the beautiful weather, so we missed the first ferry, but got...
Freediving in Dahab, Egypt
3 months after my week of freediving in Koh Tao was cut short, I was back in the water again, but this time with Freedive Dahab in Egypt. I was in Dahab to do a Level 2 SSI freediving course, in order to increase my freediving skills, learn new relaxation techniques...
Distillery visits on the Isle of Islay
For many years Single Malt Whisky has been an interest and passion for my dad. It has fortunately rubbed off on my brother and I. I gave my dad a ticket to Scotland as a birthday present and in February it was time to go. Here's a video of the trip: The two of us flew...
A winter trek to Bynuten
Kjersti and I decided that it was time to get acquainted with the area around Stavanger, but even though I've grown up here it was tough to decide where to go. The solution was to download The Norwegian Trekking Association's App: UT. We checked out all the treks...
Butler: My favorite cocktail bar in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong we met up with Fredrik, one of my best friends from when I lived in Beijing. Fred had planned the evening, so it came as no surprise that it turned out to be a very memorable treat. We started the evening with what felt like a 20-course meal at Da Ping...
Meeting friends in Hong Kong
After an eventful stay in Thailand I was looking forward to a long weekend in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is an awesome city and as luck would have it, a few friends of mine, from my Beijing days, had relocated there. We arrived at the hotel at 20:00 and were met by Vinny...
Dengue fever
Already on our first night on Koh Tao Kjersti started feeling poorly. Fever kicked in and she was in no mood to play. The next day she opted to stay in bed while I went free-diving. After she had a second night of fevered sleep, I understood that something was amiss...
Freediving on Koh Tao
After 8 days on Koh Samui it was time to make the jump to a different island. Koh Tao, a short trip away, tops the throne over where the most people in the World get their SCUBA licenses. On top of that it's a beautiful and small island, so we figured this would be...
Koh Samui: The Hangover movies comes to life.
After an eventful, but short stay in Frankfurt, we had a fantastic flight (on the brand new Airbus 380) with Thai Airways to Koh Samui, via Bangkok. On the the flight from Bangkok to Koh Samui we met Wes and Dee, the reason why we were in Thailand to begin with: Their...
First stop on the Thailand Trip : The Emergency Room in Frankfurt Airport
At exactly 04:30 this morning, the alarm went off and our day of traveling started. I had 30 minutes to shower, shave and finish packing before my mother showed up to drive us to the airport. Shaving took longer than expected, because I hadn't shaved in a month and a...
A long weekend in London
Forever has passed since I last traveled anywhere. At least it felt like that, because I haven´t really traveled anywhere since coming home from the sailing trip 2 years ago. I did have a couple of motorcycle adventures this summer, but it wasn´t traveling in the...
A 2nd shot at mom’s 60th Birthday
Last year Martin (my brother) and I "kind of" miscalculated and invited my mom's friends to a splendid vegetarian coooking class to celebrate my mom's 60th birthday. When we were right in the middle of the preparations we discovered that our mom was turning 59 and not...
Haze rendezvous
DAY 1 At the crack of dawn I jumped out of bed and threw on my uniform. Next came a quick breakfast where I wolfed down a couple of eggs on toast, before I cleaned up my cabin by dumping all my crap inside my closet. I reminded the AB's to open the hatch to the...
My first proper motorcycle trip
After buying a KTM 990 Adventure, a motorcycle that can take me around the World, it was high time to go on a proper adventure. Christer and I had decided to drive to Germany and depending on how the weather was, to either swing East to Poland, South into the heart of...
Farewell to Facebook
I've decided to quit Facebook. I've basically been on Facebook since it was opened up to the general public. At first it was great, I got connected to tons of people that I hadn't been in touch with for years and it was easy to keep tabs on people around me. I felt...
Australia
We left Noumea fully planning to sail to Coff's Harbor, but plans change (as they often do when you're dependent on the direction of the wind). We actually had decent wind for most of the trip, but some bad weather was brewing further south and when the haul-out...
New Caledonia
After an awesome time with the volcano on Tanna it was time to lift anchor and move on. We had a really nice sail to New Caledonia, where we sailed straight to Noumea. We had planned to see more than just Noumea, but ended up staying there until we cast off for...
Tanna and the Volcano
Tanna in Vanuatu is all about the volcano, so needless to say when we were there, we were all about the volcano. It was awesome. We spent an entire afternoon and an hour after dark witnessing the fury of the volcano. It is amazing. Anywhere else on the planet we...