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Lausanne gets 2020 Winter Youth Olympics

Ice hockey at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics, Innsbruck      Photo: Rolf Roletschek / Wikimedia   The Winter Youth Oympics—a relative youth itself, since the first was only held in 2012—will hold its 2020 games in…

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Ultimate outdoor vacation: a year without walls

Photo: Instagram   A Norwegian couple has just finished the real outdoorfolks’ dream: they’ve spent the last year in Norway’s Arctic regions, sleeping in tents and improvised shelters, and living off the land.   The couple, Elise Theoline…

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Norwegian shuffles the deck on U.S. service

  Norwegian (we’ll call it that before we list its operating parts) has made two moves in the U.S. market this week, both parts of its strategy of opening up long-term discount service between the U.S. and Europe.   It’s opening service…

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Oslo, Stockholm get hi-speed link this summer

A new rail link to connect Stockholm and Oslo opens in August, cutting the time from 6 to 4-1/2 hours. It’s aimed at international professionals who might otherwise have chosen to fly between Scandinavian capitals.   It almost got delayed;…

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Wait! Wait! What Was THAT?

This is about those moments when you look at something as you walk about a city (or outside one) and you see something so odd, or at any rate odd enough, that you just need to tell someone about it, or show them.

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Strictly for the Birds…

I’m sure there must be some place without birds, but I haven’t been there. And everywhere I have been, the birds have caught my attention….

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Lausanne gets 2020 Winter Youth Olympics

Ice hockey at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics, Innsbruck      Photo: Rolf Roletschek / Wikimedia   The Winter Youth Oympics—a relative youth itself, since the first was only held in 2012—will hold its 2020 games in…

Read More

Ultimate outdoor vacation: a year without walls

Photo: Instagram   A Norwegian couple has just finished the real outdoorfolks’ dream: they’ve spent the last year in Norway’s Arctic regions, sleeping in tents and improvised shelters, and living off the land.   The couple, Elise Theoline…

Read More

Norwegian shuffles the deck on U.S. service

  Norwegian (we’ll call it that before we list its operating parts) has made two moves in the U.S. market this week, both parts of its strategy of opening up long-term discount service between the U.S. and Europe.   It’s opening service…

Read More

Oslo, Stockholm get hi-speed link this summer

A new rail link to connect Stockholm and Oslo opens in August, cutting the time from 6 to 4-1/2 hours. It’s aimed at international professionals who might otherwise have chosen to fly between Scandinavian capitals.   It almost got delayed;…

Read More

Wait! Wait! What Was THAT?

This is about those moments when you look at something as you walk about a city (or outside one) and you see something so odd, or at any rate odd enough, that you just need to tell someone about it, or show them.

Read More