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Portugal – Porto
I’ve been lucky to visit Porto quite a few times during the last 16 years. During this periode, the city have developed from being quite “run down” city in 2009 to being the vibrant and popular tourist city you see today. The city’s walkable historic centre, with cobble stone streets and tiled house facades, combined…
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Spain – Chasing the Douro river
When talking about the Douro river, one normally think about Portugal, and the rich wine lands along its river banks there. I have previously written another blogpost about the Upper Douro area of Portugal, so this current blogpost will thus be about the Spanish side, and mostly about the part southwest of Valladolid, where Douro…
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Spain – Northwest of Madrid
Sierra de Guadarrama is a mountain massif an hour’s drive north of Madrid. The area has famous skiing resorts, forests, lakes, streams and hiking trails and many people use the area as a way to escape the summer heat of the city. La Granja de San Ildefonso La Granja de San Ildefonso is one of…
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Portugal – Upper Douro
The Douro river is a large river running from far into the Spanish highlands, passing wonderful cities like Tordesillas, Toro, Zamora, Miranda do Douro, Pocinho and Peso do Regua on its way, until it completes its journey in the city of Porto, where it meets the Atlantic ocean. In this blog post I focus on the upper…
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Namibia – So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
The title of this blog post may seem a little strange, as it comes from a book in the Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy series, but is not out of place. First: it relates to my last days in Namibia, for this time. Secondly: it was fish that first brought me to Namibia. Third: Namibia…
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Namibia -Fish river canyon
Fish river canyon is the largest canyon in Africa and the second largest in the world (only Grand canyon in the U.S. is bigger). Although the landscape around it seems very flat, the fish river has carved its way through the landscape and formed a ravine that is 160 km long and at places 550 m…
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