VirtualTourist Member gubbi1
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In the North!!! | Scenery on Lofoten, Norway |
Terve! Me in Finland!!!
Hi everybody!
A lot has changed for me in the recent days. Those who have been checking my pages before might have noticed that I changed my home location to Oulu. I have moved here to take part in a workforce exchange with Nokia Siemens Networks.
During Easter I started to discover the region around Oulu. I paid a visit to Kemi, where each winter an icehotel opens its doors to visitors (coming here for an overnightstay or just having a look). Also a small hike on the frozen sea was possible there.
Another exciting event was taking the iceroad over the frozen sea to Hailuoto, a large island just 30 kilometers away from Oulu. What an experience with only a meter of ice between my car and the deep water.
During spring I had a long weekend in Vaasa to discover the beautiful archipelago there. But there are so many places here in Finland.
My main holidays I spent on the Lofoten in Norway. Being already so far north this was a good opportunity to drive over to this extremely nice place.
Finally last weekend I have combined to visit my temporary capital Helsinki with a visit to the beautiful old Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.
Now it is soon autumn, but this gives no reason to stop discovering the beauty of the north...
Because of frequent happenings there is a lot to do on VT so please be patient with me... ;).
Feel free also to have a look at my external photo page, where I place some of my photos to different subjects.
Latest changes:
This list will be placed on my external page -> here...
But don't forget to check the rest of my pages.... :)))
Check out BBCs container box travelling around the world tracked with GPS!
Interesting links for travellers:
+ Weatherwarnings in Europe
+ Country profiles on BBC News Webpage
+ Youth hostels in Germany
+Interactive Bikemap Unterallgaeu (Kaufbeuren, Memmingen, Mindelheim) german only, just play you'll manage
+Interactive Bikemap Oberallgaeu (Füssen, Neuschwanstein, Kaufbeuren) german only, just play you'll manage
+Check the emergency numbers for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
+In case you are interested in how it looks like in places around Europe, check out this page with european or worldwide webcams.
+Maps (city maps) of Europe and US.
+Have a look at Wikipedia, it is an Online-Encyclopedia and contains beside general knowledge also infos on all different countries. It is available in a lot of languages...
+Here you can find tour files for GPS-devices. The files are sorted by country. It is also available in English.
+Listen to Radiostations from all over the world via the web.
Found them on the web and thought they might be interesting for you. Of course I have no responsibility for the contents of the linked pages, which I haven't created... :)
If it is against any law to place screen shots of Google Earth, please let me know. I will take them away then!
Have fun on my pages!!!
Some thoughts about the habbits of VT-users: Just realized that my travelogue about La Gomera has half the page accesses of my main page, but just a tenth have had a look at my La Gomera page itself!?! Seems like most of you just mingle around instead of doing some travel planning. I think this is very interesting! Well, actually I like do the same quite often... ;)
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German hiking:
Here I will add direct links to show hiking tours I did in the years I live in Kempten. All starting points for the trips are reachable by car within a maximum of 45 minutes. These great possibilities to do hiking in all skill levels is maybe the heaviest reason, why people love the Allgaeu as the perfect holiday region. Sooner or later I hope to find time to give some details about the tours and suggestions for you in the tipps area...
+Oytal-tour, which ended in thunder and lightning.
+Mittag from Immenstadt
+Nagelfluh from Gunzesried
+Hiking to an island on Oceans ground. Germans North Sea Coast
+Riedberger Horn
International hiking:
+Canyoning (Silz, Austria)
+Hiking above Nesselwaengle (Tannheimer Tal, Austria)
+From Ravello to Amalfi, Italy.
+Down to Positano, Italy
+Pisciotta, Italy
+Arkadi, Greece (Crete)
+Pinnacles National Monument, California, US
+Henry W. Coe State Park, California, US
+Big Basin Redwoods, California, US
+Bryce Canyon NP, Utah, US
+Pilpasuon Luontopolku, Oulu, FI
+Utakleiv, Lofoten, NO
+Ballstad, Lofoten, NO |
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| Harbour area G?tariver, G?teborg |
Neu-Anspach
My origin is located about 40 km north of Francfort close to the beautiful hills of the Taunus. There you can have nice walks in the forests. If you are there don't miss to check out the Hessenpark, with rebuilt timber-framed houses, and the Saalburg, a reconstructed roman fortress. It is located at the Limes, the former northern border of the roman empire.
Infopages:
Hessenpark (german and english)
Roman Fortress Saalburg (german, french and english)
Also check out my Travelogue in the Neu-Anspach section!
Sweden
An extremely nice time I spent in Sweden for in whole 2 and a half years, between '96 and '00. I studied at the Chalmers Tekniska Högskola and enjoyed being part of Göteborg, which was made really easy by the people I met. Tack saa jätte mycket till alla Svenskarna and of course also to my other friends who have been in the same situation at the beginning as me! I felt how important it is to give people support to start a new part in their life, namely a stay in a country whose language they do not understand. The great thing is, that you always get something back! It is the same thing these pages are base upon.... So keep on being (virtual-)tourist!!!!!
Crete, Greece
With a trip to Crete I discovered a great place to enjoy the sun and have a relaxing time from daily life by biking and hiking. Despite to get ill there, this trip stays very present in my memories. So many nice people and such a great nature. |
| Vulcano Stromboli (Italy) |
Sicilia
The holiday on Sicilia gave me the possiblility to experience the most impressive event of all my travels... a night hike to the top of Stromboli.Stromboli is really busy vulcano on the island with the same name. It is located north east of Sicilia. You HAVE to take a guided tour, otherwise it is too dangerous. I don't
know if it is possible anymore, after a large eruption quarter a year after my visit there ( It is not my fault... :) ).
Main part of my stay I have been to Cefalu, a nice town, from where it is good to go hiking in the close mountains of Madonie.
See more nightpics of the vulcano on the Stromboli pages.
La Gomera
Beside a trip to Toronto in '93 this trip was the most farest I did until now. The spanish LaGomera is part of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic close to the coast of Africa. I really enjoyed the great nature there. Influenced by African weather and its vulcanic origin a nice landscape has developed there. There are plants and animals which are just living on this island and nowhere else. |
Porto
Visiting a friend from my time in Sweden I got the chance to have a look at Porto and its surrounding. Porto is a great town with an interesting architecture. In the protected part (Unesco) the houses are really narrow standing side by side. Lots of houses are covered with ceramics, especially check out Porto's Central Station. The inside is amazing, see the photo which only shows a very small part of the walls.
I am really fond of the Port wine... ;)
Lincoln
A result of my stay in Sweden is that I really like taking a ferry. So I didn't say no to the possibility to make a 'One-day-in-Lincoln-Trip'. Going by bus to Rotterdam, taking the ferry to Hull, proceeding to Lincoln and then the same thing back to Neu-Anspach. Sleeping on the ferry makes this an interesting trip. A great thing was, that we visited Amsterdam (I have already been there before) and Br?gge in Belgium. I didn't expect that it is such a nice place! |
| On oceans ground, Cuxhaven |
Cuxhaven
This year, 2005, was the first time ever I was at the Germans Northsea coast. Unfortunately so late in my life, as this place is a very special place on earth. Due to the moons gravitation force the earths water is moved on the surface of our planet. There is a sort of hill of water towards the moon. But on other places this water is missing. Therefore at some places the water level rises and falls twice a day. In many places (France or Canada) this difference of the level is much larger than here at the germans north sea, but due to the fact that the ground is very flat, it happens that the water completely disappears behind the horizont. So you can walk around for kilometers into the emptied ocean. But it has to be warned, cause people get trapped quite frequently and have to be rescued...
Also nice is a trip to Helgoland which is the only german island in international water. Therefore it is possible to buy taxfree there. But this is not the main reason to go there, it is the landscape! See the pages...
Campania
Another trip in 2005 brought me to Campania in bella italia. After my really nice holidays on Sicilia it was time again. Again I travelled with Frosch Sportreisen (sports travels), which offer a mixture of hiking, biking and cultural tours. This time I stayed about 2.5 hours south of Naples, just south of the Amalfi coast. It is a very beautiful area and of course the food didn't disappoint me!
Edmonton and Vancouver, Canada
A great experience in 2006 was to visit a class mate from Sweden in Canada after several years. I saw a lot of Edmonton and the surrounding. Also the very famous digging grounds for dinosaurs in the Badlands I could visit. The last week I spent in the beautiful and interesting town of Vancouver which I can highly recommend! |
California & Southwest
In 2007 three business trips with one extension for holidays allowed me to intensly explore the Bay-area as well as the whole Southwest of the States. With a lot of cultural places and scenic landscapes there is plenty to see. I was impressed and hope to be back there for some holidays.
Oulu, Finland
Currently I am working temporarily in Finland and enjoy the northern culture and landscape. Guess that during my year here in Oulu there will be a lot of things collected for VT.
Lofoten, Norway
Living in the 'southern' North of Finland made it possible to visit the stunning landscape of the Lofoten islands. These are among the most beautiful islands in the world. I am currently building up the pages and hope you will find some useful info and have fun visiting them. As I hiked there aswell, you will later find some entries in the hiking section above.
More to come...
Planned trips
... and ongoing ... A new adventure... one year in Oulu, Finland.
Anytime: Small trips in the region where I am .... more time for VT!
If you see anything, which seems wrong, please drop me a line... Thanks! | | | Somewhere in Nevada, NV, US |
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nickandchris Fri Nov 21, 2008 22:46 UTC
Thanks for the belated birthday wishes, Christian. Just another year gone by.... Fantastic opening photo. | PALS Wed Oct 8, 2008 23:32 UTC
Oh yes, that's Nevada! | mesoblonda Thu Oct 2, 2008 17:30 UTC
Christian, are you still in California? Thank you for the birthday wishes. I love remembering the day but not my age! HA HA. | codrutz Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:37 UTC
Hi Christian, I see you have the two best hobbies in common with me, hiking and photography :) I have to take a day or two and check out all your pages. You have great stories and pictures! Thanks |
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