Gunnar Garfors
The Cities with the Most Airports in the World
How many airports does your city have? Not as many as the top city on the list. Unless that, by coincicdence, is where you live. And even...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Jul 24
- 3 min
The 6 Cs of Travel
Travelling should be vastly underestimated by anyone who hasn’t properly done it. No? My bet is then that you didn’t go far enough, that...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Jul 22
- 5 min
Ten reasons why guide books are bad for you
Travel guide books. I hate them. I hate them like garden owners hate smelly little apple stealing brats. Guide books reduce your...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Jul 22
- 5 min
The Deliriousness Of Impulsive Travel (DOIT!)
What do you mean you are not impulsive, adventurous, restless or hyperactive? Well, bloody do something about it. Why? Because it is the...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Jul 22
- 4 min
Why Travellers Kiss Better
I was recently interviewed by There She Goes, a magazine targets young women. It is on travel and fashion. I clearly was not interviewed...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Jul 22
- 18 min
Gunnar Garfors in the Media
Garfors has been interviewed and quoted for various reasons by media from a range of countries, and he has written some freelance...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Mar 31, 2021
- 1 min
Beyond the Beaten Track
My third book features 81 spectacular places beyond the beaten track in Norway. It was published on April 15 2021 by Skald and is called...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Aug 5, 2020
- 4 min
Om sauar og reiseposørar
Kvifor ikkje Ofoten når Lofoten er full? Eller uansett. Tilsvar til “Reiseposørene” på NRK Ytring: Det er interessant å få sin eigen...
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Gunnar Garfors
- May 14, 2020
- 1 min
The Few Coronavirus Free Countries
Turkmenistan has not reported any cases of the coronavirus. There are now only 12 countries without any coronavirus cases, 10 of them in...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Apr 12, 2020
- 4 min
Finally Travel Stopped
The coronavirus pandemic has abruptly virtually closed down the travel industry. Globetrotters, backpackers, all-inclusive lovers, sun...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Apr 6, 2020
- 4 min
No Visitors, No Virus
Outside Bangui in the Central African Republic. There is unsurprisingly a strong correlation between tourist numbers and spread of the...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Mar 28, 2020
- 7 min
Travelling While Not
Leptis Magna in Libya. The coronavirus has affected most people’s lives and we would all like the pandemic to end sooner rather than...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Jan 19, 2020
- 5 min
Who Deserves Your Aid Money?
In a pygmy village in Central African Republic. Internationally there are thousands and thousands of organizations that provide aid to...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Dec 23, 2019
- 2 min
A Third Runway, Anyone?
OSL seen from the north. Creative Commons licensed photo by Avinor. Several airports want to add a third runway, including Oslo Airport...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Oct 27, 2019
- 1 min
The Travel Podcast to Everywhere
Musician, comedian and author Kristopher Schau (middle) was our first guest with a live audience in Grefsenkollen, a bar overlooking Oslo....
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Gunnar Garfors
- Sep 22, 2019
- 7 min
The World’s 13 Best Countries
The Solomon Islands aren’t too shabby. I love reading about far-flung places, unknown cultures and countries different to my own. But I...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Jul 12, 2019
- 3 min
Oceania in a Nutshell
Not many people have experienced a sunrise in Kiribati, the world’s 9th least visited country. More and more people aspire to visit every...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Jun 12, 2019
- 3 min
The World’s Best Travelled Backpack
The NIN Lifestyle x Gunnar Garfors in Northern Norway. Photo: Haakon Hoseth. So, this is totally crazy! There’s a backpack that has been...
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Gunnar Garfors
- Jun 10, 2019
- 6 min
Middle of Nowhere/Norway: Top Chefs Create Pop-up Kelp Restaurant
Very few people has ever visited Træna. It is simply too remote. Photo: Haakon Hoseth. Seaweed, or kelp, is the new food trend in...
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Gunnar Garfors
- May 23, 2019
- 3 min
No, Flying Doesn’t Have the Worst Carbon Footprint
War, what is it good for? Given my extensive travelling it may not surprise you that I am often accused of having the world’s biggest...
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