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Tonga. Best Discovered on a Two-Wheeler.
How to see a fair amount of a country if you only have a day? If the country is Tonga, renting a scooter will do the trick. That is if...
Gunnar Garfors
Mar 25, 20132 min read


Samoa, a Land of Colors
Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevensom decided to settle here the last few years of his life, taking the name Tusitala which is Samoan...
Gunnar Garfors
Mar 24, 20133 min read


Marshall Islands; Fishing Paradise, Diving Heaven
You haven’t even heard about the country? You are not alone. Marshall Islands is the 5th least visited country in the world. But why is...
Gunnar Garfors
Mar 23, 20136 min read


Would You Fly Air Hello Kitty?
EVA Air and Hello Kitty. How about that for an unlikely cooperation? Or isn’t it? The companies actually complement each other in ways...
Gunnar Garfors
Mar 19, 20133 min read


7 Up
I feel sort of sad, sort of excited, sort of happy. I am about to finish my slightly manic travel project, to visit all 198 countries of...
Gunnar Garfors
Mar 13, 20134 min read


Flybillettar på nett – kvar og kvifor?
Gå hit for testen av flybillettbestillingsnettstader eg skreiv på oppdrag frå NRKbeta. Intervjuet som tok utganspunkt i artikkelen vart...
Gunnar Garfors
Mar 12, 20131 min read


Kroes Agrees, the Internet Won’t Solve Everything
Neelie Kroes, the EU Commissioner for Digital Agenda and Vice-Presidents of the European Commission, spoke at the last meeting of Radio...
Gunnar Garfors
Mar 11, 20132 min read


Guess Which 6 Countries Have No Airports
Yes, such countries do actually exist. There are six of them, five of them are tiny and in Europe. Four of them are inside or very close...
Gunnar Garfors
Mar 6, 20133 min read


These Airlines Fly to Most Countries
You can measure the size of an airline in many ways. By number of passengers, number of planes, flown passenger kilometers or through...
Gunnar Garfors
Mar 5, 20135 min read


Sierra Leone, The Land of the Mountain Lions
Sierra Leone translates as the land of the mountain lion. It sounds beautiful and it is. It sounds scary, but it isn’t. Unless you have a...
Gunnar Garfors
Feb 28, 20136 min read


EBU Recommends FM Switch Off
European Broadcasting Union recommends that European countries switch off FM. The announcement was made during EBU Digital Radio Summit...
Gunnar Garfors
Feb 19, 20132 min read


Avoiding Airport to City Rip-offs
Somehow is seems that ‘bad apples’ are overrepresented among taxi drivers based in airports. How can you avoid being ripped off by them...
Gunnar Garfors
Feb 4, 20134 min read


Why Public Transport Beats Airport Taxis
It is often convenient to take a taxi to or from the airport. But there are in my opinion also reasons why you should rather pick public...
Gunnar Garfors
Feb 4, 20133 min read


The Overcautious People at Lexus
Some companies are more cautious than others. Snow in United Arab Emirates is even rarer than sunshine is in Norway. Not to mention heavy...
Gunnar Garfors
Feb 1, 20131 min read


The World’s Most Dangerous Countries
Where would you not want to go on holiday? To war zones? They actually aren’t too bad. Considering. Less people are killed in armed...
Gunnar Garfors
Jan 31, 20134 min read


How to Apply For a Visa to Kiribati
This isn’t my usual blog post, but I found it almost impossible to find out how to apply for a visa to the Republic of Kiribati in the...
Gunnar Garfors
Jan 29, 20132 min read


Kverulantkampen om kringkastingsavgifta
This post relates to the license funding of Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and is therefore written in Norwegian. Stadig blussar...
Gunnar Garfors
Jan 29, 20133 min read


As Scarcely Populated As It Gets
By: Gunnar Garfors. He travelled to 5 continents on June 18 and has been to 190 of the world’s 198 countries. A lot of you out there love...
Gunnar Garfors
Jan 28, 201316 min read


The 25 Least Visited Countries in the World
“The Burning Crater” or “The Door to Hell” in Darvaza, Karakum in Turkmenistan. Photo by Marius Arnesen . Are you up for going on that...
Gunnar Garfors
Jan 22, 201314 min read


Digital Radios Become Cheaper
DAB radios have been more expensive than FM radios, butthe gap is about to narrow. One reason has been the much lower production volume,...
Gunnar Garfors
Jan 18, 20131 min read
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