It is quite rare to see Bedouins come to Northern Europe looking for patches of sand to explore. Just about as rare as seeing Norwegians...

The question following any plane crash, especially in the so called industrialized or western world where flying “should be safe”, does...

Travel guide books. I hate them. I hate them like garden owners hate smelly little apple stealing brats. Guide books reduce your...

Name a continent. All of them have a human history going back thousands and thousands of years. Except for the only uninhabited one....

I don’t write about religion, I write about travel and media. But here we go. I have met thousands of people from every country in the...

Yes, so I fly. A lot. Does that make me a bad person? The reason why island nations around the world are “sinking“? One of the most...

Det er enkelte bokmeldarar som har fått med seg at eg har skrive mi første bok, “198 – Mi reise om alle verdas land”. Dei fleste av dei...

Øystein is my brother. Or one of them, at least. I have three brothers and three sisters. Øystein Garfors (born in Hammerfest, Norway in...

The radio listening figures for the last three months made Ole Jørgen Torvmark a happy man. Over 50% of Norwegians now listen to digital...

Hurrah! The top travel list of Lonely Planet is out for next year, and my country is on the list! Oh, wait. There isn’t only one list....

Det høyrest ut som rein desperasjon. Og det er det. Men nauda lærer naken kall å selje tjall. Boka mi “198” kom ut 18. september. Det er...

This site had one million hits in 2013, most of them for travel related posts. I regularly receive offers from guest writers, promising...

Having visited every country in the world makes me prone to receive a particular question. What next? I luckily have no problems coming...

Yay! We managed to visit 19 countries in 23 hours and 33 minutes, all in one day on September 21. That’s a world record. See how we did...

We tried before, and managed 17 countries in 24 hours. But sharing world records isn’t quite our cup of tea, so we will try again. You...

Boka mi “198” om mi reise til alle verdas land kjem ut på torsdag. Korleis kunne ho vel betre lanserast enn å reise til alle Noregs...

I have a new hobby; Collecting reviews and readers’ feedback of “198: How I Ran Out of Countries*”. REVIEWS /// BOKMELDINGAR I loved this...

Two friends and I equalled a world record in May. We visited 17 countries in 24 hours, the same as four friends managed in 2012. But I...

I boka si ånd vert det feil å ha lansering berre éin stad. Torsdag 18. september startar lanseringsturnéen med morgonkaffi i Naustdal før...

So, I have written a book. It will come to Norwegian book shops on September 18. And yet, I am working on the English translation too. I...