Testing Stawberrynet.com for the first time

and now I'll test if they will pay me back the customs fee :-)

We saw wolverine today

I had the blue cheese salad

Checking out the new Ostehuset

The article for Ragnhild

or maybe she only drinks Champagne ;-)

I'm now an Executive member in Golden Circle

This is the hotel program for Shangri-La and Traders hotels. But in
retrospect I think we should have gone for Starwood preferred guest.
But Traders in KL is still one of my favourite hotels ;-)

Isioma is celebrating her birthday today

Hurrah

Last day of Stavanger's Wine Festival

Dinner at Sting

Visiting the restaurant Mortepumpen

Nikki is now a SAS Eurobonus gold member

Welcome to the club :-)

First ride of the season

I started the Harley today after it's winter hibernation. But it
started on the first try even after 6 months of being idle. The
weather is not bad at all - about 12 degrees but the sun is warming :-)

Here is the very first start


From Ølberg beach














And finally a self portrait - with my queer pants as Asle calls them. They are called chaps Asle!! ;-)

Olav playing games in the Emirates lounge in Dubai

View to Ski Dubai

The tower seen from a taxi

Burj Dubai seen from The Address hotel

Aquarium at Dubai mall

It can rain hard in Bangkok

Yesterday was a nice, warm and sunny day to start with. All of a sudden in the afternoon it started raining. And when it starts raining here you better be inside or under roof if you don't want to get soaked :-)

Last night in Bangkok

and we are having Italian. Nikki is having frogs legs ;-)

Thailand international open

in sudoku. Olav, you should have been here :-)

Nikki getting a make-up lesson

at Chitlom Central in Bangkok

The Sheraton in Bangkok has an amazing buffet

All you can eat for as low as 130 kr...including lots of seafood,
sushi, meat, cheese etc etc

Self portrait

Having a beer in Bangkok

and listening to Randy Cannon

Lots of stamps in the passport on this trip

We are having seafood tonight

Visiting Killing fields in Cambodia

Not a culinary adventure tonight

We could not find our plan A restaurant so we just had some boring
western food. So Meena, if you have any suggestions we are all ears

Now in Phnom Penh

Angkor Wat at sunset

T-shirt for donating blood

Finally someone that wants my blood :-) After I married Nikki I was banned for life as a blood donor i Norway :-( But I was allowed to donate blood in Siem Reap and I got this t-shirt as a gift after I was done :-)

Scorpion with babies at a temple wall

local wildlife

Smiling face at Angkor Wat

At Angkor Wat

Rooftop bar at the Rex hotel

Where lots of activity took place during the Vietnam war

Local delicassies

It looks like hearts - seen at a local market














And brains(?) as well?














Nikki presenting Jackfruit



















And the local good stuff...rice wine with various ingredients to "spice it" up. I haven't had the nerve to test it yet....

They have great smoothies at a place called Juice

In the lounge at the hotel

In Ho Chi Minh City. Now we are going out to eat. Happy Easter!

Eating "Italian" tonight

We are at a place called ZanZbar tonight and we are eating sort of
Italian and are drinking Masi wine. I guess we should be eating local
Vietnamese but but. Maybe we are inspired by Jon Vidar and Ragnhild...

Traffic in Ho Chi Minh City

An example of traffic in Ho Chi Minh City. If you want to cross the street make sure you look both the right and left because motorcycles comes from all directions...even on the pavement :-)

Gard as passenger on a motorcycle taxi in Ho Chi Minh City

Kate took us around in the city and Nikki got to ride with her on motorcycle. I used a motorcycle taxi and it is a bit of a scary experience :-) Here is a short video that I shot of myself.

Visiting Ben Thanh market in Ho Chi Minh City

We came there just in time as it started pouring down right after we parked the bike. But we needed some time there to look around anyway...and to eat some lunch. We had a local dish called Pho. Here is Kate - our local guide in HCMC. Thanks for taking us around Kate...and even on your birthday :-)

Rooftop pool at our hotel

Not sure how i ended here

But the owner of the Blue Gecko I'd celebrating his birthday

Party in HCMC

We are celebrating Kate's birthday today

We met up with Kate in HCMC

She is an old school mate from South Africa

Trying the local beer

Trying Saigon beer for the first time

More river view from the hotell