Susi’s Souvenirs

Washington DC: More than museums and monuments

2008-01-04T22:14:46Z

Washington DC is better than its reputation: It is said to be a cold city populated with politicians and all kinds of parasites that come to live off them. That's not necessarily a bad thing: To visit White House and Capitol Hill, to see where the...

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Beautiful Prague

2008-01-04T21:15:31Z

I'm catching up on my blogging: Here are my impressions from a long weekend in Prague in August of 2007. To state it bluntly, Prague is everything it's cranked up to be :) People come to Prague for the history, the architecture, the beer. And th...

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More Berlin Photos

2007-12-09T20:09:06Z

I'm testing Pictobrowser, a cool tool that lets me add photos from flickr to my Vox blog (the flickr badges don't work on accord of a CSS conflict). Here are more of my best Berlin photos:

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My Best Berlin Photos

2007-12-09T19:57:38Z

I visited Berlin during the last days of November. The weather was cold and clear and even though I was there to attend a conference, I had the chance to take a day off and see some of Berlin's sites. Some of the highlights were lunch in the cool...

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Summer memories from Thailand

2007-11-10T16:36:17Z

Today, when I was out for my Saturday walk, there was ice on the fjord for the first time this year. That means it's time to brace for winter by delighting in summer memories. This summer we visited Thailand for the first time. It was one of my ...

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Impressions from Manhattan

2007-06-03T19:27:12Z

I recently visited New York City. It was both exciting and exhausting. NYC has more inhabitants than all of my home country, Norway. They are all crammed into skyscrapers, it seems, or fighting to get into one of the ubiquitous yellow cabs. I l...

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An insider's guide to Oslo

2007-05-28T09:47:19Z

My friend Tor has a great blog, Enjoy Food & Travel, where he blogs about recipes and food stories, travels, hotels, sights and more. Tor lives in Oslo and being a historian, he knows things about this city that many other people don't. In his ...

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QotD: How I'll Spend My Summer Vacation

2007-05-18T19:27:56Z

Are you taking a vacation this summer (or this season)? Where are you headed and who's going with you? My husband and I are going to Thailand. 3 weeks! We'll spend a whole week in Bangkok first. Then we go south to Koh Samui to relax after w...

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I love Paris in the spring time

2007-05-18T18:05:09Z

Well, I love Paris whatever the season, but here's a little show -- impressions of the colors and moods of springtime Paris -- from snaps I took when I was there in April. The photos are from my walks on Montmartre, in Passy and along the Seine....

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Summer of 2006 Revisited

2007-04-28T18:29:37Z

These are my favorite photos from my glorious 3 week holiday on Costa Brava in Spain in the summer of 2006. We stayed in Tossa de Mar, which is a pretty place with two good beaches, some excellent sea food restaurants and great hiking in the hi...

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