27 November 2011

holmenkollen

the ski jump

the metro stop

27 October 2011

fall

the sunrise today was at 08:24. it will go down at 17:35. winter is coming.

17 December 2010

mega transit sign in Oslo!

Today I happened to pass by just as Trafikanten was installing a brand new transit sign at Oslo’s busiest interchange, Jernbanetorget.

This totally made my day! Since every single bus/tram/subway/train in Oslo passes through this station, all their different platforms are spread over a few blocks, both above and underground. Which can be annoying when, like [...]

8 September 2010

trains in china

Trains are a great way to travel within China. There are several different categories of train, as identified through the route number. Routes consisting only of digits (no letters) are the regular, cheapest (and slowest) trains. Train numbers starting with ‘K’ are fast trains (kuai literally means fast), T trains are te-kuai (especially fast), and [...]

17 June 2010

st-siméon ferry

Mixed it up this time on this trip to NB and drove north of the Saint-Laurent instead of the highway south, crossing over to Rivière-du-Loup using the ferry at St-Siméon.

and what a fancy ferry it was! first there were the binoculars and the elevator…

then there was the diner and bar:

and hmm, what else? [...]