It is hard to find a more hardworking and humble people on earth than in this region of the world. Life is not easy for them but they do not let it keep them down or bring any negative aspects to their interactions with guests in their respective country. They lead a simple life and are simply kind.

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www.janpetrus.no: - Provence er en reise værdt. Bak Middelhavet, kystbyene, jetsetlivet og kjendisstedene som sluker deg med sine mange tilbud, champagne og Cote Azur, ligger Frankrikes motstykke til Italias Toscana, med sine pidjetrær, vinmarker og vakre landsbyer.

Are you a fan of Bull fighting, or are you against it? The Old traditional Arena in Barcelona was closed a few years ago, and it just reopened this year. The Arena is no longer a Bull fighting stadium, but a brand new shopping mall with many stores, restaurant, museums and even a movie theater. Instead of destroying the old arena, they lifted it up and made it into a shopping mall. The out side, is kept the same to illustrate the old Arena, but the inside is totally transformed. On the top of the Arena you also have a pathway with a great view.

En liten gruppe Ringerikinger tok en rask vestlandstur for å delta i 70 årsfeiring og jammen rakk vi innom mange steder på vår raske tur.
Første stopp i krødsherad hos Hanne Høne. Her ble det vinsmaking.
Neste stopp ble i Gol med besøk hos Skinnfellmakeren.
I full fart over fjellet med sjåfør Leif Skagnæs og før vi visste ordet av det var vi fremme ved stavkirken i Borgund.

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www.janpetrus.no – UNESCO’s konvensjon for vern av verdens kultur- og naturarv, er en viktig vegviser for å kunne oppleve det spesielle. Verden rundt oppsøkes slike steder mer enn alle andre severdigheter. I Norge er hele 8 byggverk og naturperler, hedret med denne ekstraordinære anerkjenning og status. En av de første i Norge var Urnes stavkyrkje på Orneset i Lusterfjorden i Sogn og Fjordane.

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www.janpetrus.no – ”Der ingen kunne tru at nokon skulle bu” finner du klyngetunet Otternes, på veien fra Aurland til Flåm. En smal kjerrevei fører oppover og oppover til en liten parkeringsplass, og så er du der. Her har folk levd og elsket, jobbet og bygd siden 1700-tallet og helt fram til 1980,da Eilert – en av de siste siste otternesere, flyttet på sykehjem.

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TRAVEL / MYBESTJOURNEYS: www.janpetrus.no - Holy places are characterized by a special spirituality and a different energy, which can hardly be measured, but still experienced. For my own part, I have always been attracted to such places, and will for the rest of my life remember: Jeruasalem in Israel and Assisi in Italy and now in Krakow in Poland. - The city is characterized by its unique history from the 1100s through to its position as Poland's cultural capital. Important fragments of city architecture and atmosphere of the Jewish Kazimiersz - district dates back to the 1400s, and its more than 200 churches of all sizes and in all "order" trends in the Catholic Church.

VISITORS and tourists will naturally seek out many of its churches and monasteries. Just as surely, most people will be surprised over the intensity, the atmosphere and the vibrant life for many of them. Even in the largest and most visited: St. Mary's Church, which is also the city's Cathedral in Gothic style, a marvel of worship, prayer meetings and confession that is in constant use, as well as the many concerts, art exhibitions and the monk and nun-clad students that one encounters everywhere. - All this means that no one can visit the city with no sense of faith, power and influence. People use the church every day and every hour throughout the year. Sundays filled the sidewalks that the soccer match of churchgoers on their way to mass. And everywhere lit candles to the Virgin Mary and Pope John Paul II, who was born in the small town of Wadowice, an hour's drive from Krakow, the 18.mai 1920, and as the 1st of May 2011 was beatified by the Vatican as a step on the road to be able to announce him to be St. Johannes. - It's a strange curtain of something historic that we recognize but do not yet know. For award blessed by the pope, who had most of his work here in Krakow, is probably just the beginning of something even bigger.

ALREADY now appears to Pope John Paul II, the purest national saint, with its numerous statues in public spaces, besides the newly papal banners decorate churches and halls anywhere. For my part I will point out that "In particular the cult of Maria with roots in Pope's pious ideals and karmelittiske spirituality seems to put the mark on the city's spiritual life" - is why people say that Pope John Paul II was a true mystic with the motto: "" Totus Tuus Maria / or: "Full and completely yours, Mary" - In this turn of honour from Jesus to Mary, I believe we will experience both a different theology and a longterm policy for peace and reconciliation between the major religions. Which also stated that: Marin Buber-inspired dialogue program of the meeting between my own I and another's YOU, as Pope John Paul II, took the initiative. - Why can not the Pope's importance for Krakow, considered high enough. What happens here will affect us and the Europeans for decades to come. For the holy knows no boundaries, nor in this amazing city! - With best regards / jph

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Roma kan by på det meste av overnattingsalternativer, fra de dyreste hoteller til de rimeligste pensjonater. Du kan også velge å bo i kloster, hvis det skulle behage. Mitt favoritthotell i Roma er Hotel Colonna Palace på Piazza Montecitorio. Ikke av de aller rimeligste, men meget sentralt. Dessuten har de en fantastisk takterrasse der du spiser frokost. Ellers står terrassen til fri disposisjon resten av døgnet. For å få en akseptabel pris bør du bestille via et byrå. De har de beste avtalene. Ta for eksempel kontakt med www.reise.no.

Knaresborough ikke så langt fra York. vi kom med leiebil fra Liverpool og skulle bo på Newton hous som lå i sentrum, et hjemmekoselig hotell.
Dette ble et møte jeg sent vill glemme en koseli by med gamle hus, borg, elv og jernbane. Dette område er vært en foto safari. Jeg var der i slutten av april, tidlig vår med vinter i luften, tulipaner, mandeltre og magnolia blomstret.
Vi dro vidre med tog i postmannpat rik
Hilsen Ellens