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Shopping In Bangalore, India

April 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

While we were in India, we of course did some amazing shopping. Coming from Norway which is so expensive, it is so nice to be somewhere where the prices are so much lower :)
The Miss
Kanchan
#6, Ground Floor
P.U. Building,
M.G. Road
Bangalore - 560 001
Sanjay Mehla
Mobile: 9341221883
While we stayed at the ashram we were required to wear [...]

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Tags: India · Travel

India

March 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

So I have not been able to tell you about my first trip to India yet…so finally here it is. I have been trying to decide how to share all the information with you. So what I am going to do is first give just an overview of my whole trip, then I will do [...]

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Tags: Ashram · India · Pictures · Travel

Goodbye Again

March 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Well, it has to be short…but I am going to Rome on short notice. I will be back soon!

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Tags: Travel

Getting A Visa To India

February 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

So we went to apply for our visas to India for our trip coming up. The Indian embassy in Oslo is in a part of town that I had not been before. And to be honest, I was really glad Marius had been there before because I do not know if I would have ever [...]

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Tags: India · Travel

Oh The Irony

January 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Its always a little ironic when a subject comes up and then all of a sudden you see it EVERYWHERE when you never saw it before.
Like I’ve said before I’m going to India in the beginning of March. I have shared that I am going for two weeks at that time, but what I have [...]

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Tags: Travel

Vacations

January 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Well I have this feeling that since I’m leaving Norway soon to go on an adventure in India, I will have a lot of great travel and vacation stories for you soon. But I have had some pretty interesting and funny things happen on vacations in the past too…
I remember one very memorable vacation [...]

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Tags: Travel

Where In The World Is Kristie?

December 22nd, 2007 · 8 Comments

Well, to answer that wonderful question…I have left my new home of Oslo, Norway to spend Christmas with Marius and his family in Lithuania.
As a matter of fact, I am writing this blog post from Vilnius because we just got in (Baltic airlines, at about midnight) and are staying at Marius’ dad’s apartment tonight. We [...]

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Tags: Lithuania · Travel

Going Somewhere Warmer

December 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment

So if Marius and I need a break from Norway and the cold weather here, where should we go? We are up for suggestions. Where is a good place to find sunshine and warm weather in the winter months? Please help!

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Tags: Travel

Leaving Norway?

December 12th, 2007 · No Comments

Well, even though you would not know it by the lack of snow I have seen since I moved here to Norway, it is actually starting to get quite cold. This morning when I got up the temperature was -5 (Celsius) which is like 23 degrees farenheit. It was quite crisp, but beautiful and sunny [...]

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Tags: Travel

Norway’s Weather (Again)

November 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Everyone here in Norway is complaining about the weather and how cold it is constantly. I love it and I am starting to think these people have issues because I think it is beautiful and really dont know what their problem is! If they hate it so much why dont they just move somewhere where [...]

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Tags: Norway · Other · Travel · Weather