And the winner is:

Craft Black Lager

(Try all the other Craft variants as well!)

Axioma Ethica Odini

From the Norwegian Heavy Metal band Enslaved. To be released next monday their pretty awesome new album “Axioma Ethica Odini”.  I guess quite a few people out there are waiting for this. I have had a sneak peak/listen and it sounds very promising. Buy or Die!

Will be added to http://www.islandwalking.com/piwigo/index.php?/category/82. This is in conjunction with the previously mentioned “Kjentmannsmerket” (see below). Not all the photos might not be of any particular interest since their purpose is just to document the specific sites visited. Also the actual information post will be censored away, since these show the code serving as proof of your visit. So unfortunately the pictures are then lacking their most important context, this is accessible with username/password only. I cannot show the whole thing in public before three years have gone and the posts are down.

Report from my visit to Barcelona and whatever is reachable within in hour or so from the city is ready at http://islandwalking.com/barcelona.html.

Well, from Barcelona and surrounding areas in Catalunya. There is spectacular walking e.g in the mountains of Montserrat. See http://www.islandwalking.com/piwigo/index.php?/category/83.

I actually never understood that frog trap in Riven. Shame on me. It has taken me a couple of years to catch my first frog…

BTW, the current Riven X can be downloaded from http://www.devklog.net/rivenx/.

(Of course you will need the actual game too)

Gaea is another interesting company with good products. The picture shows their Kalamata Extra Virgin olive oil, but they also have a superb olive oil from Crete. Based in Agrinion on the Greek mainland and should be available throughout most of Europe.

In my mind, Greek olive oil is the best in the world (what did you expect?). And it is not even expensive, usually. But which of these treats are readily available in your local supermarket at home? Usually quite a lot, in fact. I am fond of Kalamata olive oil and one company from that town that exports across Europe is AGROVIM S.A. Their Iliada brand should be available maybe even in several qualities in a store near you.

Kjentmannsheftet 2010-2012

Again, for more information about “Kjentmannsmerket”, see Bernhard Herres hjemmeside for Kjentmannsmerket. Recently totally refurbished pages now with information about all the walks also in English. More information about my walks (in Norwegian only) can as usual be found at http://islandwalking.com/marka.html. The grand opening of the new season will be on Sunday 5th of September, at “Langliadammen” north in Sørkedalen. Get more info about that from Skiforeningen (in Norwegian only).

I think it’s time we had some nice OT again. Remember the 90’s game Myst? What about Riven (Myst 2, or “The sequel to Myst”)? Riven is just about the most fantastically designed game ever, both in sound and vision. I have seen developments of a Riven X to be able to play this game on today’s Macintosh computers, but thought the project might have been abandoned by now. How wrong I was, Riven X has now reached 0.9.6 and is actually already fully playable. And on a modern screen it has of course never looked better.