Lykke Li live

Wednesday was the night I finally saw Lykke Li live in Paradiso (Amsterdam), after waiting for some months. And it was sooooooo worth the wait, she had everybody dancing from the start and definitely knows how to pull a good show!

She was playing in the small room upstairs in Paradiso & it was sold out! Not that weird considering she's being hyped in some magazines and apparently did a great performance at the Lowlands festival in August. Fun thing was that I had someone asking me how to get a ticket on Facebook and there were people asking us if we had a spare ticket in front of the door...hehe...but she's coming back, on december 6th...doing a concert at 01:00 at night which is actually the 7th then, which makes it my b-day....i should go again!!!




















Tonight it's another gig, Melee! And somehow i managed to win a meet&greet for this one haha! Kinda weird, i'm not calling myself a fan of them & i have actually met them before (at the Rockin'Par festival when they were watching Counting Crows almost next to us after their own show there), but it's gonna be fun!

I'm off to Oslo tomorrow morning, have to do some networking with uni contact's at the KILROY roadshow there. Flying home again Sunday afternoon, am meeting with my friend Jiska before and hopefully we will have some time to visit the new Oslo Opera it looks absolutely fantastic!














Next week we are really going to launch KILROY education Netherlands, the website & brochure will be ready, we're going to send out a newsletter & pressrelease and i have my first fair in Amsterdam! It'll actually be the study abroad fair of the university & college of Amsterdam, a fair that i've been at a couple of times with my old job...it's gonna be nice to be back there!

Busy busy busy....but loving it!

sydney - hong kong - amsterdam - oslo

leaving australia after 3 months was strange, arriving in the madhouse that's called hong kong was even weirder especially since it was one hot & steamy madhouse, coming home a few days later was actually not that weird at all...what made it madness was that i hardly had 3 days before i was off again, this time to norway with 38 guests following me.

my jetlag was still there, my cold was horrible and my ankles were still swollen...but i had a great week, thanks to a nice & funny driver, a great group and weather that cleared every day!

now i'm home, for 4 days until i'm off to the north again. next week i'll only have 15 guests (what?!) & we'll start in stockholm, yay!




from hong kong to the fjords within a week: different countries, different scenery!

back again

came back from oslo on friday afternoon, said my goodbyes to the guests at the luggage belt (my backpack came out quickly this time) and then took the train...home!
had a lovely relaxed weekend again...something you really need after this job...slept a LOT too :)

after my last blog we travelled from stavanger to kristiansand, a wonderful route along the south coast of norway...one moment we saw sand strands and little dunes, they then changed into rocks and before we knew it we were in the middle of some fjords again!
the road was kind of narrow there at some points...which is no problem until there's cars from the other side coming...svein had to work hard to get us and the bus safely over all these fjords, which resulted in a big aplause for him in the end of the day when we arrived in kristiansand. in kristiansand i took the guests for an hour walk through town before my day was officially over, it's a lovely town though not as nice as stavanger.
from kristiansand we continued to oslo on thursday, we visited some lovely towns along the coast in the morning (grimstad & arendal) and then went to porsgrunn where we visited the porcelain fabric. to be honest i'm not much of a porcelain girl but it was an interesting guided tour we got there, cool to see how they make everything & hand paint some of the stuff.

late in the afternoon we arrived in oslo, same hotel as week before so that was easy. on my last night in oesloe i met up with jiska again...first plan had been to party...hard :P but that was a bit too much for me, so we just went for another drink instead...was lovely again, we had a good laugh about...everything actually haha! takk jis, det var greitt! ;)

and then it was friday morning and i packed my bag for the last time for this trip!

and here are some pix of my last 2 weeks in the north:















stockholm!














gamla stan & me in my new dress!














with linda in stocktown














with jiska in oesloe



















the karl johan in oslo














vigelandsparken














lovely fence














view on oslo from holmenkollen ski-jump














telemark kanal














heddal stavkirke














lunchtime in sand














THE view, from my room in stavanger














stavanger harbour



















preikestolen



















a troll in stavanger














me at lindesnes, NO's most southern point (over 2500 km from the northcape!)

my colleague svein