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Norway should take over all USAID operations
Norway’s pension fund is the biggest sovereign wealth fund in the world with a value of 2 trillion US dollars. The dividends of 2024 were...
Gunnar Garfors
Feb 93 min read
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The World's 20 Least-visited Countries in 2024
The least-visited country in the world. There are many unknown countries in the world that most of us have never heard about, let alone...
Gunnar Garfors
Jan 322 min read
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We need to fly more for the climate
Don't stay at home out of concern for the climate. Climate hysteria has literally taken off, just like the airplanes we are shamed for...
Gunnar Garfors
Dec 27, 20234 min read
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The 24 Easiest Countries to Visit
You’re not a big fan of bureaucracy, queues or red tape? Or perhaps a slightly paranoid citizen of i.e. North Korea, where travel...
Gunnar Garfors
Oct 4, 20233 min read
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The Cities with the Most Airports in the World
How many airports does your city have? Not as many as the top city on the list. Unless that, by coincicdence, is where you live. And even...
Gunnar Garfors
Sep 27, 20232 min read
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The 6 Cs of Travel
Travelling should be vastly underestimated by anyone who hasn’t properly done it. No? My bet is then that you didn’t go far enough, that...
Gunnar Garfors
Jul 24, 20233 min read
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Ten reasons why guide books are bad for you
Travel guide books. I hate them. I hate them like garden owners hate smelly little apple stealing brats. Guide books reduce your...
Gunnar Garfors
Jul 22, 20235 min read
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The Deliriousness Of Impulsive Travel (DOIT!)
What do you mean you are not impulsive, adventurous, restless or hyperactive? Well, bloody do something about it. Why? Because it is the...
Gunnar Garfors
Jul 22, 20235 min read
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Why Travellers Kiss Better
I was recently interviewed by There She Goes, a magazine targets young women. It is on travel and fashion. I clearly was not interviewed...
Gunnar Garfors
Jul 22, 20234 min read
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Gunnar Garfors in the Media
Garfors has been interviewed and quoted for various reasons by media from a range of countries, and he has written some freelance...
Gunnar Garfors
Jul 22, 20233 min read
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Beyond the Beaten Track
My third book features 81 spectacular places beyond the beaten track in Norway. It was published on April 15 2021 by Skald and is called...
Gunnar Garfors
Mar 31, 20211 min read
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Om sauar og reiseposørar
Kvifor ikkje Ofoten når Lofoten er full? Eller uansett. Tilsvar til “Reiseposørene” på NRK Ytring: Det er interessant å få sin eigen...
Gunnar Garfors
Aug 5, 20204 min read
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The Few Coronavirus Free Countries
Turkmenistan has not reported any cases of the coronavirus. There are now only 12 countries without any coronavirus cases, 10 of them in...
Gunnar Garfors
May 14, 20201 min read
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Finally Travel Stopped
The coronavirus pandemic has abruptly virtually closed down the travel industry. Globetrotters, backpackers, all-inclusive lovers, sun...
Gunnar Garfors
Apr 12, 20204 min read
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No Visitors, No Virus
Outside Bangui in the Central African Republic. There is unsurprisingly a strong correlation between tourist numbers and spread of the...
Gunnar Garfors
Apr 6, 20204 min read
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Travelling While Not
Leptis Magna in Libya. The coronavirus has affected most people’s lives and we would all like the pandemic to end sooner rather than...
Gunnar Garfors
Mar 28, 20207 min read
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Who Deserves Your Aid Money?
In a pygmy village in Central African Republic. Internationally there are thousands and thousands of organizations that provide aid to...
Gunnar Garfors
Jan 19, 20205 min read
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A Third Runway, Anyone?
OSL seen from the north. Creative Commons licensed photo by Avinor. Several airports want to add a third runway, including Oslo Airport...
Gunnar Garfors
Dec 23, 20192 min read
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The Travel Podcast to Everywhere
Musician, comedian and author Kristopher Schau (middle) was our first guest with a live audience in Grefsenkollen, a bar overlooking Oslo....
Gunnar Garfors
Oct 27, 20191 min read
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The World’s 13 Best Countries
The Solomon Islands aren’t too shabby. I love reading about far-flung places, unknown cultures and countries different to my own. But I...
Gunnar Garfors
Sep 22, 20197 min read
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