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Gunnar Garfors
Mar 11, 20132 min read
Kroes Agrees, the Internet Won’t Solve Everything
Neelie Kroes, the EU Commissioner for Digital Agenda and Vice-Presidents of the European Commission, spoke at the last meeting of Radio...
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Gunnar Garfors
Mar 6, 20133 min read
Guess Which 6 Countries Have No Airports
Yes, such countries do actually exist. There are six of them, five of them are tiny and in Europe. Four of them are inside or very close...
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Gunnar Garfors
Mar 5, 20135 min read
These Airlines Fly to Most Countries
You can measure the size of an airline in many ways. By number of passengers, number of planes, flown passenger kilometers or through...
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Gunnar Garfors
Feb 28, 20136 min read
Sierra Leone, The Land of the Mountain Lions
Sierra Leone translates as the land of the mountain lion. It sounds beautiful and it is. It sounds scary, but it isn’t. Unless you have a...
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Gunnar Garfors
Feb 19, 20132 min read
EBU Recommends FM Switch Off
European Broadcasting Union recommends that European countries switch off FM. The announcement was made during EBU Digital Radio Summit...
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Gunnar Garfors
Feb 4, 20134 min read
Avoiding Airport to City Rip-offs
Somehow is seems that ‘bad apples’ are overrepresented among taxi drivers based in airports. How can you avoid being ripped off by them...
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Gunnar Garfors
Feb 4, 20133 min read
Why Public Transport Beats Airport Taxis
It is often convenient to take a taxi to or from the airport. But there are in my opinion also reasons why you should rather pick public...
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Gunnar Garfors
Feb 1, 20131 min read
The Overcautious People at Lexus
Some companies are more cautious than others. Snow in United Arab Emirates is even rarer than sunshine is in Norway. Not to mention heavy...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jan 31, 20134 min read
The World’s Most Dangerous Countries
Where would you not want to go on holiday? To war zones? They actually aren’t too bad. Considering. Less people are killed in armed...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jan 29, 20132 min read
How to Apply For a Visa to Kiribati
This isn’t my usual blog post, but I found it almost impossible to find out how to apply for a visa to the Republic of Kiribati in the...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jan 29, 20133 min read
Kverulantkampen om kringkastingsavgifta
This post relates to the license funding of Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation and is therefore written in Norwegian. Stadig blussar...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jan 28, 201316 min read
As Scarcely Populated As It Gets
By: Gunnar Garfors. He travelled to 5 continents on June 18 and has been to 190 of the world’s 198 countries. A lot of you out there love...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jan 22, 201314 min read
The 25 Least Visited Countries in the World
Are you up for going on that unique trip that almost no one has done before you? The problem might just be finding the right destination....
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Gunnar Garfors
Jan 18, 20131 min read
Digital Radios Become Cheaper
DAB radios have been more expensive than FM radios, butthe gap is about to narrow. One reason has been the much lower production volume,...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jan 1, 20131 min read
Contact Gunnar Garfors
Get in touch with Gunnar Garfors in one of the following ways: twitter.com/Garfors facebook.com/GunnarGarfors instagram.com/Garfors...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jan 1, 20133 min read
Gunnar Garfors Biography
Me, myself and I. Hello and welcome! My name is Gunnar Garfors and I would really like to get you keen or keener on travelling. Why on...
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Gunnar Garfors
Jan 1, 20132 min read
Why 198 Countries?
I entered the 198th and last country, Cape Verde, on May 8, 2013, as a 37 year-and-344-days-old. That apparantly still make me the...
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Gunnar Garfors
Dec 31, 20123 min read
A Digital Radio, the Best Christmas Present
A lot of people talk to me about digital radio. They know I work with media. Some seems to hate it, others are full of appraisal. But...
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Gunnar Garfors
Nov 20, 20122 min read
The Costly Business of DRM
Digital radio is conquering new countries every year. Most of them (over 40) use digital radio’s de facto standard Eureka 147 (which...
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Gunnar Garfors
Nov 14, 20123 min read
What the Hell is ‘Euro-Chip?’
UPDATE March 20, 2014: Name changed. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has joined forces with the BBC and Deutschlandradio to in a...
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