Marius
Near Kirkenes 2009. Click on the photo for more.
Uncle Travelling Marius' Words of Wisdom
| 3. Aug '77 | It all starts in Nordreisa. | |
| Aug '77 - Jul '80 | Learning to walk and talk among reindeer. | |
| Jul '80 - 21. Jul 1995 | Kirkenes. (Here is an alternative view.) Biking, skiing, swimming, soccer and environmentalism. Later alcohol came onto the stage... | |
| 22. Jul '95 - 17. Mar '97 | Brazil. Lived in Santo André (São Paulo) as an exchange student , later I started teaching English. Travelled around a bit too, among others two quite extensive trips: Jan '96: São Paulo - Belo Horizonte - Ouro Preto - Brasília - Chapada Diamantina - Maceió - Fortaleza - Canoa Quebrada - Salvador - Porto Seguro - Rio de Janeiro - Angra dos Reis; Dec '96 - Feb'97: São Paulo - Ilha do Mel - Ilhabela *** - Cabo Frio - Guarapari- Porto Seguro (Carnaval ***) | |
| 17. Mar '97 - 7. Apr '97 | Working my way north on the container/cruisevessel Americana: Santos - Vitória - Puerto Cabello (Venezuela) - Vera Cruz (Mexico) - New Orleans. | |
| 7. Apr '97 - 10. May '97 | New Orleans - Saint Augustine - Miami Beach - Key West - Charleston - Washington DC - Boston - Shelbourne - New York |
| May '97 - Aug '98 | Back in Kirkenes to finish high school, worked a bit, made a quick Brazilian holiday for Carnaval (São Paulo - São Sebastião). |
| Aug '98 | A couple of calm weeks in Denmark. |
| Aug '98 - Jun '99 | Tromsø, Norway. College. A three year study of navigation and marine engineering. Five weeks in Brazil around Christmas and New Year; São Paulo - Caraguatatuba - Rio de Janeiro - Cabo Frio - São Paulo. |
| 4. Jul '99 - 2. Nov '99 | Got a long-term contract with the shipping company Bergesen. On board the 323.000 dwt oil tanker Settebello as a deck cadet (trainee): Port Said (Egypt) - Al Bakhr (Iraq) - Off California (lightering) - Al Bakhr again - Cape Town. |
| 2. Nov '99 - 5. Nov '99 | Happy Days of Freedom in Cape Town. |
| 6. Nov '99 - 16 Mar'00 | Managua(Nicaragua) - Granada *** - Isla de Ometepe - San Juan del Sur - Montezuma (Costa Rica) - San José - Havana (Cuba)- Varadero - Playa Giron - Jaguey Grande - Isla de la Juventud *** - Havana - São Paulo (Brasil) - Patos de Minas - Rio de Janeiro (New Year ***) - Cabo Frio - Macaé - Anchieta - Vitória - Itaúnas - Conceição da Barra - Ilheus - Itacaré - Morro de São Paulo - Salvador - Praia do Forte - Aracaju - Maceió - Aracaju - Recife / Olinda (Carnaval ***) |
| 16. Mar '00 - 14. Jul '00 | On board the 75.000 cbm gas carrier "Berge Clipper": Suape (Brasil) - Santos - Yanbu (Saudi Arabia) - Ulsan (South Korea) - Oita (Japan) - Bandar Imam Khomeyni (Iran) - Namikata (Japan) - Kawasaki - Singapore. |
| 14. Jul '00 - 16. Jul '00 | Happy days of Freedom in Singapore |
| 17.Jul '00 - 14. Aug '00 | Eastern Europe: Budapest *** - Bratislava - Brno - Krakow - Wroclaw *** - Praha. |
| Aug '00 - Jun '01 | Tromsø for second year of college. |
| 8. Apr - 24 Apr '01 | Portugal: Porto - Coímbra - Lisbon - Lagos - Évora - Lisbon |
| 28. Jun - 4. Aug '01 | The Baltics: Tallin *** - Parnu - Viljandi - Tartu - Riga *** - Klaipeda - Kaliningrad - Svetlogorsk - Vilnius - Kaunas - Warzawa - Poznan - Gdansk -Warzawa. |
| 5. Aug - 2. Oct '01 |
On board the 75.000 cbm gas carrier "Berge Captain" (Clipper's sister). Signed on in Singapore - New York (via Cape Town) - Setúbal (Portugal, for drydock) |
| Oct '01 - May '02 | Last round of college in Tromsø |
| 20. Dec '01 - 26. Feb '02 | Rio - São Paulo - Fortaleza - Natal - Pipa - Joã Pessoa *** - Aracaju - Salvador - Bom Despacho (Itaparica) - Valença - Morro de São Paulo - Porto Seguro (carnaval) - Joã Pessoa - Cabeceiras/Serra Branca - Rio |
| 03. May '02 | Got my final project approved by the college. 15 years of school finally came to an end. Heavy partying!!! |
| 05. May '02 - 02. Sep '02 | I'm in Budapest. Rented an apartment and did an intensive course in Hungarian. Explored the city, and did daytrips to Szentendre, Esztergom and Diósjenç. Longer trips were Bratislava - Wien - Sopron - Gyór , Szeged - Pécs, Kosice - Miskolc - Eger and London. I think I'll have to come back to these parts for more. |
| 02. Sep - 31. Oct '02 | On board the 35.000 cbm gas carrier "Hedda" cruising the North Sea. Signed on in Brevik (Porsgrunn, Norway) - Braefoot Bay (Edinburgh) - Le Havre - Donges (France) - Kårstø (Haugesund, Norway) - Antwerpen - Braefoot Bay - Stenungsund (Sweden) - Kårstø - Rafnes (Porsgrunn) - Kårstø - Antwerpen - Brunsbuttel (Germany) - Braefoot Bay |
| 01. Nov '02 | Breathing rainy air of freedom in Edinburgh |
| 02. Nov '02 - 07. Mar '03 | Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Colonia de Sacramento (Uruguay) - Montevideo - Porto Alegre (Brasil) - Florianópolis - João Pessoa - Maceió - São Paulo - Joinville - Camburiu(2002 winds up as probably the best year so far. Much due to the workload: 6 weeks of studies and 2 months sailing, and the rest was all mine) - Aracaju - João Pessoa - Porto de Galinhas - João Pessoa - Natal - João Pessoa - Maceió - Aracaju- Salvador (Carnaval) - João Pessoa |
| 09. Mar '03 - 09. Jul '03 | On board the 323.000 dwt oil tanker "Berge Banker" (Settebello's sister): Bahrain (dry dock)- Juaymah (Saudi Arabia) - LOOP (New Orleans) - (Mid-May, Mid-Atlantic, I finally got my navigational officer's certificate, and a promotion to 4th officer.) Sidi Kerir (Egypt) - Siracusa (Sicily) - Fujairah (UAE). |
| 10. Jul '03 - 19. Sep '03 | Budapest - Debrecen (I'm taking this Hungarian course.).HOME IS WHERE YOUR HEART IS! So I am in Budapest now, indefinitely. |
| 19. Sep '03 - 14. Dec 03 | On board the 306.000 dwt oil tanker "Berge Stavanger": Fujairah (UAE)- Halul (Qatar) - Jebel Dannah (UAE) - Khark (Iran)- Tabangao (Batangas, Phillipines) - Al Basrah (Iraq) - Ain Sukhna (Egypt) - Manama (Bahrain, drydock, promoted to 3rd officer.) |
| 15. Dec '03 - 25. Mar '04 | Back in a colder Budapest. A weekend of carnival in Venezia. |
| 26. Mar '04 - 03. May '04 | On board the 323.000 dwt oil tanker "Folk Sea" (Banker's sister): Galveston (USA) - Bonaire (Nederlandse Antillen) - Singapore. |
| 05. May '04 - 07. Jul '04 | Basecamp Budapest. 10 days in Croatia mid-June: Dubrovnik - Korcula - Hvar - Split. A week in good old Kirkenes, Norway early July. |
| 07. Jul '04 - 10. Sep '04 | Cruising the North Sea with Hedda, two years after: Kårstø (Haugesund, Norway) - Stenungsund (Sweden) - Kårstø - Stenungsund - Kårstø - Rafnes (Porsgrunn, Norway) - Braefoot Bay (Edinburgh, Scotland) - North Tees (Middlesbrough, England) - Kårstø - Rafnes - Braefoot Bay - North Tees - Braefoot Bay - Terneuzen (Netherlands) - Braefoot Bay - Vlissingen (Netherlands) |
| 10. Sep '04 - 23. Nov '04 | Oslo and Trondheim for a prolonged week before Budapest and marathon. Later Wien, Cyprus and London. |
| 23. Nov '04 - 31. Jan '05 | Back on Hedda: Braefoot Bay - Milford Haven (Wales) - Kårstø - Vlissingen - Le Havre - Braefoot Bay - Europort (Rotterdam) - Karstø - Rafnes - Kårstø - Vlissingen - Le Havre - Braefoot Bay - Fawley (Southampton) - Gijon (Spain) - Kårstø - Le Havre - Donges - Braefoot Bay - Milford Haven - Kårstø. |
| 31. Jan '05 - 10. Apr '05 | Winding up in Budapest, then due south: São Paulo - Porto Seguro (Carnaval) - João Pessoa - Rio - Angra dos Reis ***- Ilha Grande - São Paulo - Ubatuba ***- São Paulo - Guaratuba - São Paulo |
| 11. Apr '05 - 16. Apr '05 | Briefly onboard Hedda again: Petit Couronne (Rouen, France) - Karstø |
| 16. Apr '05 - 22. Sep '05 | Oslo, Tønsberg and Budapest, then back south: São Paulo - Londrina - Foz do Iguaçu - Asunción (Paraguai) - Resisténcia (Argentina) - Santiago del Estero - Salta - San Pedro de Atacama (Chile, my first earthquake, thought I was dreaming)- Calama (Another earthquake, thought it was a truck)- Iquiqui - Arica - Arequipa (Peru) - Chivay - Arequipa - Cusco - Ollontaytambo - Aguas Calientes (Macchu Picchu***) - Puerto Maldonado - Rio Branco (Brasil) - Porto Velho - Ji-Paraná - Vilhena - Cuiabá - Rio Verde - Goiás - Goiânia - Gurupi - Palmas - São Paulo - Ubatuba - Angra dos Reis - Rio de Janeiro - Goiânia - Brasília - São Paulo |
| 23. Sep '05 - 7. Jan '06 | It´s bye bye Bergesen and hello to white-uniformed glamour. Signing on Royal Caribbean´s 2000-passenger "Legend of the Seas" in Southampton, after a night at Heathrow: Praia da Rocha (Portimão, Portugal) - Gibraltar - Civitavecchia (Italy) - Villefranche (Nice, France) - Barcelona - Lisboa - Vigo (Spain) - STO - Vigo - Lisboa - Cádiz (Spain) - Lanzarote (Canary Islands) - Las Palmas - Tenerife - La Palma - Funchal (Madeira) - STO - Vigo - Philipsburg (St. Maarten) - Charlotte Amalie (St. Thomas) - San Juan (Puerto Rico) - Tampa (Florida) - George Town (Cayman Islands) - Costa Maya (Mexico) - Belize City (Belize) - Cozumel (Mexico) - Tampa (...and another eight Tampa-cruises before signing off) |
| 8. Jan '06 - 17. Mar '06 | São Paulo - Parati - Angra dos Reis - Rio de Janeiro - Cabo Frio - Olinda (Carnaval***) - Maragogi - Maceió - Aracaju - Brasília - São Paulo |
| 18. Mar '06 - 24. Jun '06 | Legend of the Seas again: Four runs Tampa - George Town - Costa Maya - Cozumel - Belize City, then Tampa - Key West - Bermuda - Ponta Delgada (Azores) - Vigo - STO - St. Peter Port (Guernsey) - Cobh (Cork, Ireland) - STO - St. Peter Port - Brest (France) - Vigo - Lisboa - Cadiz - Lanzarote - Las Palmas - Tenerife - Santa Cruz - Funchal - STO - Vigo St. Peter port - STO - Praia da Rocha - Gibraltar - Civitavecchia - Villefranche - Ajaccio (Corsica) - Barcelona - Lisboa - Vigo - STO - Malaga - Barcelona - Villefranche - Ajaccio - Palma de Mallorca (Spain) - Gibraltar - Lisboa - Vigo - STO |
| 24. Jun '06 - 05. Dec '06 | London - Gent (Belgium) - Brussel - Munchen - Tübingen - Stockholm - Oslo - Tønsberg - Larvik - Trondheim - Mo i Rana - Brønnøysund - Kirkenes - São Paulo - Fortaleza (base camp) |
| My own map of the city. Doubleclick to zoom in! Click here for a full size map |
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| 05. Dec '06 - 20. Apr '07 | Buenos Aires - Rosário - Cordoba *** - BA - Mar del Plata - Necochea (craziest hail storm ever)- MdP - San Bernardo - MdP - BA - Montevideo - Punta del Leste - Fortaleza - Watching over some Norwegian tourists: (São Paulo - Foz do Iguaçu - Manaus - Fortaleza - Rio de Janeiro (Carnaval)) - Cabo Frio - Angra dos Reis - Fortaleza |
| 21. Apr '07 - 24. Jul '07 | Back cruising Legend again: Tampa Key West - Charleston - Ponta Delgada (Azores) - Lisboa - Gibraltar - Tangier (Morocco) - Barcelona - Cannes -Livorno (Italy) - Civitavecchia (CVA, Italy) - Dubrovnik (Croatia) - Venezia - Split (Croatia) - Corfu (Greece) - Katakolon - Santorini - Napoli - CVA - Mykonos (Greece) - Kusadasi (Turkey) - Rhodos - Limassol (Cyprus) - Alexandria - Athens - Napoli - CVA - Portofino (Genova) - Livorno - Napoli - Split - Venezia - Dubrovnik - Messina (Italy) - CVA - Mykonos - Kusadasi - Rhodos - Limassol - Alexandria - Athens - Napoli - CVA - Livorno - Barcelona - Cannes - CVA - Santorini - Athens - Napoli - CVA - Mykonos - Kusadasi - Rhodos - Limassol - Alexandria - Athens - Napoli - CVA - Portofino - Livorno - Messina - Split. |
| 24. Jul '07 - 27. Jul '07 | Hot days of cold in Split. Soooo nice to be off though. |
| 28. Jul '07 - 03. Sep '07 | Fortaleza - Sobral - Jericoacoara - Camocim - Parnaóba - Paulino Neves - Atins - Barreirinhas - São Luís - Capanema - Salinópolis - Belém - Fortaleza. |
| Sep-Nov '07 | Chilling in Fortaleza |
| 1. Dec '07 - 9. Mar '08 | Onboard "Splendour of the Seas" (Legend´s sister) for its South American season: Malaga (Spain) - Casablanca - Lisboa - Funchal (Madeira) - Santa Cruz (Canary Islands) - Mindelo (Cape Verde) - Recife (Brazil) - Salvador - Rio de Janeiro - Santos - Buenos Aires - Montevideo - Porto Belo (Brasil) - Ilhabela - Santos - Buzios - Rio (New Year!) - Porto Belo - Ilha de Santa Catarina - Ilhabela - Santos - Rio - Buenos Aires - Montevideo - Porto Belo - Santos - Buzios - Cabo Frio - Parati - Ilhabela - Santos - Buenos Aires - Montevideo - Porto Belo - Ilhabela - Santos - Buzios - Cabo Frio - Parati - Ilhabela - Santos - Rio (Carnival!) - Salvador - Ilheus - Buzios - Santos - Rio - Buenos Aires - Montevideo - Ushuaia (Arg) - Punta Arenas (Chile) - Puerto Montt - Valparaíso - Coquimbo - Puerto Montt - Punta Arenas - Ushuaia - Purto Madryn - Montevideo - Buenos Aires |
| 9. Mar '08 - 19. Jun '08 | Buenos Aires - São Paulo - Guarapari (I quit my job, what a relief!)- Santiago (Chile) - Valparaíso *** - La Serena - Antofagasta - San Pedro de Atacama - Laguna Colorada (Bolivia) - Salar de Uyuni - Uyuni - Tupiza - Potosí - Sucre - Cochabamba (Learning to fly!) - La Paz - Isla del Sol - Copacabana - Puno (Peru) - Arequipa - El Misti - Huacachina - Lima - São Paulo . |
| 20. Jun '08 - 26. Sep 08 | Back to cargo that doesn't talk: Signing on Wilhelmsen´s "Tampa" in Long Beach (USA) - Colon (Panama) - Miami - Savannah - Newark - Norfolk - Baltimore - Zeebrugge (Belgium) - Bremerhaven (Germany) - Southampton - Zeebrugge - Baltimore - Savannah - Colon - Pitcairn - Auckland - Brisbane (Australia) - Port Kembla (Wollongong) - Melbourne - Fremantle (Perth) - Singapore |
| 28. Sep '08 - 19. Feb '09 | Home at last: Fortaleza!!! A few quickies to Canoa Quebrada. |
| 19. Feb '09 - 24. Mar '09 | Olinda (Carnival ***) - João Pessoa - Campina Grande - Sousa - Juazeiro do Norte - Crateús - Teresina - Piripiri - Parnaíba - Paulino Neves - Barreirinhas - São Luís - Fortaleza |
| 26. Mar '09 - 21. Apr '09 | Onboard the Norwegian coastal tanker Lista: Harstad - Bodø - Skålevik (Bergen) - Slagentangen (Tønsberg) - Oslo - Slagen - Skålevik - Mongstad - Kristiansund - Trondheim - Ålesund - Slagen - Oslo - Slagen - Skålevik |
| 22. Apr '09 - 1. Jun '09 | Bergen - Sevilla - Jerez de la Frontera - Cádiz - Marbella - Málaga - Antequera - Granada - Alicante - Valéncia - Barcelona - Zaragoza - Madrid - London |
| 1. Jun '09 - 15. Jul '09 | Lista again (A record-breaking tour: 1 week without internet, and 6 without a drop of ethanol): Slagen - Antwerpen - Slagen - Skålevik - Mongstad - Trondheim - Ålesund - Slagen - Skålevik - Mongstad - Trondheim - Harstad - Bodø - Slagen - Skålevik - Mongstad - Trondheim - Ålesund - Kårstø - Slagen |
| 15. Jul '09 - 11. Aug '09 | Trondheim - Brønnøysund - Mo i Rana - Tromsø - Kirkenes |
| 11. Aug '09 - 8. Sep `09 | ...and again: Ålesund - Slagen - Skålevik - Mongstad - Trondheim - Harstad - Bodø - Slagen - København - Slagen - Skålevik - Mongstad |
| 8. Sep '09 - 6. Oct '09 | Bergen - Trondheim - Stavanger - Kristiansand - Larvik - Moss - Oslo - Amsterdam |
| 6. Oct '09 - 4. Nov '09 | ..and one last round on Lista: Slagen - Skålevik - Mongstad - Trondheim - Ålesund - Slagen - Oslo - Slagen - Skålevik - Mongstad - Trondheim - Harstad - Bodø - Slagen - Oslo - Slagen |
| 5. Nov '09 - 10. Feb '10 | Back in Foretaleza! I am renting out apartments here. |
| 10. Feb '10 - 27. Feb. 10 | Carnival in Guarapari, then Rio de Janeiro - Tres Rios and São Paulo |
| 27. Feb '10 - | Fortaleza again. |
| Next big loop | Quito - Cali - Bogotá - Medellin - Cartagena - Baranquilla - Mérida (Venezuela) - Caracas - Ciudad Bolivar - Santa Helena (Angel Falls and Mount Roraima) - Boa Vista (Brasil) - - Presidente Figueredo - Manáus - Parintins - Santarem - Alter do Chão - Macapá - Belém - São Luís - Fortaleza |
| Sometime in the future | Trans-Siberian Railway; Each and every Brazilian state (2 to go); Australia and New Zealand; US East and West, Canada, West Africa, Madagascar, Iceland and any other tempting corner of the globe. Honeymoon at Fernando de Noronha (Brasil). |
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