At the fear of making too many English mistakes I will let the photos speak for themselves...

Chinese furniture packaging

Don't let the trail do what?

Ok, get it, kinda...

Wtf? Fuertaventura really needs a new translator!

Is that a dating service for brain dead people or a burger shop?

Too much confusion. Oh well, a coupon that lets you buy a glass of win will fix it!

Why would anyone want beer when they can get a glass of win?

It is that time of the year again. The time when the gym all of a sudden becomes crowded by people that honestly think that this year will be different. That they will magically change and stop being couch potatoes. It is that time when there are hordes of people walking at snail speed on the treadmill for hours on end not really doing anything but watching TV. The time when every exercise equipment is decorated with an out-of-shape person resting because they are too lazy or selfish to stand up between their reps and let others get on with their exercising.

So in an effort to avoid a massive crowd at the gym I am giving you one really good reason why YOU shouldn't start exercising this January.

Exercising is not environmentally friendly!

Here are few reasons why exercising is not good for the environment:

• You need to shower more often which in turn makes you use up more hot water, more shampoo etc.
• You need to wash your clothes more often which uses water, electricity, laundry detergents and wears them out quicker.
• You use up your shoes faster.
• You burn more calories and unless you are dieting that makes you eat more, hence more food production is needed and that pollutes.
• If you build muscles you start burning more hence more polluting food production is needed.
• If you use equipment at the gym like the treadmill you use polluting electricity.

So if you care about the environment the only sensible thing is just to stay on your couch... Sure your TV uses up some electricity too but maybe you could replace it with a book? Or just sit there and stare out into the air like you do at the gym anyway.

I think I will keep destroying the environment at the gym this year though it is tempting to use this excuse myself :) . Just please people don't rest on the exercise equipment and have a Happy New Year!

I watched this video before the election and found it a bit too silly. That was untill I saw interviews with people that were shaking, crying and thinking their country was going under after Obama won and realized that it wasn't as far off as I thought.

See the video

Haven't we all wished for a beauty queen that didn't just want world peace?

Well it looks like we just got one and it is just scary!

I am normally not a big fan of Berlusconi but this one time I think he might be onto something :D

This blogging thing isn't coming back to me as naturally as I had hoped. I have started some entries but find it difficult to sit down to finish them.

Until I get off my ass... or actually until I get onto my ass, here is the funniest English translation we saw in Guadeloupe at the Fort Fleur d'Epee.

One thing I always do before going on vacation is to worry myself senseless about various silly things. It struck me today I wasn't the only one worrying and I started wondering whether this is something people feel like they have to do to cap their excitement? The Web is full of travel material, but what you should stress about before going to different places is never covered. So to help other people that are planning on traveling to the Caribbean, I thought I should compile a checklist of some good but useless things to worry about.

* Worry about sharks attacking you. If it feels unreal I recommend watching Into the Blue which apparently is filmed somewhere in the Caribbean or maybe Jaws.

* Read a book by a local author that isn't particularly fond of their home country. For Antigua I recommend A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid. That gives you scary information about how the locals will despise you, enlightens you about where the stuff you flush down the toilet goes, highlights the shortcomings of the local hospitals, and even mentions something about feeding tourists with broken glass...

* Start focusing on the weather. Keep checking the weather and extensively discuss with your travel partner every time the temperature is under the average, it rains, or when it is cloudy. You know you are successful when you start dreaming about minus degrees and wake up whimpering about it.

* If you have to transit between two airports, use it for all its worth. Expect that you get the baggage late, that you cannot find the bus, that nobody speaks English to help you, that you have just missed the bus when you find it, that there is a traffic jam between the airports, and that you of course will miss the flight. Worry that the later flight that day is overbooked or that the airline tries to blame you for being late and forces you to buy a new flight at very steep prices.

* Worry that the hotel has lost your booking and that you have to pay a fortune for a new place to stay at.

* Worry that the local Caribbean airline you plan on flying with goes bankrupt when you read that they are having problems with striking workers and costs.

* Worry so much that you will get sick right before leaving that you actually start developing a sore throat for no apparent reason...

* Start worrying about snakes and other scary creatures. Do some research and you might find out that you are going to one of total of four Caribbean islands with poisonous snakes.

* And the most important thing to worry about is of course that you have been looking forward to the vacation for so long that it will never live up to your expectations....

Feel free to offer hints for more stuff to worry about. I still have few hours left :) .

If you take private picture on your mobile phone the latest Opera Mini version might not be for you...

Explanation for my non Norwegian friends. Conradi is a Norwegian actor which lost his mobile phone with some private pictures on it. They were put online.

Women actresses that have their mouth open all the time or strut their lips in an idiotic way have been annoying me for a while. Yesterday, I went to see the lastest James Bond film. I must admit that I was very skeptical as the only reason I have gone to see James movies
in the past was to watch Pierce Brosnan's spectualar performance as James Bond (read as "to drool over").



It was a big shock realizing that the new James Bond, Daniel Craig was doing the typical strutting model lips. Silly model lips on a man?!?! He looked like Zoolander! Now, I loved the Zoolander movie but there he was making fun of the models... he wasn't trying to be the world's most charming movie character, James Bond.

What are you supposed to think when you get an e-mail containing the following message?