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26 hours to go …

August 13, 2015January 21, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Heading home ... Its been a long 5 out of 6 weeks of business travel this summer - but it is coming to a close very shortly. In 26 hours I get on my British Airways flight from Budapest, Hungary to London, Heathrow ... then Heathrow back to Philadelphia ... then…

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View from the Scandic Hotel, Holmenkollen, Oslo, Norway

View from Holmenkollen

August 4, 2015January 20, 2020 by John P. Hoke

John P. Hoke

Panoramic View from Holmenkollen Last night my wife and I had dinner with a business colleague at the Scandic Hotel at Holmenkollen just outside of Oslo, Norway under the Skiforeningen (Ski Jump Museum). Holmenkollen is a neighborhood in the Vestre Aker borough of Oslo, Norway. In addition to being a residential area, the area has been…

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Viking Wooden Animal Carving

August 2, 2015January 20, 2020 by John P. Hoke

John P. Hoke

Viking Wooden Animal Carving While on my trip to Oslo, we had some down time and took a ferry over to Bygdøy and spent a few hours at the Viking Ship Museum. When you stop and think, the first permanent English settlement in North America was Jamestown, Virgina in 1607 and…

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Housekeeping & Blog Updates

August 2, 2015August 22, 2015 by John P. Hoke

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Blog updates across the world It is Sunday morning here in Oslo, Norway on the second leg of my European business trips ... this one is Oslo, Barcelona and Budapest. I got a few decent images so far and was about to upload one (will do so shortly...) and I…

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Summer Business Travel

May 14, 2015January 20, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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So it appears that I will be heading back to Europe this summer for work ... currently on the itinerary: London area, Paris, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Budapest, Oslo - that's for starters ... While I am not loving the idea of traveling over the summer - it takes time away from…

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