Hodleur.com – starting with a trip and now random

My first memory of Johan Forssell

2025-07-132025-07-13Uncategorized

A bit of Sweden-specific news, but maybe interesting anyway :) The Nazis never got 50% of the vote in Germany. They cooperated with the Conservative party. And wherever you are in the world, you need

My thoughts on Gaza

2024-05-202024-05-20Uncategorized

History has always been created by violence. Humans are an aggressive mammal, fighting for their territory, just like elephants or hippos. Below might be the guy who might have once conquered the territory that you

History of Sweden according to me

2023-06-062024-05-20Uncategorized

and Karin Bojs and Peter Englund whose books I've read, and Wikipedia and ChatGPT :) We haven't found anything that came to Sweden before the ice left us. So as far as we know, Sweden

From Cyprus to Leiden

2022-05-022022-05-02Uncategorized

So, that was my blog, written in 2007. I wrote it later and later, so when I wrote about Cyprus I was already in the Netherlands, and started working, so I just gave up. So

Cyprus Fri April 27

2022-04-272022-03-18Uncategorized

Woke up, the sun was shining and we were still not in Cyprus. Excellent, I am getting a whole night's sleep on this ferry I thought and fell asleep again. We arrived at 8 something

Karaman – Tasucu Thu April 26

2022-04-262022-03-18Uncategorized

Woke up and took a tour of the old hotel and found a shower. Haha, those 6 euro weren't needed after all! However, there was no light in the room, the water was cold and

Shaken to Karaman Wed April 25

2022-04-252022-03-18Uncategorized

Woke up, had a shower, wrote a note to my generous hosts, took my stuff and went to the bus station. I looked at the hundreds of erected buildings in the valley below me, thinking

Japan Day Tue April 24

2022-04-242022-03-18Uncategorized

Yesterday I saw a poster advertising a "Japan Day" on the METU campus. Among other things there was information for Turkish students who were interested in studying in Japan. I felt this was an opportunity

Last day of METUcon Mon April 23

2022-04-232022-03-18Uncategorized

I woke up in the guestroom. I took a look in the master bedroom and there was my longhaired friend and his girlfriend. She opened one eye and said "good morning" and then they slowly

Second day of METUcon Sun April 22

2022-04-222022-03-18Uncategorized

Woke up after my 12 hour "rest" and had an ice cream for breakfast and then we took a taxi to the convention since they were late for a game session they had signed up