NoPlanSummer™

2026-06-26

This summer I’m planning a NoPlanSummer™. I love going into a day with no plans to see where I end up. It’s usually those days that are filled with wonder, exploration, and ironically those kinds of days where I end up doing the most. All unplanned. I think it’s because I constantly get to choose what I’ll do next, not having to worry about where I have to go next. It is also on those days that I feel I get to be my happiest, most creative self.

Yesterday was my first day of NoPlanSummer. A friend came over, we had coffee, radlers, and ice cream on the balcony, went swimming in the Oslofjord, caught up with two friends (and soon to be colleagues), sat in the sun having beers for hours then walked home happy and tipsy.

I have been challenged of course. Some have suggested that no plans can lead to the summer fizzling out, or passing without major events, to which I say that boredom is the catalyst of creativity. This blog is a project I’ve been wanting to do for ages. To have not just the time to write, but the quiet needed for ideas to emerge is part of NoPlanSummer. Just watch me: I’m writing right now!

And I have quite a bit of time for all this unplanned wonder. I quit my job this spring, and I am starting a new one in August, which gives me more than five weeks of vacation, a rare peace of mind, and no obligation. Of course, when letting people know that I have all this time off, I’m asked what I have planned, and if we shouldn’t do this, go there, book that, or spend a week or two there. In response I have violently, and with great anger and fury, resisted any attempts my beautiful friends have had at making plans, with the bet that I’ll end up spending more time with them, have more adventures, more travels, more late nights with wine and endless chatter and skinny-dipping in the morning while watching the sun rise over Oslo.

NoPlanSummer is all about having the time to do what I want to do at any given moment. I want the freedom to wake up one morning and find out I want to go to the beach, and wake up the next morning to find I want to take a train to Berlin. I can’t take a train to Berlin today, if I have to be somewhere else. So feel free to join me on my NoPlanSummer, you just can’t ask me to plan for it.

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