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Hurtigruten or Hurtigruta (English: Coastal Express) is a Norwegian passenger and freight line with daily sailings along Norway's spectacular western and northern coast. Ships sail almost the entire length of the country, completing the roundtrip journey in 11 days. The trip has been described as the "World's Most Beautiful Sea Voyage." Highlights include the Hanseatic League city of Bergen, the Geiranger fjord (summer only), and the Lofoten Islands.   Hurtigruten traces its ...

Travelling by car signs helps you to find the right way, the right place, a hotel, the beach, a resturant and so on.   The signs also tells you to look up for forexample children, animals, and bumps.  It is often nice to have this signs. Signs can be seen in resurants, shops, on beaches, in parking spots and....... You can see signs allower, and mostly the signs helps you. But some time signs can confuse you.  What do they really mean? Do they mean something, w...

will edit later, these pics you see are of the fortress that overlooks the fjord of oslo and the waterfront area next to the fortress. hoping to say more tomorrow.

It was a beautiful spring day when I walked around Oslo one last time before I left. The day was blessed with enough sunshine to keep me a bit warm because the air was still a bit cold that day. As I can remember, I started from the central station and walked through Karljohan. Stopped by at the Parliament and then at the National Theather. Norway's National Day was coming up (happens on May 17th) so the city was filled with Norwegian flags and I actually didn't realize it at that time...

        Christmas in Trondheim   Christmas is soon here, and in Trondheim we hope to have the magic snow for the holiday.  Trondheim is dressed for Christmas, the Christmas tree on the Main Square was lightened 1st of December. The Christmas tree, is decorated with candles, apples, red harts, cornets, straw ornaments.   The streets are beautiful decorated with trees and garlands.    The tradition of the Christmas tree is believed to...

I'm in Oslo now, if you're just wondering where on earth I am. Don´t care? Fine. I just read a message from someone asking me if I'm already in outerspace. Seriously dude, wtf? Am I that cool now? I admit it was sad leaving Ireland, I had so much fun and my host Nina was really nice, kind-hearted, helpful, fun, and really kind-hearted (well, I know she'll read this....).  Thanks for everything and I really feel bad because the only good thing that I did back to you was to scrub of...

The weather forecast was showed sun with only a few clouds and I just had to go to Mount Hananipa. Mount Hananipa is sitated 714meters above the Sørfjord , which isnt a spectacular fjord, but the views are nonetheless stunning. You can drive upto 350meters and have to walk from there. To the place with the best view its around 30mins walk, but if you want to do the tour of all the adjacent mountains it will take around 6hours, but its surely worth it as some of the views are stunning. Just l...

So, what is there to do in an arctic winter Sunday? For a common local guy the answer probably would be: try to rest a while after a working week or a drinking/partying Saturday’s night! But not for a tough guy from the south, like me :-D Got to get up early for two reasons: 1 – to get breakfast before it ends; 2 – because I booked the dog-sledding for 10am… that’s the best way to maximize your time on a tour, always book something for the early morning ;-) Being at bu...

  Before going to Oslo I received a message from Gudny asking me if I had time to meet her.   It thought it was a great idea to meet her and was looking forward to meet the one that had made the nice Oslo blog. We changed cell phone nr and I promised to message her when I arrived Oslo to set up a time to meet her. I had a tight schedule so we met in the hotel lobby where I was staying  and went just around the corner from the hotel and sat outside in the sunshine. Te...

A bunch of photos around my city..This is under construction so more to come;)

  Celebrating the Norwegian Constitution Day is for me a very nice tradition. Although I have to go out of bed at 0545 am I`m looking forward to the day.  I`ll be dressed in my uniform, marching and playing my saxophone most of the day.      In the evening I`ll change to my bunad and celebrate with my friends.  We usually meet over a good dinner, starting with Champagne following up with beer or wine.   Hopefully the sun will bee shining fro...

The Vigeland Park   Our trip today started at the Vigeland Park in Oslo. Located at Majorstua. (Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943)was born in Mandal in southern Norway, the son of a master carpenter and descendant of a long line of farmers. He was brought up in a strictly religious environment and his father was subject to periods of religious brooding. These factors left deep marks in Vigeland's character) (THE VIGELAND PARK covers an area of 80 acres. The 212 sculptures are all modelled in...

      Spring is in the air.       The sun is shining and the snow is melting.      The day is getting warmer and longer.  The dark days are over for this time.  The sun rise earlier and set later.      Today I have had a fantastic day by the sea (Korsvika) enjoing  coffe from my thermos and a good book.      Oh soon we will have the midnight sun here.  Ok not before the ...

        The weather is nice in Trondheim, sun is shining, sky is blue and the temperature is 22 degree Celsius.     I love my garden and today I have enjoyed working in it.            

I couldn't sleep, so I thought I might as well go out and shoot some pics... all these pics are shot at 3 am... this is what I love about summer (among a lot of other things).. the nights are almost as light as the days... :o)