Blogs from Eastern Norway, Norway, Europe - page 5

Certains, comme Laurence sur FB diront que nous avons déjà vu tout cela… et c’est bien vrai… mais ma réponse fut immédiatement « quand on aime on ne compte pas » !!!! Et oui, un 5 juillet 2015, le jour de notre anniversaire de mariage nous avions trouvé bon nous trouver entre ces sculptures qui représentent tant d’Amour !!!! Avec plus d'un million de visiteurs par an, ce parc figure parmi les premières attractions de Norvège. Le parc Vigeland rassemble les oeuvres d'une vie de travail du scuplteur Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943) avec plus de 200 sculptures en bronze, granit et fer forgé. Vigeland a également imaginé et dessiné l'architecture du parc. « Sinnataggen » (L’enfant en colère), un petit garçon piétinant rageusement le sol, est l’une des figures les plus populaires du parc. Il est tant ... read more

Day 64, 28.05.19. Tuesday. Finally, I'm in the Finnforest! By one of the largest lakes in the area, Rysjøen. It was quite an effort to get here, sometimes not even as pleasant as I would like it to be. It started when I was about to take the train from Oslo after visiting my friend the philosopher. Had about 10 min to catch it after buying a go-pro from a nice fella that gave me a decent price for it. Bought the ticket and headed down to the platform, there was some commotion on the speaker that absolutely no one there understood, so I asked a lady-conductor about the train to Elverum, she said it was the next one after the current train had left, so I waited. The train left, but another came on the ... read more

Day 53, 17.05.19. Friday. Been a while since I wrote something, I've decided to try to write less days to limit the repeating thoughts and stuff that happens and write more each time instead. My friend didn't make it :( he made a mistake of some kind when it came to his thesis so he had to delay his presentation for a while longer. But he told me his best bet was the first week in June, so now we've agreed to meet up at Finnskogen(Finnforest). I was there a month by myself in 2011 before I went to Sweden to play poker at a casino in Gøteborg, just to check out how I was doing live instead of offline, after a couple weeks I found out I could actually make money on it if I ... read more

Day 45, 09.05.19. Thursday. As the weather forecast predicted it's raining a lot and should rain all day and tomorrow as well as in the morning at saturday. From monday I'll see some nice weather and it should start getting warmer again after the polar low-pressure system hit parts of western and moved towards eastern and southern Norway a couple weeks ago. It got down to 6 below again and the nights have been very frosty, daytime has been snowy, haily and rainy. Met a guy a couple days ago when I was walking to scout out a new place to camp out. Needed a new place not so close to the road and a more secluded one, just three days ago I was walking towards my camp and noticed there was a car standing still ... read more

Day 37, 01.05.19. Wednesday. Moved my camp a few kilometers north-east last friday, some people I'm not familiar with have seen my camp so it's wise to move within a week in case some of them decides to give my camp a visit while I'm away. I'm not hard to spot, running around with a bright blue wind-jacket and a funny hat that is made by the indigenous people of Peru. My guess is that I'm easily identified from a distance of a kilometer or maybe two. Thinking of moving camp today as well, need a sunnier place and there are some type of small black insects here that crawl everywhere, they look like a ladybeetle-larva only that they're metallic-black and much smaller. I've also found them on my late cat occationally, but never came around ... read more