Norway: NATO Infrastructure Committee Visit

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June 1st 1985

Published: August 7th 2011

1 June 1985 Saturday. The committee members, the NATO International Staff, and their spouses met at the military side of Zaventum airport to catch a C-130 cargo plane to Gaardemoen Air Base just north of Oslo. There we refueled for another long flight to Tromso, high above the Arctic Circle in northern Norway. It is as far to fly from Oslo to the North Cape as it is from Oslo to Rome. Tromso i... Read Full Entry

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Bob Carlsen

Home and Away

I started blogging on Travelblog in 2009, entering trips beginning in 2007. My intention has always been to document my years of travel since my birth...how else was I to save all the slides my Dad took of my childhood! Most bloggers write about their trips away from home. Mine, and eventually Linda's, homes have usually been where people travel to. So the idea eventually percolated to name our blog "Home and Away." The blog is not intended to be an autobiography, although I spent my entire life traveling, with Linda joining me after college, it may appear to be that way. As this... full info

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Robin (UK) and his new friend

Robin and I played squash about twice a week while he was with the UK Delegation. Robin and Rhona have been life long friends.

Bob and friend

Bob at Hell, Norway

Committee members at a Norwegian castle

Norwegian farmstead

Fortress at Trondheim

Fortress in Trondheim

Committee on the Fortress hill

Bob in Trondheim

View of Trondheim from the Fortress hill

John and Ingrid (NIS) and Renata and Deiter (GE) on the bus tour of Trondheim

Wharf area of Trondheim

Wharf area of Tronsheim

Oslo City Hall where we caught a boat to the ships museums

Committee on the boat in the Oslo Fjord

Peace demonstrators welcome us in Oslo

Linda and Imma (NL) relaxing at the Oslo ship museums

Erling (NO), Bob (UK) and Mike (NIS) on boat to the ships museums

Committe at the Fram Museum

11th April 2021

Committee members on top of mountain across from Tromso

jan dahlberg
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Hang gliding Tromsø
Hello. look at your blog from Tromsø 1984 pictures from the mountain lift in Tromsø. fun to recognize yourself in the picture as a young hang glider pilot where I fly from the mountain lift in Tromsø. Then I was a young boy who lived in Tromsø, now I am 63 years old and flying hang glider further south in Norway. Thanks for the blog and photos way back in time.

12th April 2021

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Bob Carlsen

Wow!!
What an amazing coincidence that you were in the picture I took in 1984!

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