Hvem er Morten?

Sett på "Chilli con Bar" sitt jentetoalett... Hvem er denne Morten? Hvorfor liker han ikke teppe i taket? Har jeg-personen teppe i taket sitt hjemme? Var det ikke tungt å legge det? Eller kanskje han betalte et profesjonelt takteppeleggingsfirma for det? Spørsmålene er mange, og kanskje gir nettopp dette svar på hvorfor jenter bruker så lang tid på toalettet?!

Saknad

Eg saknar.
Det er så mykje og så mangt eg saknar.
Folk og fe og svunne tider.
Nokre gongar kunne eg ønskje tida stod stille.
Men korleis ville det då vere mogleg,
å tenkje seg tilbake til det som ein gong var?

Revyskriving

Eg og David skreiv revy. Då hadde vi det morosamt. David er ein framifrå kar. På det øverste biletet har eg mista hovudet. Oops.

Hobbiton

As I wrote earlier, a lot can be discovered when you open your eyes to familiar surroundings. Today I took a walk in the deep forests of my hometown Stjørdal, when I discovered these two hobbits! They were on a quest to find some sort of ring, and currently they were searching close to my old high school, Stokkan Ungdomsskole.

I will most certainly check the area for more exciting creatures later on!

Artsy fartsy

Håkon Bleken

Today I went to watch some art in Trondheim.
Place: Gråmølna, a part of Trondheim Art museum
Paintings by: Håkon Bleken and Inger Sitter
These artists are permanent, as they gave a lot of their paintings as a gift to save Gråmølna from being torn down or used for something else than an art museum. The exhibitions are temporary and so the paintings are changed.. I don't know how often..

Inger Sitter - Komposisjon i rødt

I liked it a lot, and even got a private guided tour. Afterwards I had lunch at Solsiden, Trondheim's Aker Brygge (if you're familiar with Oslo;).

In addition to these two artists from Trondheim, I discovered Åse Juul, who started the Modern Art Gallery in Trondheim.

Conclusion: A nice day discovering new places and things to do in Trondheim. A good tip for everyone - Try to see new things in familiar places.

Go west

I've just been to the city Ålesund, in the northern part of the west of Norway :D Haha. Ålesund has about 40 000 inhabitants, a football team (or maybe several?), and a lot of houses made in Jugendstil/Art Nouveau (they rebuilt the whole city in this style after a big fire in 1904).

View from Fjellstua.

I went by bus from Trondheim (check out the bus tables here). It took me about 7 hours, which is not a lot when you have such gorgeous nature to observe outside the windows, ferryboats to walk around and fellow bus passengers who can be a lot of fun to observe (like a business man picking his nose and eating the contents believing that nobody saw it...).

Pig at the animal club. Oink Oink.

In Ålesund there are different things to do. For example you can go to Sunnmøre Museum and have a look at old houses that didn't burn down, or to the animal club close by where you can see guinea pigs and just pigs (amongst others). You can go to Fjellstua for a good view (and an adrenalin kick from the road going up there!), Pluto for hangover-food, the city centre for shopping and watching the narrowest house you've ever seen.

Narrow house? Or are my arms very long?

Wanna know more about what's going on i Ålesund? Check it out here.

You know you're not in Iceland...

You know you're not in Iceland anymore when...

• you have to pay for your second cup of coffee...
• you can't wear what you want without people looking...
• you're not seeing more or less famous (Icelandic) people on every coffe house or street corner
• nightlife ends at 3 am
• restaurants don't have vegetarian options on their menu
  

More suggestions?