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Walking 4 mountains

By oyvind – 31 May 2010 Active testNorwegianPosted in: Photos, Scenery

Yesterday the 7-mountain walk was due, or the 4-mountains for the ones who think 7 is suicide. I’ve never done it before so I’m very proud of finishing it. We had a great time, I walked with our little princess (8 yo) and I’m proud of her too. We started around 9am and finished about 6pm. 8000 people participated, 5000 for the 7 mountains and 3000 for the 4 – isn’t that incredible? It was a bit crowded on the mountains but it was fun.

My feet are hurting but it was worth it. Heres some of the photos I took on the walk:

Ulriken, our tallest top:

Panorama from Ulriken:

From Fløi mountain:

Rundemanen:

A proud walker:

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Mountain biking

By oyvind – 28 May 2010 Active testNorwegianPosted in: Photos, Scenery

Last Wednesday our young prince wanted to go for a bike ride – he knew an awesome route he wanted to try. I needed the exercise since I’m going the 4-mountain-tour this weekend. The others in the house are going the 7-mountain-tour but I’m not in shape for that yet. :)

After a long ride with though hills it was great to getting up there, awesome view and it was fun to see the old farm in such a good shape. People lived her till 1952 but now it is a museum. If the owner is there you can get a cup of coffee and some waffles. The place were in ruins not long ago but one guy built it up again.

Our route. (click here for Google Maps).

Stallane.

On our way up we met a few curious ones.

Through a cozy wood.

Nyances on the mountain.

Jordalsvannet. (lake)

A proud biker.

View from Stallane.

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Yet another dog attack

By oyvind – 26 May 2010 Active testNorwegianPosted in: Life

Millions of people gets bitten by dogs each year, it happen in Norway too. Today an 8 month old baby got attacked by a Rottweiler near me. I thought this dog was illegal. I’m not much into dog but its sad to read about these attacks. I have a feeling its all about how the dog has been raised, or am I wrong?

I noticed in some statistics that 5 millions in USA gets bitten by dog each year, but aren’t there about 50-60 million dogs in US? I’m not sure how many dogs there are in Norway.

The article is updated now. A mother were carrying the baby out of a mall and the dog jumped up and bit the baby’s leg…

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Our local team scored two, but in wrong goal

By oyvind – 24 May 2010 Active testNorwegianPosted in: humor

Our local team Brann kicked their coach the other day and today was the first match without him. They scored two goals! But in wrong goal. But who minds that, its the finish that counts isn’t it? What goal they put the ball in doesn’t matter much.

Now people are discussing whether they will keep their league or not this year, I think they will make it – they have proven they can score.

Oh well, football isn’t everything, now I want to see the two last episodes of Lost so I can be finished with it and move on in life.

Heres from the match:

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Our terrace before and after

By oyvind – 23 May 2010 Active testNorwegianPosted in: Life

A paint job was long overdue, we figured out this was our last chance to paint it else it would have to be removed and replaced next season. This is how it looked before we put the stain on:

We bought 4 litres of stain and a roller, but first I washed and scrubbed it with something I don’t think is very environmental friendly..

Heres how it turned out:

And then my better half bought new furniture, doesn’t it look great?

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Princess Leia on the Hardangerjøkul in Norway

By oyvind – 21 May 2010 Active testNorwegianPosted in: Life

Heres Carrie Fisher on an Aktiv 600 snow scooter on the Hardangerjøkul in Norway, its while filming Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back. I thought it was an awesome photo.

Check out more photos here or the May edition of Maxim.

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Rich guy parked on handicap-parking

By oyvind – 21 May 2010 Active testNorwegianPosted in: Journalism

Foto: SCANPIX/PRIVAT

Stordalen, a well known man in Norway parked on a handicap parking and gets a top story on VG today. Hes embarrassed and have no excuse he says. But why can newspapers do this? I see horrible parkings every day but they are not mentioned in the newspaper. Why is it allowed to embarrass celebrities and not “normal” people?

I dislike people who illegally park on handicap-places but it irritates me that only celebrities are made fun of in the media. Why not do it to everybody?

I find it a bit amusing though that he was on his way to the optician but didn’t see the sign…

Link to article (in Norwegian): VG

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Photohunting

By oyvind – 21 May 2010 Active testNorwegianPosted in: Photos

A friend of mine and I took a walk yesterday in the nice weather, I took a few shots I wanted to share.

Store Lungårdsvann
Fjell

Knust glass
tog



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A trip to Geitanuken

By oyvind – 20 May 2010 Active testNorwegianPosted in: Photos, Scenery

The 7-mountain-march is getting closer and we have to get in proper shape so we decided to take a small trip to Geitanuken last Tuesday. The weather was awesome and it smelled summer up there! Hers a few shots I took:

The light were a bit difficult on our way down, but I liked how this one turned out:

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Celebrating May 16th and 17th

By oyvind – 18 May 2010 Active testNorwegianPosted in: Life, Photos

A traditional May 16 and 17th celebration this year. First the local match and celebration in the city center the 17th.

Our view at the match:

Huseklepp takes a corner:

Bergen center.

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Decades with ash-trouble

By oyvind – 16 May 2010 Active testNorwegianPosted in: Life

Thor Thordarson, a vulcano researcher prepares us for decades of ash-trouble. Its incredible to see how dependent we’ve become of the air-traffic. What will happen the day Katla awakens and we can’t use airplanes for weeks, or months?

I follow vedur.is every day and jumps in my chair each time I see red dots around Katla, I’m thinking “Now its happening” but then the dots vanish. But one day…

In Norway we have an old train-system – people want the fastest route so people choose air and not train – will this change?

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Norway in a nutshell

By oyvind – 11 May 2010 Active testNorwegianPosted in: Weird world


Foto: Espen Braata, VG

Since May 1st this year emergency cars in Norway need a taxi permit. The taxi-organizations demanded this because “hey – they are driving people around and charge them”. Isn’t it incredible? This is Norway in a nutshell – we laugh at other countries’ bureaucracy but we’re not better. The doctors visiting people have complained and want to stay clear of this rule, the application will be either accepted or denied this week.

If its not accepted I am worried how Norway will turn out to live in the next years.. Will the fire department and police need a taxi permit as well in the future?

I also read that every 5th student in 9th grade here in Bergen cannot read! And that is ethnic Norwegians, I wonder how the total is. Isn’t Norway great!?

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Stupid media and airport security

By oyvind – 10 May 2010 Active testNorwegianPosted in: humor

Sometimes people are misjudged by both media and airport security, this is a good example.

Poor Faiz Mohammad were stopped by airport security because of this find and the media blows it up big:

The guy were put in jail because of suspicious shoes and called it bomb detonator.

Check out this product, see the similarity?

Link to the product.

Link to the article.

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Amazing Electone skills

By oyvind – 10 May 2010 Active testNorwegianPosted in: Internet

Sometimes it occur to me how much fun stuff Internet has to offer that I don’t know about, until an e-mail about it or a small twitter-message pops up. Check this out:

You can also follow maru’s work here: Electone TV.

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The VIP section

By oyvind – 5 May 2010 Active testNorwegianPosted in: humor

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