When I quit drinking Coke, this happens …
Now I need to drink another bottle because I’m too lazy to clean my water bottle 🙂
Climbing trees
Bret was in the process of building a kick butt tree house for the kids. I hadn’t climbed a tree in a very long time.
Sushi on Mt Cargill
Sushi and I headed to the top of Mt Cargill in Dunedin to see the sunset. We had a spectacular view out over the city.
Caffeine Free Coke
Hmmm, so apparently you can get the full sugar version too …
Ross Creek Reservoir
I went to check out the Ross Creek Reservoir which I had heard was drained due to earthquake damage. Thankfully the lake is still there.
Sophienkirche
I noticed a ridiculously large number of bullet holes. This church beside it was the place where Martin Luther King Jr had famously presented a sermon.
Hamster’s gone wild
Hamster’s, the choice of a new generation …
Sushi
Some photos of my old friend Sushi and myself at St Clair beach in Dunedin. We took these whilst I was back for a holiday.
Norwegian language email
This is an email to my Norwegian language teacher Kate. If you spot any errors, please lemme know 🙂 Hallo! Jeg kjøpt for Stein på stein i går. Jeg følt veldig merkelig siste torsdag. Jeg hadde 30 mg codeine for host. Jeg skal ikke ta codeine på tirsdag! Corolina fortalte meg å ha løk te, […]
Walk along St Clair
Went for a walk along St Clair and St Kilda beaches in Dunedin. The weather was spectacularly good with lots of sun.
Rikugi-en gardens
The Rikugi-en gardens is a beautiful part of Tokyo city and well worth visiting if you are in the area.
Visiting Dunedin
I visited my home town of Dunedin for the first time in my life recently. Whenever I returned in the past it was because I was coming home.
Chris in Arrowtown
I bumped into Chris Laing whilst wandering around Arrowtown on new years eve
Metronet Julebord
Julebord is a traditional Norwegian Christmas dinner, consisting of meat, with some meat on the side and some meat garnishings.
Kate Moss
I’m best buds with Kate Moss 🙂
More of Edinburgh Castle
Some photos I forgot to post of Edinburgh castle last year …
Viking ships
I forgot to publish this blog post back in May 2012! I took these photos at the Viking Museum in Oslo.
Finnair linux
So apparently Finnair uses Redhat linux to power its entertainment system. This was both amusing in a nerdy kind of way and infuriating as heck when you want to get your quick fix of movie watching. Thankfully Marte had provided me with some movies to watch on my phone before leaving 🙂
Bad hair
And people wonder why I shave my head these days … Thanks to Melissa for providing the hair and taking the photo.
Lacrosse
This looks like an attempt to get as many things wrong in one paragraph as possible … It’s from the tag attached to an item of clothing.
Christmas at Toko Mouth
Christmas day at Toko Mouth. Dad and I headed to the river where I attempted swimming for the first time since 2006.
Swimming at Toko Mouth
View from my new office
The from my new office window in Nydalen, Oslo.
Store Gryta
Morten and I headed to Store Gryta to find some ice to skate on. Unfortunately it was a little thin, so we stopped for a short food break where I tried Julebrød med brun øst (Norwegian Christmas bread with brown cheese), a traditional Christmas time snack around these parts.
Skating on Setertjern
My new skating Morten kindly drove us to Setertjern for some ice skating. 50 mm of nice hard, smooth ice 🙂 There was a swiffle of snow on the top, but nothing major.
Frozen saft!
This is a lesson in why you should always pack hot water when travelling outdoors in Oslo 😉 This was a yummy bottle full of forest berry flavoured saft (Norwegian drink flavouring stuff, kinda like cordial) before leaving home; 60 minutes later and it became a saft slushy! The photo was taken on Kringlevann.
Skating on Sognsvann
After having a such a terrific time out ice skating the night before, I headed back to Sognsvann in the morning to try out the ice during the daylight. There was a little more snow and the surface had roughened up a little, but still an amazing days skating in the great outdoors. It is […]
Sognsvann evening skate
After being hospitalised with a head injury this evening (I thought it would be fun to walk into a cupboard door), Morten and I decided to go for an evening skate on Sognsvann on the outskirts of the city. We were greeted with beautiful smooth ice interspersed with the occasional snow dump. The local fire […]
More photos from skating on Kringlevann
More photos from my recent skating trip to Kringlevann. We had terrific weather this day, -6° C and very little clouds. A great change from the past month of dreary rainy crap.
Kringlevann skating panorama
I took the following panorama on my phone whilst skating on Kringlevann, not far from outskirts of Oslo.
Skating on Langvann
Morten and I headed to Langvann for some ice skating. Beautiful weather and a really long and smooth sheet of ice to skate on.
Frozen beer
People keep asking me how cold Oslo is. A picture supposedly paints a thousand words, so here is a photo I took outside a bar this morning. Presumably a patron left their beer sitting outside last night, and by this morning it was frozen solid.
Skating on Kringlevann at last
After multiple trips over the past few weeks to Kringlevann all resulted in failed attempts at skating, I was beginning to think my chances of skating in the great outdoors this season was fading fast. Fortunately we had a good freeze over the past few days and only a minor dusting of snow. After I […]
Bob Skywalker walking
Look, new keys :)
These were nigh on impossible to copies of.
Autumn colours with Marte and Ingvild
Marte and Ingvild and I admired the beautiful autumn colours along Akeselva
Ice leaf
Whilst walking along Akerselva, Marte saw two leaves that looked like they had frozen ice between them. She peeled the leaves off, and out came a beautiful frozen ice leaf.
Running to Kringlevann
One of my favourite hobbies in New Zealand was always finding ice to skate on come the winter months. By the time I arrived in Norway last winter all of the lakes were covered in snow, so this time around I’m trying to keep a close eye on the lakes and as soon as they’re […]
Eating out in Lisbon
After WordCamp Lisboa, we went out for dinner a restaurant overlooking the city. Unfortunately I had left my camera in Norway and my phone doesn’t do the view justice. Suffice to say, we had a very beautiful view out across Lisbon cityscape.
Lisbon via bus
Marko Heijnen and I went on a siteseeing tour of Lisbon via bus. Thankfully our bus had a cover to keep the sun off us, as didn’t bring any sunscreen.
My first snake ever!
I had never seen a snake before until visiting a pet shop in Alcantarilha with Nadia’s family. It’s not the most exciting way to see your first snake, but I figured it was worthy of a blog post/photo at least 🙂
Giant pineapple
I went to the Alcantarilha township with Nadia’s family. Whilst there we saw a giant pineapple!
Albufeira
Nadia and I visited Albufeira, a small seaside tourist town in Portugal. Nice views. Nice beach. Nice weather. Nice company. All around nice place 🙂
Marble the chameleon
Meet Marble, the plucky little chameleon I met whilst visiting Nadia near Alcantarilha Portugal.
Post workout dinner with Metronetters
Dinner with Erik and Yelitza after going to the gym.
WordCamp Lisboa
Nadia and I visited Albufeira, a small seaside tourist town in Portugal. Nice views. Nice beach. Nice weather. Nice company.
Public urination in Norway
I assumed that going to the toilet in public was relegated to third world countries, but it seems it is totally acceptable in Norway!
Beautiful weather in Oslo
Another beautiful day in Oslo. These crazy Norwegians keep declaring the weather here is crap and that this is the worst summer in a long time. I think they’re all crazy. The summer weather here is far warmer and sunnier than I am used to.
Ørfiske with Marte
I went cycling around Ørfiske north of Oslo, Norway with my friend Marte.
Picnic in Torshovparken
Anita at Torshovparken. We had a yummy barbecue courtesy of Trygve.