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.
Went for a walk along St Clair and St Kilda beaches in Dunedin. The weather was spectacularly good with lots of sun.
The Rikugi-en gardens is a beautiful part of Tokyo city and well worth visiting if you are in the area.
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.
I bumped into Chris Laing whilst wandering around Arrowtown on new years eve
Julebord is a traditional Norwegian Christmas dinner, consisting of meat, with some meat on the side and some meat garnishings.
I’m best buds with Kate Moss 🙂
Some photos I forgot to post of Edinburgh castle last year …
I forgot to publish this blog post back in May 2012! I took these photos at the Viking Museum in Oslo.
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 🙂
And people wonder why I shave my head these days … Thanks to Melissa for providing the hair and taking the photo.
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 day at Toko Mouth. Dad and I headed to the river where I attempted swimming for the first time since 2006.
The from my new office window in Nydalen, Oslo.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
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 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.
I took the following panorama on my phone whilst skating on Kringlevann, not far from outskirts of Oslo.
Morten and I headed to Langvann for some ice skating. Beautiful weather and a really long and smooth sheet of ice to skate on.
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.
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 […]
More Norwegian language practice. This time in the form of a comic strip … Click the image to see a higher resolution version. Story based on real life events. Resemblance to peoples living or dead is most like intentional.
These were nigh on impossible to copies of.
Marte and Ingvild and I admired the beautiful autumn colours along Akeselva
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
The bold sections were originally empty and filled in by me. Same drill as normal. If you see any problems, lemme know please 🙂 FIRST SENTENCE Jeg skal reise til Berge på fredag. Broren min, Karl, bor og studerer der. Jeg gleder meg til å treffe Karl igjen. Han er bare to år eldre enn […]
The bold sections were originally empty and filled in by me. Same drill as normal. If you see any problems, lemme know please 🙂 First sentence Jeg har en ganske stor familie i hjemlandet mitt. Familien min liker å reise, og to av brødrene mine har allerede besøkt meg her i Norge. Brødrene mine bodde […]
I need to write a story about “families” for my Norwegian class homework. To keep things interesting, the following are loosely based on real life people. You KNOW who you are! Det var en familien i Neu Seeland. De hadde tre medlemmer, mor, far og datter. Farens navn er Siemen og Morens navn er Bao […]
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 🙂
I went to the Alcantarilha township with Nadia’s family. Whilst there we saw a giant pineapple!
I’m just logging this here for future reference and so I can get people to proof read it before sending … Hei Kate! Jeg har problemer 🙁 Jeg kan ikke gjore det lekser. Jeg provde det, men jeg ikke forstår alle det og trenger hjelp å ferdig. Jeg hadde hjelp fra venner via blogg for […]
More Norwegian homework. Same drill as normal, lemme know if you see errors 🙂 Fortell om dem. Susanna: Jeg gleder meg til sommeren. Da får jeg besøk av kjæresten min. Susanna gleder seg til sommeren. Da får hun besøk av kjæresten sin. Liv og Ole: Vi gleder oss til å treffe familien vår Liv og Ole gleder seg […]
More Norwegian homework. Lemme know if you see anything bad. You know the drill, bold bits are the ones I wrote, un-bolded bits are from my textbook 🙂 Hva sier de? Alexander skal besøke familien sin i jula. Han glader seg til jul. Alexander: “Jeg skal besøke familien min i jula” Alexander: “Jeg gleder meg […]
More Norwegian class homework. Lemme know if there are errors please 🙂 Words to choose from: glede, feire, smake, ha, savne, synge, treffe, spise. I jula har jeg lang ferie. Jeg savner familien min i jula, men i år skal jeg heldigvis feire jul sammen med tanta og onkelen min i Sverige. Der treffer jeg også broren min. Vi skal snakke sammen og synge gamle, tradisjonelle julesanger. Etterpå skal vi […]
Some more practice sentences for my Norwegian homework. Lemme know if you see any errors please 🙂 The workbook I’m working from has the sentences, minus the bits in bold which I need to fill in. di, din, ditt, dine Kommer foreldrene dine på besøk i jula? Hvor gammel er mora di nå? Er faren din frisk? Juletreet ditt […]
Nadia and I visited Albufeira, a small seaside tourist town in Portugal. Nice views. Nice beach. Nice weather. Nice company. All around nice place 🙂
Here is a document with all of the stuff I’m trying to learn about the Norwegian language. Norwegian grammar document (PDF version)
Meet Marble, the plucky little chameleon I met whilst visiting Nadia near Alcantarilha Portugal.
Dinner with Erik and Yelitza after going to the gym.
Nadia and I visited Albufeira, a small seaside tourist town in Portugal. Nice views. Nice beach. Nice weather. Nice company.
This is a work in progress … due by Tuesday evening. Saturday Jeg kjøpt for klær på lørdag. Jeg kjøpt en rosa trøyen og en svart trøyen. Jeg hate rosa klær, men jeg nødvendig* rosa klær for rosa fest med rosa tema. Jeg kunne ha cowboy klær men jeg vet ikke hvor jeg kunne ha […]
14 setninger med disse adverbene … opp, hjemme, ned, inne, ut, oppe, inn, hit, hjem, dit, her, inne, der, ute. I’m not sure how to use “inne” in a sentence at this stage. Jeg skal går opp gate til hjem Vi sitter ned parken Jeg skal ut i morgen Kom hit! Jeg sitter på stol […]
I assumed that going to the toilet in public was relegated to third world countries, but it seems it is totally acceptable in Norway!