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.
I went cycling around Ørfiske north of Oslo, Norway with my friend Marte.
Anita at Torshovparken. We had a yummy barbecue courtesy of Trygve.
I need to write a dialog in Norwegian for the following cartoon. I want something witty and easy for me to translate into Norwegian. Any suggestions? Merkelig han Awesome! Hun er ikke her. Hun har ikke så meg Okay … fem minutter og hun ferdig arbeid Oh. Hun er der Jeg skal gjemme meg i […]
More photos from my cycling trips 🙂 This time it’s Maridalsvannet from above.
This is my assignment for my Norwegian language class. Jeg må skriver setninger for norskkurss. Vi har norskurss med kjempeflott lærer Kate. Jeg snakker bare litt norsk. Jeg prøvde lære norsk rask, men feil meg 🙁 Hvis ser du problemer, informer meg i kommentar. Takk! Vi lærer grammatikk og staving i norskurss. Jeg lært litt […]
Dang! So I actually made use of this Hello World post for once. This blog is where I intend to file all the incoherent random shit that would bore the daylights out of my regular blog readers. If you want to be entertained, head on hover to my personal blog or even my geek blog […]
I went to Trollvann, a beautiful little lake in the hills above Oslo. The place was swarming with families out enjoying the beautiful Norwegian summer.
The lovely Ingvild and Marte invited me to stay at their awesome little cottage in the woods. It overlooks a beautiful little lake called Movatn. The weather gods were angry that evening, but we were nice and cosy and downed some yummy seafood chowder followed by a healthy dose of ice cream and chocolate sauce […]
Whilst cycling on the weekend I stumbled across a well known Norwegian past-time … ski jumping. These crazy Norwegian nutcases launch themselves off stupidly steep ramps whilst on skis. Apparently doing it in the winter is not enough, and so some of the craziest ones resort to doing it on an even crazier plastic hill […]
Another day, another cycling trip. This time I headed north east to Kringlevann on advice from my friends Marte and Ingvild. It turns out they have great advice, as after a pleasant trip uphill I was greeted by a beautiful little lake nestled in the woods above Oslo city.
Some of my friends in New Zealand seemed fascinated that it could still be light outside in Oslo during the wee hours of the morning, so I took this photo at 1:15am during the middle of July to demonstrate how bright it gets.
It seems people are fascinated about where I end up on my weekends, so here are some snaps from a couple of weeks ago. I ended up somewhat lost during a cycling trip as I forgot my phone so had no Google maps, I had an awful map which barely showed any detail and I […]
It seems that when you go walking in a torrential downpour, you should not use Google Maps extensively. I tried that recently and promptly destroyed my trusty Huawei IDEOS X5 phone. Out with the old and in with the new though! I now have a Samsung Galaxy S3 and decided to do a quick photo […]
Continuing my apparent obsession with photos of cemeteries, here are some snaps I took at/near a picturesque cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. I got horridly lost whilst attempting to find Princes St and somehow ended up going totally the wrong direction, up a hill and figuring I may as well make the most of it and […]
Some photos of the Edinburgh Castle I took recently during a trip to WordCamp Edinburgh in Scotland.
In case anyone wasn’t already aware, I’m somewhat obsessed with a piece of software called “WordPress”. My occupation now revolves around WordPress and I voluntarily let it suck up an inordinate amount of my time. I attended a conference called “WordCamp Edinburgh”, which is by far the biggest WordPress conference I’ve ever attended. I met […]
I made two very awesome new friends whilst in Edinburgh recently, Zozela and Magdalini from Greece. Here are some photos from our travels about Edinburgh including to the Edinburgh Castle.
And … more trips from my cycling trip to Harestua, this time the lakes are Mantjernet and Nedre Blanksjø.
Some more photos from my recent cycling trip to Harestua. This time the lake is Bjørnsjøen.
Some photos of Skjærsjøen I took during a cycling trip to Harestua recently.
Here’s a photo I took of Svartkulp, a small lake I visited by bike, not far from the Oslo city center.
Some photos snapped from the plane, en route to Tromsø with Harriet.
More photos from my trip to Ingierstrand with Ingvild and co.
Oslo has some stunningly good weather sometimes. Beautiful blue skies during the middle of winter.
My lovely friend Ingvild invited me to Ingierstrand just outside of Oslo to hang out with her and her friends for the weekend. We had a terrific time and witnessed a spectacular sunset across the fiord just after dinner.
Photos of Øyungen lake during my recent cycling trip.
I went on a cycling trip to Øyungen, a small lake near Oslo. Round trip was about 37 km, which considering my total lack of fitness and excessive flab, was no mean feat! Here’s some photos en-route to the lake, photos of the lake itself coming up soon 🙂
I always told you could buy this stuff all over the world, but I assumed that meant that a few boutique wine stores dotted around the globe would stock the occasional bottle. But I walked into the local Vinmonopolet (Norwegian for “Wine Monopoly”) and smack bang in the middle of one of the shelves was […]
Some long exposure (~5 s) photos of Tromsø city.
Harriet checking out the Arctic ocean temperature. Apparently it was a bit chilly.
The Norwegians appear to get off on statues. Not sure what’s up with that …
I went for a walk from my apartment today. I went on a 15 km tour to the edge of the city and back. I was hoping to find somewhere to skate on a lake called Maridalsvannet, but the whole place is fenced off due to it being the primary water supply for the city.
I visited Frognerparken, a popular park in Oslo which features a bunch of strange looking statues.
My lovely friend Kerry came to visit me in Oslo 🙂 We went to the local ski jump, but were met with a gloriously wonderful array of fog, fog and a little more fog.
Harriet and I, ready to embark on our great arctic adventure into the untouched wilderness of the Tromsø city center.
Dinner with Harriet and Anita. We nommed down a ridiculous amount of pizza at which point it suddenly dawned on me that I now consider a $100 bottle of wine to be cheap!
Harriet and I visited the worlds most northern brewery, Mack brewery.
The weather turned to poo in Tromsø, so Harriet and I headed to the local aquarium to entertain ourselves for the afternoon.
So, Harriet and I went to Tromsø during the winter. Tromsø is way up in the arctic circle. It apparently snows quite a lot in the arctic circle, who would’ve thought!
Continuing my habit of taking photos of cemeteries covered in snow …
Harriet Geoghegan posing in Tromsø.
I competed in the Sentrumsløpet today, a 10 km running race around the streets of Oslo. I am the fattest I have been in my life, I am the most out of shape I’ve ever been in my life, I am nursing an achilles heal injury and rather insanely decided that competing in this thing […]
We have a new member of our office. His name is Bob Skywalker.
Some photos taken in the early evening in Tromsø.
Some photos at dusk from my arctic adventure in Tromsø with Harriet.
Harriet Geoghegan and I travelled to the little city of Tromsø way up in the Arctic circle. I never thought I would travel that far north in the world, but it seems I was wrong!
So I moved to the other side of the planet, and one of the first shops I see is called “Kiwi”!!! So I walk in, expecting to see nothing but Kiwi paraphernalia, sheep, rugby crap, buzzy bees etc. and what do I find? … groceries. Groceries, groceries and a few more groceries. Why do they […]