Ryan Hellyer

Danish water

Sea ice

There are beautiful lakes all over the city.

The magnificent København mermaid. This apparently won a prize as one of the most overrated tourist venues in Europe.

Kastellet

Kastellet is a picturesque, albeit strange looking “star fortress” in København, Denmark.

København windmills

Denmark has a lot of windmills. They look quite spectacular around København and you can get a good view of them from the train heading from Malmø in Sweden.

First Oslo cycling trip of 2013

With the first weekend of good weather, I took to the hills around Oslo on my mountain bike. This time I went with Ingvild, Live, Kaspars, Baiba and Marco. It was nice to have travelling companions for once 🙂 We started from Frognersetteren and had an easy trip downhill most of the way. We did have a brief uphill excursion through some seriously rough stuff. I don’t think I’m very good at taking it easy and spent most of my time falling off my bike or attempting, and usually failing, to ride through stupidly deep mud. Lots of fun though and we all made it back in one piece 🙂

Some people carried their bikes around the mud. Kaspars found a route which didn’t require going through the mud. I on the other hand am stubborn and decided to go through the mud. Sometimes it worked, some it didn’t 😛 I was a tad muddy by the end of the trip!

A lake which I don’t know the name of. If you know what this is called, please let me know in the comments 🙂

Marco

Baiba and Kaspars chilling out beside Bogstadsvannet

View across Bogstadsvannet

Me posing beside Bogstadsvannet

This is a demonstration of why NOT to ride your bike through mud!

T-shirt weather, but there was still snow on the hills.

Rundetårn

I visited Rundetårn in København, Denmark. It is a 7th-century tower which was built as an astronomical observatory.

17. mai

The 17th of May is the biggest public holiday of the year in Norway. All the Norwegian go crazy! They also dress up in funky traditional costumes. The girls wear striking little outfits called “bunad”. I headed into town to meet up with Marte and Ingvild, plus Baiba and my work colleagues Kaspars, Ron and Marco. A little rain shower dampened things a little bit, but the streets were still filled with partying Norwegians 🙂