Work in the northern part of Norway
Recently I've been travelling a bit in Norway. A couple of weeks ago I travelled far north to the northern part of Norway. First I went to Finnmark (to the core areas of Sápmi - the land of the Sami). After that I spent a couple of days in Oslo working. Then I travelled north again to Troms, to my home town Finnsnes to visit my grandparents. I then travelled to Oslo, stayed over night and went for one more trip north. This time only for a day-trip, to Nordland and the third largest city in the northern part of Norway, Mo i Rana. Why all this travelling? It's for a research project (an evaluation) that I completing for my job. Why not travel between the places (and not back and forth to Oslo)? Well, the distances are to great to travel by car - and it's way cheaper flying back and forth to Oslo. After returning from Mo i Rana, I stayed overnight, but the next day I headed home to Copenhagen. Bliss.
Sun over Sápmi (the "vidda")-------- The Church in Kautokeino -----------Hotel floor i Karasjok (sami art?)
My grandma, Kristine, and my granddad, Arvid.
Leisure time in Oslo
You should imagine I'd be fed up travelling, but alas no. Jan and I had some unused tickeds to Oslo, and (un-)fortunatly we happened to book them the weekend after I got back from my escapades to the north. Talk about stamina ... We travelled late on Friday and stayed over with Karen and Johannes. On Saturday we had a great brunch and headed off quite late. I had to drop by my work, and after that we went to an art exhibition. It was called "Ghost in the Machine", but must say that I didn't care much for it. The most interesting piece was one with Michael Jackson (urk). In the evening we went to an Italian restaurant, and Jan ate wild boar for the first time. I had a pizza, it tasted nice, but compared to Jan's meal it was boring.
On Sunday we ate brunch again, fulfilling as ever, but didn't go to church. We headed of to Maria and Martin, and Jan got to see their little son William for the first time. Martins mom, Liv, was also there. I forgot to take a picture for the blog, but sometimes I'm not present. But we had a great time, and Martin served us a curry with sweet potatoes. Something new every day you might say ... In the evening we caught our flight back home, and we were tired. Looking worn, you might say.
Karen and Johannes -----------------Jan at Gardermoen airport
(an unwillingly picture ...)
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That's A LOT of traveling and flying back & forth! That's how I felt last fall and how I'll feel again this month with grad school visits. Glad you got to do some fun visits too though to round it all up.
Hooray for posts in English! I check in on your blog every now and then just to see if maybe I'll understand something, note that it's still in Danish, and then leave feeling disappointed and small-brained. Thanks, John-Arne, for tossing us poor one-language-only speakers a bone! :) In all your travels, remember to come to California at some point so that I can meet you and see that sweet fella of yours, Jan, again.
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