German tourist lands big fish

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A German doctor on holiday in Norway caught the fish of his dreams this week -- a halibut weighing an astonishing 138 kilos (303 lbs).

Dr Andy Borsch has been taking fishing trips to Norway since 1979. The fish he reeled out of Monday was the biggest ever.
Most of the halibut caught in the Langfjord weigh between 15 and 20 kilos, so Borsch's catch was historic.

Wettest August in 43 years

After one of the warmest and dryest summers in years, residents of southern Norway have had to wade through the wettest month of August since 1963.

With just a few days left in August, meteorologists feel they already can report that large portions of the southeastern districts are setting precipitation records.
Heavy rains are expected over the next few days as well.
Flood warnings remain, but there's some good news: The sudden deluge has raised water levels in several reservoirs, in turn raising hopes that skyrocketing electricity prices may ease.

Visit by a strange cat

This is a cat who visit us almost every afternoon.

A foggy morning

An enormous head

The head is huge. How big was the fish?

Lake in the mountain

This is a dead calm lake who I visit in the mountain this summer. The water was very cold.

Warm and dry summer

After a warm and dry summer, my lawn looks like a desert and most of the leaves of the trees are brown.

Glaciers melting at record rate

It's been a warm summer in Norway, and that's sped up the shrinking process that already had hit the country's glaciers. Experts say the glaciers are breaking up and literally running away at a record tempo this summer.

The melting of the glaciers will make them more dangerous, experts warn, adding that some may even disappear entirely within the next 50 years.
This summer marks the third time in the last six years that scientists are registering a considerable reduction in the glaciers. Measurements taken in Jotunheimen, in the mountains of western Norway, at Svartisen and in West Finnmark show that the snows that fell last winter have disappeared quickly. Only at Svartisen were larges areas of the glacier still covered with the past winter's snow.

Summer holiday

The summer holiday is over for this year. It's been a great vacation with a lot of walking in the mountain.
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