Northerners worry most

A new national survey has charted what Norwegians worry about most, and who does the most worrying.

The survey revealed a tendency for those living in the northern region of the country to be most worried. Their biggest fear was traffic injuries, with personal health, electricity prices, extreme weather and food safety next on their list of concerns.

Trace from an animal in the snow

My daugther poses in the wood

Where do we comes from?

All my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions, where do we comes from.
Do we descend from Adam and Eve as the Bible says. I don't believe it. I belive we decend from the ape or the Universe. This ape migth be a far lineage of me.
He almost look like me too. he...he..

Candidate to Miss Norway

This is Cathrine Karlsen (19), she comes from my neighbourhood. She is one of the participator to Miss Norway.

First Norwegian Oscar since 1952

She now lives in Canada, but Torill Kove had a long list of people in Noway to thank as she grasped the first Oscar won by a Norwegian since Thor Heyerdahl's Kon Tiki snatched the award for best documentary in 1952.

She won for her direction of a short animated film called "The Danish Poet"
Produced by Lise Fearnley and Marcy Page for Norway’s Mikrofilm and the National Film Board of Canada, the 15-minute is the story of Kaspar, a poet whose creative well has run dry, who embarks on a holiday to Norway. On the way his quest for inspiration is supported by a spell of bad weather, angry dogs, cows that slip from barn planks, careless postmen, hungry goats and other seemingly unrelated factors.

Behind the curtain

Royals pour into Oslo

Princess Madeleine of Sweden













Four reigning monarchs, a host of princes and princesses and two presidents were all arriving in Oslo within hours of each other Friday afternoon, to spend the weekend celebrating King Harald's 70th birthday.

Boathouse

A boathouse (or boat house) is a building especially designed for the storage of boats, normally smaller craft for sports of leisure use. These are typically located by open water, such as on a river. Often the boats stored are rowing boats. Other boats such as punts or small motor boats may also be stored.
It may also include a restaurant, bar, and other leisure facilities, perhaps for members of an associated club. Boathouses are also sometimes modified to include living quarters for people, or the whole structure may be used as temporary or permanent housing.

The clacier's goes into retreat slowly

The bottom portion of Norway's Storbreen (Big Glacier) in Jotunheimen has split in two and is steadily melting.

Several years of warm summers and poor snowfall have left Bretunga, the lower part of the glacier, in poor shape.

The glacier is now clearly divided in two. Less than ten years ago it was completely joined there at the bottom.

More or less all of Norway's glaciers are now on the retreat. They are shrinking in both length and volume, and the trend has been clear since the beginning of the 20th century.

Glaciers react quickly to changes in temperature and precipitation, and provide much useful information to climate researchers.

Frost mist

My neighbours cat sitting on the monitor

Norway tops in coffee drinking

Nearly 41 tons of coffee was imported to Norway this year, meaning the country of just 4.5 million people is in the top ranks of coffee consumption on a per capita basis.
Perhaps it's the cold winters, or simply tradition in a country where it's common to invite people over simply for cake and coffee. The brew is a fixture at dinner parties, where it's common for dinner guests to leave the table after dessert and adjourn to another room for coffee, cake and often a cognac around smaller tables.

Horny moose kills

Workers at the new Norwegian Moose Center have learned that even the most docile moose can turn murderous when his hormones take Bruse the moose apparently gored two calves to death in recent weeks.


Two small moose calves were recently found dead on Moose Center property, one last weekend and the other in the middle of the previous week. Both showed clear signs of having been gored to death.


A two-and-a-half-year-old male moose who also lives on Center property is the likely culprit

Snow stranded motorist

Civil defense troops and Red Cross workers launched efforts Thursday morning to evacuate motorists who were stranded overnight on the main highway along Norway's southern coast.













Heavy snows, high winds and bitterly cold temperatures ended up halting all traffic on the E-18.
Hundreds of cars and trucks lost control or were unable to drive because of snowdrifts or lack of visibility or both.
Some drivers were stuck in their vehicles overnight, and ran out of gas while sitting still and keeping their heaters running. Rescue crews were trying to get gasoline and food in to the drivers, while the Red Cross evacuated a busload of retirees who had been out on an excursion.

Some have been stuck in their cars up to 20 hours.

Norway's King Harald is 70 years today

Congratulation to our king who celebrates his 70th birthday today!
He and Queen Sonja, who turns 70 this summer, invited their children and grandchildren on a family vacation to the Caribbean last month. "It was a big success, and incredibly important for us to be together like that," he said.

Breakfast in the summer house

One of my grandchild having breakfast.
From last years vacation.

The watcher

Look at me, I'm watching the wireless router. (Almost sleeping watch)

Very old vehicle

An very old vehicle, drawn by horses. From around 1900-1910.

Flu keeps raging nationwide

Norwegians continued to be knocked flat, quite literally, by an aggressive influenza virus this week. The flu has thinned the ranks at many workplaces, cancelled scheduled performances and left long lines at overburdened doctors' offices.

It's the influenza A virus, also known as H3N2 or Wisconsin Flu, that's spread over Norway this years. It's a distant relative of the Hong Kong Flu that hit in 1968.
Fortunately, I'm in good health... I drink cod-liver oil every day. I hope it's helps...

Still waiting for the summer to come back

Picture from last years vacation

Fur found in taco

Just a week after some Norwegian meat-eaters found a claw in their sausage, a mother in Bergen also had a nasty surprise during Friday night’s taco dinner.
We had eaten up most (of the dinner) when I felt I had something strange in my mouth," she said. "I could tell right away it was something with animal fur."
So be aware of the food you eat, the content might be odd...

Craig Bellamy vs John Arne Riise

Picture from News Of the World.



John Arne Riise, a Norwegian soccer player who plays for Liverpool F.C., got beating by his teammate Bellamy in Portugal last Friday. Fougth in a hotel as Bellamy lashed out at Riise's £5 million legs with a golf club.

A FUN sing-song turned into a vicious punch-up as Liverpool Craig Bellamy saw red and waded into team-mate John Arne Riise in a drunken rage.

News Of The World
VG (Norwegian)

Longing for the summer

It's raining now and the temperature is just over freezing point. I'm waiting for the spring and summer arrieves.

(Hope springs eternal in the human breast)

An early morning trip by the sea

Rally Norway takes off

Rally fans have descended on Norway for the first time, as "Rally Norway" roared off to a slippery start on Friday.

Both of Norway's best-known rally drivers, brothers Henning and Petter Solberg, said they were doing the best they could on super-slippery roads in the southeastern county of Hedmark.
Rally Norway, being held for the first time, is expected to attract as many as 100,000 spectators this weekend.

Playing in the snow

Visitors from China

Almost every time I update my blog, visitors from China find one's way to my blog after one or two minutes. I've noticed this the last two weeks, I belive.
Am I under surveillance? Well,I don't think so,I'm just a blogger from a little country.
For instance this evening:
16 February 20:11 Chinanet, China
16 February 20:11 Chinanet, China
16 February 20:12 Chinanet, China
Have a wonderful time in China and all over the world.

Winter paradise

Moose eating in the wood

Moose eat up to 40 pounds (18 kg) of wood a day, enough to fill two large garbage cans.

Honeymooned with suitcase full of cash

In 2004 author Ari Behn switched banks in order to stop the leaks of information to gossip weekly Se og Hør (See and Hear). In 2002 he and Princess Märtha Louise went on their honeymoon with a suitcase full of cash to keep their spending private.

"I have been fully aware for years that my credit card use details were being leaked. So I changed banks in 2004 after various stories and leaks, but I was already aware of the problem in 2002," Behn said.

Russia reclassified as a military threat

Norwegian defense officials aren't declaring a new Cold War with Russia, but Norway's huge neighbour in the northeast is once again being described as a threat, also in the military sense.

Relations between Russia and Norway have been strained of late, over incidents ranging from illegal fishing in the Barents to collapsed investment prospects in Russian gas fields to Russian restrictions on salmon imports.
At the same time, Russia has been asserting itself all over Europe, often in unpopular ways.
Russia has always been a threat to Norway, a little country, just 4.6 millin pepople and almost no defense....

"Snow Hat" and an old house

It's still winter here in Norway

Bank probes royal leaks

The Norwegian branch of Nordic bank Nordea vows a full investigation into how bank account statements for Princess Märtha Louise and other celebrities wound up in the hands of reporters.

The bank, regulators and other media are crying foul after a newspaper reported over the weekend that the royal bank account statements were leaked to the magazine.

To the press: Shame on you!

Icicles

Winter is finally arriving across Norway

Freeze arrives
Norwegians have spent most of the winter complaining about the lack of snow and skiing, but now bitterly cold weather is on the way.
School had to close because the temperature in the classrooms was below + 10C.
Parts of inland eastern Norway must prepare for temperatures below -20C (-4F) as the weekend approaches.
The meteologs expects temperatures in Oslo and the mountains in southern Norway to hover around -15 to -20C (+5 to -4F). brrrrrrrrr.......... I'm longing for the summer.

Winter landscape

Dead Calm

The morning after

A trip in the snow

Hunting and fishing - part of our cultural inheritance

Many people in Norway are interested in the outdoor life. Physical activity in clean, untouched nature is a tonic for many, whether it is a trip in the mountains, on the plains or through the coastal landscape.

Hunting and fishing - part of our cultural inheritance
Interest in, and the desire to take part in, hunting and fishing is fundamental for Norwegians. From being an essential activity to put food on the table, hunting and fishing have become popular leisure activities. Food prepared from game and self-caught fish have a flavour that is unsurpassed. The experience of nature through hunting and fishing gives a marvellous release from the stress of everyday life for many men and women. Each year more and more women take their hunting certificate in order to be able to hunt actively.

Northern cities quarrel over wich one is northernmost

Picture from Hammerfest

Two Norwegian cities are quarreling over which one of them can claim the title of being the northernmost city in the world.

Hammerfest lies at just over 70 degrees north, while Honningsvåg lies at just under 71 degrees. For more than 200 years, though, Hammerfest has claimed that it's the northernmost city in the world.

Winter landscape