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Norwich – the touristy bit
I was in Norwich about a month ago to do a one week course in python for biologists. It’s good to have a camera and a kindle close when you are alone for a week and I thought I’d show you the touristy part of my week.
This was “my” street.
The catholic cathedral I passed every day on my way to the bus stop. The old part of Norwich was so pretty.
Norwich had an incredible number of churches, this one was just around the corner and apparently getting a touch up.
The house opposite. I often almost got lost during the week, but I always recognized this house and then I knew I was close.
So many nice independent shops and places in the old houses. So pretty!
And there was a 2CV parked outside my house one day 😀 That makes me happy.
There were just so many pretty houses in Norwich.
And nice, old pubs where you could get a half pint and some peace and quiet.
But still there was street art, really good street art.
The Library bar, where we had a dinner together the Wednesday. It is the old public library that is turned into a bar and restaurant, I hope the new libarary is nice.
The old market square looked pretty even in the evening when everything was closed. It might be strange pfotographing things that are closed, but I was busy all day with the course and it was nice having the camera for company when I walked alone in the evenings.
The old part of Norwich was well worth roaming and it was quite small, so easy to navigate and get around. I highly recommend going there just for the architecture and for good food.
I will show you food and people later 🙂
New hat
When we were in Trondheim this weekend we had time to stop by some shops to look for new hats. We have both lost our hats and needed new. And at H&M we found a version in grey or blue merino wool in the men’s department for 250 kr 🙂
So yesterday I was in grey and brown. The coat I bought at UFF last year and Erik’s amazingly soft scarf and the mew hat of course.
Trådkurver!
Nå har vi til og med trådkurver til luer, skjerf og votter 🙂
Satser på at vi får fiksa litt mer i leiligheten denne uka. Men i dag skal vi på teater! Hurra!
The beach
Just wanted to post some pictures from the day where we probably did the least. The day I managed to get the guys to go to the beach with me for a whole day.
Ladies sunbathing with all their clothes on, including, scarf, hat and gloves.
People brought their tents as usual.
We kept our feet out of the warm sand, because it was volcanic sand.
Sweaty (reading) men.
My favorite activity on the beach is to build sand castles 🙂 I bring my own shuffle everywhere I go.
Oh, and my new cut out swimsuit.
Champions!
Yeah, I got really sun burned.
Stripey, stripey, to cool off during lunch.
We went to have iced coffees, before we had to say good bye to Ruben. But luckily we met later the next week in Oslo.
Last (late) night in Korea
The last Saturday in Korea we went to Korea House in Seoul to see some traditional Korean music and dance and after that we found a live music jazz bar and some cocktails.
This is my new dress from Lucky Chouette! It is silk and has the most amazing cut, just perfect.
I’m also wearing pearls, earrings from the Afghanistan exhibition in Trondheim, my favorite bag from Kate Spade and new Korean made shoes.
My handsome man.
How my nail polish matches his shirt and the pattern on my dress. Cool, eh?
And here starts the show. We saw a show that sort of sums up many different traditional arts, and every day there is a different combination of artists. I guess they have other things to do as well. This is the traditional drum dance, where each dancer has five (as here) or three drums. This is actually used in a music video of a k-pop band (2:40).
This is a woman playing a traditional harp/sitar like instrument.
A dance with long sleeves done sort of in slow motion.
Traditional, super fast, choreographied drumming.
Dancing with fans.
And this dancing and drumming combination where they had these ribbons on their hats that they danced with at the same time. Very impressive and cool.
This guy was drumming and moving so that the thing on his hat beat like a heart.
The whole crew in traditional Korean costumes.
Then we were off to the jazz club.
We actually went to two jazz gigs during our two weeks in Korea. I wish there were more jazz places in Oslo, then I would go every weekend.
Stue og ost
Erik hadde kjøpt masse deilig ost til da jeg kom hjem fra Norwich og vi innså fort at vi hadde mer enn nok til gjester. Så da inviterte vi Tone over på ost og vin (og øl). Og så tok jeg noen bilder av stua i samme slengen. Det er dessverre allerede to uker siden vi gjorde noe i leiligheten sist, men jeg håper vi snart føler vi har roen til å gjøre litt til. Er fremdeles en del detaljer igjen som må fikses. Røykvarslere ikke minst…
Mmmmost! Parmesan, Manchego, Stilton, Brie, det var deilig. Og så hadde vi litt akasiehonning 😉
De gule tallerknene er nye. Jeg arvet dem fra farmor og de er faktisk veldig praktiske. De er sikkert fra 50-tallet og er derfor ganske små. Det er utrolig å tenke på hvor mye porsonsstørrelser har endret seg på 60 år. Disse er i hvert fall våre nye “slanketallerkner”, fordi de får deg til å føle deg mett og forsynt fordi du har fylt tallerkenen din, men det ikke var så mye mat.
Ny skrotlampe fra billigkroken på IKEA 🙂
Nye sofaer, bord arvet fra farmor, Eriks lenestol fra IKEA og verdens beste ullpledd fra Berger.
Vi har ikke ordnet ordentlige lamper ennå, men vi har stålamper over alt. Eller innflytningsfesten har vi massevis av planter også 🙂 Og så ser dere at Erik har fått plass til alle brettspillene sine i hylla, ikke dårlig!
Masse plass til langbord og to sofagrupper! Det er utrolig deilig.
Styling
Doing gold and burgundy with my dress this time!
Exercise plan
I have not been exercising as much as I should to keep healthy lately, but Erik managed to get me out of the house on Sunday. We did a “power” session at Elixia and Erik tricked me suggested that we enter the challenge. The challenge is to attend Elixia 20 times the next 60 days, which is just crazy, but we are going to try.
This means 3-4 times at the gym a week, as if my calendar is not full enough… But I will hopefully be much fitter by Christmas… So this week I went yesterday, and will have to go at least Wednesday (after a meeting) and Thursday (before packing for Trondheim).
I am going to die…
Galla og UKA
Nå skal jeg snart på UKA i Trondheim! Og fordi jeg for det meste har gått i denne kjolen når jeg har vært i galla de siste årene:
Og plutselig møtte jeg noen i akkurat samme kjole (om enn annen farge) sist vi var i Trondheim på galla, så var det på tide å finne en kjole til.
Ettersom jeg ikke har noe stort kjolebudsjett denne høsten var det brukt som fikk duge. Jeg gikk innom UFF på Jerbanetorget og UFF Underground i Storgata 1 og endte opp med denne for 250 kr. Ikke dårlig!
Den er i svart fløyel, har høy splitt med gjennomsiktig gullstoff i og spagettistropper. Jeg lurer på å ta bort stroppene, men jeg får se hvor mye tid jeg får før jeg drar. Begynner å glede meg til UKA nå! Samfundet, revyen og ukefølelsen, dette skal bli deilig.
I går fikk jeg til og med endelig funnet en plass til penskoene mine også, så nå begynner jeg å komme i orden, sånn pentøymessig, hjemme.
Hva pleier du å ha på deg på galla? Hvor mange lange kjoler kan man egentlig eie?
Insects are incredible
Insects are one of my favorite subjects to photograph, but I did do a lot of running around after butterflies this time.
All pictures from a hike in Okpo, South Korea
Thursday 17. Oct
Grey, woolen dress, vintage laquered red belt from my grandmother, red tights from Florence and my favorite boots.
Vi vil bestemme selv!
Fra Susanne Kaluza. Apropos epostaksjonen om å stoppe muligheten for fastleger til å nekte henvisninger til prevansjon, abort og prøverørsbehandling.
Kan det også hende det viser at kvinnene som først har opplevd belastningen med å gå uønsket gravid, og så har opplevd belastningen ved å bli avvist av fastlegen, ikke orker merbelastningen ved å klage? For hvor henvender man seg egentlig om man vil klage på fastlegen sin?
Men de bør ikke frivillig søke seg til en fastlegestilling der de, lønnet av fellesskapet, vil møte kvinner som trenger et svangerskapsavbrudd eller assistert befruktning. Det finnes en rekke andre legejobber der disse henvisningsnektende legene kan gjøre en stor og viktig innsats for samfunnet.
Våre mødre, bestemødre og oldemødre kjempet fram loven om selvbestemt abort. 30 år etter er kvinnens rett til å bestemme over sin egen kropp angrepet av KrF.
The old part of Seoul
I have talked about Korea to everyone I’ve met after we came home. It was just so crazy and wonderful. But because of very little internet and even less free time, I have not had time to actually blog my pictures (or get the last week of Korea into Dropbox).
But as I have literally thousands of pictures, I thought I should just do this cronologically and maybe I have time to transfer the rest of the pictures before I run out of the ones I have…
Day one: we did a tour of the historic part of Seoul, filled with old fashioned houses. And old fashioned in Korea means 800 years old. Old means 4000 years.
A beautiful roof end.
A river in the middle of Seoul, where everyone used to get their water.
A big traditional house.
A stone pagoda.
In this area of Seoul, these old houses were ordinary houses for families, not just in museums.
I love how this old house is used as a shop, a merge of old and new.
In Korea they invented heated floors 800 years ago, using this technique.
Since the 1970’s they have renovated many of the houses and given them modern facilities. They are of course guarded by UNESCO.
Waiting for the metro. We never waited for more than 5 minutes.
This is what a narrow escalator looks like in Korea, one person only.
DMZ
We visited the demilitarized zone between South and North Korea. There are a lot of bus tours and even though you know that everything they tell you is propaganda, it is still an interesting insight into the ongoing conflict between the two countries. If we had planned better we would have gone to the border where the soldiers from the South and North are staring at each other, but we didn’t. But here are the pictures I was allowed to take.
In the news
The relative dangers of drugs: from science and Thomas Kleppestø:
What I get from this is that any drug is bad for you and you should be careful.
Some very funny and smart life hacks to parenting:
ctrl + c, ctrl + v
Glimpses of nature
Thought I’d share some nature photography from my trip to South Korea. We did some hiking in the woods and I found many beautiful plants and animals. Here are some shots from people’s gardens just at the edge of the woods.
Things every self respecting man over 30 should own
Now, I am neither a man nor over 30, but I was intrigued by the title and read through the list thinking of both me and Erik. Now that we have finished most of the remodeling and even have TWO sofas, the apartment is really started to have a feel of togetherness.
And because I am at a course in Norwich and have too much spare time I scored Erik and I separately and us together to see how self respecting we are and how much we have to fix the next 4-5 years…
So, this is our graph. Erik is the blue one, I am red and us combined is the green. We compliment each other, but we have also both developed since we met and there are things that we both have now that we didn’t two years ago. There are also things one of us don’t have because the other one has it. But there aren’t much we are missing, I am happy to see.
Missing:
- undershirts
- lint roller
- record player
- solid book collection
And we have been talking about a CD-player at least (as we don’t actually have any LPs, but hundreds of CDs) to go with the speakers that we have. And we should probably introduce a lint roller too. I don’t know about the undershirts, but I think that we won’t have a solid book collection. I think we will end up having books on the Kindle, but not on the shelf. We’ll read them and then donate them.
What do you think? How would you score?
Dreaming of summer and rock festivals
We drove to this free rock festival just outside Busan in Ruben’s car.
Erik and Ruben did not plan this.
They didn’t have light shows, but water shows and there was this big mud pit.
There was even this firetruck to keep people cool.
Aren’t we pretty?
Cool Korean festival girls.
We used our umbrella for shade.
As we didn’t have a tent…
I had just bought a new bikini and was very happily matching the two guys.
Mmmm, iced coppi.