17.mai

Posted on 27/07/2013 by Ingeborg

Greit, jeg vet jeg er treig. Men for en uke siden fikk jeg endelig satt meg ned og overført bilder fra kameraet mitt. Og det som var aller eldst var bilder fra 17.mai. 17.mai i år var skikkelig bra. Vi hadde frokost hos oss, men alt for mye mat og mange bunader. Vi dro ned til sentrum og fikk sett litt barnetog og unngikk å drukne i det ene regnskyllet som kom. Vi spiste lønsj i logen med familien til Erik, hørte på Den Norske Studentsangforening og pappa på aulatrappa og spiste is med mine foreldre. Så dro vi til Sofienbergparken for å drikke øl og prate skit med venner. Fordi vi skulle på kanotur dagen etter ble det en kort kveld, men det var en veldig bra dag.

Sunday in Eastlake

Posted on 23/07/2013 by Ingeborg

So Eastlake is the area of Seattle where we stay and Sunday we decided to have a calm day here. The two things that happened were that we got groceries from Amazon Fresh delivered on our doorstep and we found a quiet pier and red a book the rest of the day.

The groceries! It doesn’t get easier than this. Open a webpage, click on the things you want, open the door the next day and there they are.

Erik was especially exited.

Steam powered boat with the most impressive whistle.

Happy and soon to be very sunburned Ingeborg.

Chose extra glamorous bling for the day.

We’re back to reading out loud to each other. The best past time activity.

People live in houses on the water. Looks cozy and crowded.

Hello, handsome.

Indian party

Posted on 05/07/2013 by Ingeborg

Quite a while ago we were invited to Tina and Jeevan in Ås to have Indian food and meet all the interesting Indians in Ås

Tina to the right, btw

This is Jeevan and Erik

Playing with marbles

All of us together. Malik to the far left also works at CIGENE with Tina and me.

(please ignore that Erik and I are totally maching…)

I really love those tights

All the guys had plaid shirts

I didn’t get a single picture of the food, because I eat it with my hands (no fork) like real Indians do, and then you can’t take pictures at the same time. But it was really good, Tina is a wonderful chef and I love chapati with all my heart.

Spring at UMB

Posted on 11/06/2013 by Ingeborg

Just wanted to show you how good the gardeners at UMB are and that I really appreciate that the uni spends money on flowers. The campus looks lovely. These are from the uni summer party a couple of weeks ago.

Last, but not least, Firenze

Posted on 04/06/2013 by Ingeborg

These are my best pictures from our days in Firenze (Florence).

Vegetables at the marked just around the corner from Victoria’s flat.

Buying meat in the food hall.

Walking around town in the cold.

Massive doors in the old part of town.

Home cooked meals.

The big cathedral.

In Italy, more is more.

We saw most of the museums only from the outside.

I love the level of detail!

David nmbr 3 and I

Ponte Veccio in the background.

Coffee on a cold day.

A summer dress

Nuns in the street (they were tourists)

The bag I didn’t buy. It was lovely, but heavy.

Playing boardgames on the iPad together with a bottle of wine in the early afternoon.

Chocolate place where you needed to buy minimum 7 pieces. Oh, no…

An old fashioned gentleman store where Erik bought a pair of woolen trousers for winter.

Their pattern diversity was wonderful.

We found a marked and bought 12 port glasses. Not these cups though.

And found a really cool restaurant with a great wine selection.

We have even started our own cork collection 😉 (only champagne ones, though).

Don’t you just love these chairs?

I bought these shades at the marked, too. 4€ and made in Italy.

Italian cooking

Posted on 03/05/2013 by Ingeborg

The last day of our trip, we went to a cooking class to learn some Italian food art.

The house where we stayed

Our teacher

Italian bacon crisps

Tiny, round squash.

Rice and egg fill.

Huge aubergine in the oven.

Erik doing the work.

The basis of ITalian cooking, olive oil, garlic…

…and tomatoes.

We filled them 🙂

Five year old parmesan, it was superb. And this is the proper size for a piece of cheese.

The best balsamic vinegar that I dipped my cheese in. I know, we had the best time.

Vegetarian “lasagna” with aubergine and tomato sause.

And parmesan on top.

Pisa

Posted on 01/05/2013 by Ingeborg

We just had to go to Pisa. Erik put his foot down and said that we had to try to get into the tower (because I didn’t want to queue for ages for all the museums in Florence) because we had to see the inside of just one thing. And lucky for us both, there was no queue. No queue! Because we arrived just 1,5 hours before they closed, so everyone had left. And it had been raining that day. But we were very happy. Before we went to see the tower we had lunch, met my cool friend Silvia who owns a comic book shop in the old town of Pisa.

Handy hooks for bags on the wall.

Super high roof.

Getting into Italian comics.

Silvia, the coolest Italian.

Rain with sand from Sahara.

The Nokia GPS led us safely through Pisa to the tower.

See! It was actually leaning! I was surprised, I have to admit. I didn’t think it was that leaning.

It is the bell tower of the cathedral.

Erik giving it a helping hand.

Me being jolly.

No queue, no people.

Macro lenses are wonderful for detail shots high up on buildings.

This is the inside the tower. There is nothing in it, just air and a lot of things to keep it from toppling over.

A guide told us about the history of the tower. The true contractor is not known, because he stopped all work after finishing the three first floors and was never heard of again. But 50 years later someone else thought it would be cool to finish the tower, so they did. It used to lean more, but they have straightened it a bit. They could make it completely straight, but that wouldn’t be economical…

The only thing in the tower is the staircase. And it was totallyl weird to walk it, both up and down. You can see Erik standing straight and the tower leaning. We were constantly compensating for the leaning and walking on the left or right of the steps. Superstrange.

At the top of the tower, with the bells still in use (Italians are good at using things that are old when they still work, instead of building something new).

Pisa.

Cathedral from above.

We were not the first to walk these steps.

There were two fences around the top, one in ordinary height (waist height) and one two meter high. We guessed it was because on the “down side” it felt like it would not catch you if you actually tripped and fell.

There were 30 min left before everything closed, so we went in and looked at the cathedral too.

As they say in Italy (I guess): “more is more”.

This is a detail of the roof, maybe 40 meters above. Did I tell you that a macro lens is also wanderful for taking pictures of roofs in high churches? Well they are.

Det er vår, det er lyst om kvelden

Posted on 25/04/2013 by Ingeborg

Det er så lyst om kveldene nå at jeg alltid smiler når jeg går inn døra hjemme. Det er deilig med sol fra man våkner til man legger seg (nesten). Jeg er så klar for sommer!

Siena

Posted on 25/04/2013 by Ingeborg

We visited so many places during the trip, including Siena. We only spent the afternoon there, but we had time for both two churches, icecream and dinner.

There is this valley in the middle of Siena and we parked on the other side. So here we are walking over to the right side.

A lot of rock.

A lot of steep hills here too.

Italians adapt (and custom make furniture).

Italy is really a good place for maens fashion. So many colours and patterns and everything.

Another duomo.

Stripy pasta.

Icecream!

The sloping town square.

We found a window ledge to kick back on.

In Italy, more is more.

Girl in yellow

Posted on 23/04/2013 by Ingeborg

Macro lens + sun = perfection

Posted on 21/04/2013 by Ingeborg

Sant Angelo, Ciniganno

Posted on 20/04/2013 by Ingeborg

We spent two nights in Sant Angelo, a random wine area in Montalcino, just to walk in a wineyard and relax. I’ll post all the close ups of nature later.

We were walking along an old train track, when a train suddenly appeared. A steam driven one 🙂

It was a wonderful sunny day.

Standard, simple lunch.

My evening makeup and dress. I also wore my new metal tipped shoes.

Sheep

Posted on 18/04/2013 by Ingeborg

The camera on my phone has not been functioning for some days now, so while I’m waiting for the time to give the phone a spring cleaning I’m using my iPad as camera. I have never felt so silly while taking a picture (and I generally feel silly when I take pictures of myself) as I do when using the iPad. It feels like taking a picture with a book. It’s too big and everything.

But I will nevertheless give you of the sheep that are grazing just outsiden my office window.

San Gimignano

Posted on 17/04/2013 by Ingeborg

San Gimignano is a small town an hour south of Florence that is mostly known for all its towers. The families of the town went a bit crazy and buildt towers to prove how rich they were, the higher the richer. They now have 25 towers still standing, nothing ever ends in Italy. Victoria came with us to se this strange town.

I couldn’t get enough of the landscape.

Freshly clipped olive grove.

I love flowers on a bare branch.

Every town in Italy is placed on a hill.

In the back you see the old town.

First coffee of the day.

I liked San Gimignano mostly because it looked like people actually lived there.

The biggest alperose (English name?) I have ever seen.

Door hammers were serious business.

Towers and stairs

Towering over me 😉

A very old door.

Town hill.

This was the venue of our second lunch. The first one was not good enough to photograph, but this place was wonderful. Not only did they have flowers on every wall, but also the best bruscetta in the world.

Italians do simple food, bread and olive oil. I could have lived my whole life eating just that.

Bruscetta! Which really is just toast with tomatoes, traditionally. They just do it so well.

The coolest (coffee) bar

Posted on 11/04/2013 by Ingeborg

…happens to be in Cremona, Italy. We stopped there by chance the first day on our trip. It was at this precise mmoment we learned that Italians have a well regulated feeding shedule. Breakfast is just a cup of espresso and maybe a piece of cake, lunch is between 12.20 and 15.00, then dinner from 19.00 to 22.00. Which means that it is impossible (at least in small towns) to get anything to eat between 15.00 and 19.00. As long as you have a big plate of pasta of pizza (as we usually did), it is no problem to wait, but you have to remember to find a restaurant before 14.15…

All of this was unknown to us the first day, so we spent a lot of time in this wonderful coffee bar, using his wifi and eating all his cakes.

Back to the bar itself. The bar is really a coffee roaster, you know, they roast their own coffee and then make it on the spot. The design of the place was wonderful, clean and cozy. Have a look:

Close ups from Italy

Posted on 09/04/2013 by Ingeborg

Just wanted to post a couple of close ups from the first part of our trip to Italy

It was a bit cold, as you can see

Rainy Sunday in Paris

Posted on 27/03/2013 by Ingeborg

I ended up having almost a whole day of spare time in Paris after my meeting there. I didn’t have any “most dos” and not very much is open on Sundays, but it ended up being a good day. I tried to find a Sunday marked, but is was raining (we even had hail in the end), so nobody were out. And that city is really big, so it takes some time just to get around. I didn’t want to get my camera wet, so these are the only good ones I took.

José and Jón (and my suitcase) were my company for some of the day. Here we are hiding from a sudden shower of rain.

I found a flowering tree <3

I tried to find a street marked, but they were all closed.

My lunch. It was actually sort of a strange, because it was extremely difficult to chew, but perfectly done. And the chips were heaven.

What I saw of the Eiffel tower.

There is definitely something about the architecture in this town, it’s grandness, maybe…

Pretty lamppost

Modern art meets classic art

Slottsparken

Posted on 16/03/2013 by Ingeborg

I was lucky enough to have time and light enough to walk through the park with my camera in hand. There is nothing more beautiful than a sunset, so that is what you get.

Tekehtopa

Posted on 14/03/2013 by Ingeborg

De hadde litt forskjellig utvalg, men bartenderne var så travle med matservering, at de ikke hadde mye tid til å prate.

Har nye, røde øredobber jeg har fått av Erik

Pene folk

Jeg fikk telefon til å plugge i telefonen min 🙂

Dat smile

*roar*

Det var så mange folk som kom! Jeg er kjempeglad for at så mange hadde tid til å komme å drikke øl med meg.

Skoleveien min

Posted on 12/03/2013 by Ingeborg

På tide med noen natur- og landskapsbilder igjen. Nå som jeg ikke går til jobb og for det meste befinner meg i asfaltjungelen blir det ikke så mye naturbilder. Men fredag 1. mars hadde jeg med meg kameraet hele dagen og fikk tatt noen bilder at den vakre naturen jeg ser hver dag.