So last night we were out with friends at Olympen to have whole roasted (suckle?) pig. I love coming together like this and really wish we could do it more often. To share a meal, have some really wonderful food and spend an evening with amazing people. I highly recommend the whole roasted pig at Olympen if you want a place for your Christmasparty or a friend get together like we did. It is already a tradition!
Did trustworthy red yesterday 😉
So last night we were out with friends at Olympen to have whole roasted (suckle?) pig. I love coming together like this and really wish we could do it more often. To share a meal, have some really wonderful food and spend an evening with amazing people. I highly recommend the whole roasted pig at Olympen if you want a place for your Christmasparty or a friend get together like we did. It is already a tradition!
Did trustworthy red yesterday 😉
The Tuesday in Norwich I was invited home to one of my class mate’s house for dinner. We walked to her house through the park that the Univeristy of East Anglia owns. They have a lake, a wood and some fields and it was beautiful to walk through.
You know what? This weekend I was social all three evenings. Don’t think I have had so much spare time in months. I know I haven’t, actually.
Friday we had dinner with Ruben at his parent’s place in Oslo, where he is staying while waiting for a VISA for USA. We had wild salmon! And afterwords we went to Kråka (the Crowbar), a really good brew pub. They only have beer, and it is all on tap. Great place.
Saturday we drove to Fredrik and Karianne in Jessheim to barbeque. It was actually my first barbeque this summer… Tells you a lot about my life this summer I guess. But yeah, we barbequed, talked, discussed travelling, work, houses and Trondheim. UKA is in a few weeks and Erik and Fredrik will be going a couple of times. I miss Trondheim a bit.
Sunday Erik’s aunt ha a birthday barbeque with more than enough rosé on their terrace. It was nice to see his whole family after the summer and hear what they all have been doing.
I’m home. We arrived late last night and now I’m at work.
Vi hadde en veldig hyggelig kveld på innflytningsfest i Helges nye hus, eller småbruk som det jo er.
Vi prater rundt rabarbraen.
Bille på rabarbrablomst.
Uthuset som skal bli brygghus.
Vedfyrt bakerovn som jeg gleder meg til å bruke.
Låve ved vannet.
Langveisfrabesøk og rabarbra.
Sjøen som skal få båt.
Skigarden har ikke vart evig.
Verdens kjekkeste mann.
Veldig bra grillmat. Helge har alt på stell.
Til og med Ægirglass til Rallaren min.
Huset som blir fullstendig omgjort inni.
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.
Pictures from when Tone turned yet another year older. Everyone blinked and half my pictures were blurry, but it was a good night.
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.
Kjære Tone
Jeg synes det er trist at du har vært borte så lenge, selv om jeg er glad for at du koser deg på reise. Jeg gleder meg til å høre om det morsomme du skal gjøre til høsten. Om to uker får vi nøklene til leiligheten og da kan du komme på besøk og sitte på balkongen og se på solnedgangen. Denne er til deg.
(det er en kake)
Saturday night when we got to know Jonas and Hilde in our building, we were being generous in turns. First they wondered if we would share their dessert (strawberries). We accepted, but said that we would bring some white port to add. Then after the port was empty they brought this one out. This is the best tequila I have ever tasted, and when I googled it seems the whoe internet likes it too. I even saw this post on Cake Wrecks:
I realise I didn’t really blog last week. But let me tell you, it was a crazy week. Tuesday it was our 2 year anniversary and we shared a bottle of wine over a homecooked meal and talked about life. Then the crazy started. Wednesday we packed all the gear we needed for the canoe trip and I cut my hair (finally!).
Thursday I went straight to Bekkestua, I picked up things I needed for the trip, my bunad and some of mom’s clothes from 20 years ago (3 new trousers, yay!). Then we went and got Dolly (my car) out of winter storage and I stopped by Alexander’s place to say hello. He was here over the weekend to see friends and family, very nice to see him 🙂 When I got home we organised all the food for the trip (two dinners ++ for 25 people) that Erik had bought, tidied the apartment and made it ready for our 17th of May breakfast.
Friday the guests started arriving at 8 and we had a magnificent breakfast, some lovely sparkling wine and lots of laughs. We went to the city centre to see the parade, almost drowned in a shower of rain, lunched with Erik’s family, listened to Den Norske Studentersangforening (including my dad) sing outside the Aula, then had icecream with my parents. We went to Sofienbergparken to hang with our friends for a while, but had to leave early because we had to go home and pack. It was super hot and wonderful weather and we looked lovely in our bunads. The rest of the evening we packed everything we needed for the trip, my parents delivered my kayak and we tried to get to bed early.
Saturday we were up 6.30 to transport everything to the scout house, get the big car Erik was to drive, meet the scouts and be on our way. All 25 left at 8.20 and were at Fjorda (Oppland) about two hours later. We taught the kids how to master the canoe, found a good camping spot and set up camp. Everyone loved the salmon for dinner and it was too warm to wear a woolen jumper around the camp fire.
Sunday they did a round of orienteering on the lake, doing tasks along the way. Erik and I were responsible for the food stop. We spent much of the day sitting in the sun watching the scouts make food. In the evening they all just swam and played because the weather was so nice.
Monday we did small things, cleaned up the camp area and canoed back to the cars. We were back by 18.00 and Erik and I were home, kayak and car delivered by 19.30. We managed to unpack and get everything up in the attic before we went to bed, super tired. What a weekend.
So now there’s this week. It looks to be a busy one as well, but at least I will be home this weekend.
I går var vi og så regieksamenen til Beate. Hun studerer teater og sånt og vi fikk komme og se på en av forestillingene hennes. Den het Annerledesmannen og var basert på et stykke som heter Elefantmannen. Det var en veldig god oppsetning og det var veldig deilig å være på teater igjen.
På grunn av det magiske været gikk vi og tok årets første utepils også. Solskinn, altså, det er deilig det.
Jeg må forresten anbefale restauranten Newroz som ligger rett ved St. Halvardsplass der, det er utrolig god mat (anbefaler mixed grill) og veldig bra pris. Dessuten får man alltid suppe mens man venter (gratis) og de er superraske. God sørvis er det også.
As I was in Tønsberg last weekend, I had to see Sara. It’s been ages and it was sunny and wonderful.
Sara looked gorgeous in mixed patterns and new jacket. I want one of those!
And this is Frank, he was also just visiting, but he lives in London.
We stopped by this bakery to get Sara some lunch (she had a hard time deciding).
I got a sweet bun and some juice.
I looked like a bum after the scout trip, but Frank lent me his sunnies so I look cooler here.
Sunny spontaneousness is the best!
Hurray! I have finally managed to find some pictures from my trip down south to France. These are from the meeting of 2CV friends itself, which was in Salbris. I have more pictures, but here are some to show you just how it was.
My brother’s car.
Many people upgraded while in Salbris. You see, all the car part dealers were there 🙂
We were two that needed to change the ignition system and lots of people who hang with us and talked and helped. Fun!
Sometimes it helps to be two.
Morten and Jan Erik were helping me. They are wonderful. Me in my 2CV shirt and Citröen caps.
A bit of adjustment to get the ignition right.
Lots of people were selling food. This guy made sausages…
These guys sold something that looked like sausage but definitely wasn’t. We never could find out what it was. And that was mostly because no-one could speak even the tiniest bit of English and nobody had bothered putting up signs in English. It was like they pretended it was only for French people and ignored the rest of us.
Most of our eating was done standing because none of the places selling food had brought anything to sit on.
Fresh out of military service.
Ice cream!
I had my first ever macaroons there. Terribly sweet, but good. But I needed two days to finish them all…
And then we went to a wine tasting 🙂
I want a castle like this (as long as you give me the money to keep it as well)!
Dad knows really much about wine and we learned a lot.
Eager tasters and listeners.
We were in the wine district Poille Fumé, which is very close to Sancerre and Burgundy. They mostly make white wines and rosé wines there and it is a quite small wine area almost in the middle of France.
It was terribly hot while we were there, but that was normal, I think.
This will be white wine, someday.
🙂 TRAKTOR! This day ended with an epic feast at our hotel, lots of wonderful wine from Poilly Fumé and Burgundy and the most wonderful goose paté and steak. It was heaven.
When we came back, the whole Norwegian camp had a BBQ.
We must have had 15 tables lined up.
After driving our cars, this is what we did second most during the two weeks we were on the road; reading. That is definitely what summers are for.
This is from the championship. The team is to take the 2CV apart, get all the parts through a whole and build the car again and then drive it two meters. The Fins won over the Portugese and spent about an hour doing this. It was really fun watching.
They had one car each, naturally.
This guy hand painted cars. They were really nice. Lots of people sold gadgets and things. I didn’t buy that many things, but it was fun just looking as well. (I mostly bought car parts…)
I have many more pictures, from the trip down, from Paris and more from the meeting in Salbris also. I have wonderful amounts of pictures of 2CVs, but all in good time.
I’m not only back in Trondheim, but I have started working on my thesis again as well, so the days are getting more and more busy. And the first thing I will do after starting working is going back to Oslo for almost a week… This September is going to fly by! I love the autumn 🙂