Hiking in Yeosu

Posted on 29/11/2013 by Ingeborg

Here is one of many eventful and beautiful days we had in Korea together with Ruben. We spent some days by the sea on the South shore in a place called Yeosu. They had the world exhibition there, but also very nice landscape.This day we went hiking and stumbled upon “kirkekaffe” in a Buddhist temple.

First we had noodles for breakfast at the G25, because nothing was open. But lots of school children did the same thing, so it must be ok.

This is where we parked the car.

My boys.

The map we tried to follow. We went up on the mountain, did a round and went down again.

Erik had just bought a new backpack in Seattle and it was perfect for short hike like this.

What Koreans who hike look like. Long sleeves, west, hat, gloves, long pants and scarves. We looked like aliens, but at least we also had colourful clothes…

We finally reached the top!

It was incredibly hot and humid.

Even Erik is getting the hang of the hand gestures 😉

The view from the other side of the mountain.

You couldn’t see far because of the humidity.

When we came down on the other side we found a temple.

Had to go and say hi.

They were in the middle of a service, so we waited on the outside and got some rest.

We went inside when they were finished to take some pictures, and it was clear that they didn’t get much tourists up there, because they invited us to their meal afterwards.

One of the women there also showed us how to pray in the temple.

Love this slightly loopsided tiger.

I didn’t dare take any pictures inside, put when we went into the common house, we queued for food, got noodles with vegetables and kimchi, ate at a big table in a big room together with all the others and listened to their talk. When we were finished we did our dishes and drove home.

The rest of the temple goers finding their cars and going home.

It was both such a surreal and normal thing to do, go to the temple, share food and be part of a community. And the fact that we had no common language was no problem.

When we came back we spent more time at what almost became our regular coffee shop, making a ruckus when we asked to move a table outdoors.

Local campus beer in Norwich

Posted on 11/11/2013 by Ingeborg

From my last night in Norwich, we went for a couple of pints of the campus beer with the participants that worked at TGAC and the uni. There they have a pub on campus and this Friday was quiz night.

We bought pints to prepare ourselves.

Read up on the local campus brewery.

We had the local brew, which was actually brewed for the John Innes Centre where the TGAC is, isn’t that cool?! Campus beer!

New friends and old colleagues having a pint on a Friday night. So nice.

I wish we had a place on campus where we could have a pint as well.

“Strong hoppy mixture, ideal for propagating discourse and contains elements essential for the vigorous growth of friendship.” That is the way we all like it. And the labels look so professional, don’t you think?

Here you can see “the vigorous growth of friendship” 🙂 The evening ended after a nice meal and some more beers. A good way to end a really good week of bioinformatics course.

How do you like to spend your Friday evenings? Would you like a campus beer? Or do you wish for something else? Maybe I am the only one, for there seems to be nothing happening in Ås at least.

A walk in the park

Posted on 07/11/2013 by Ingeborg

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.

Norwich – the touristy bit

Posted on 31/10/2013 by Ingeborg

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 🙂

The beach

Posted on 27/10/2013 by Ingeborg

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

Posted on 25/10/2013 by Ingeborg

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.

The old part of Seoul

Posted on 15/10/2013 by Ingeborg

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

Posted on 13/10/2013 by Ingeborg

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.

Dreaming of summer and rock festivals

Posted on 08/10/2013 by Ingeborg

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.

Aquariuuum

Gallery

Posted on 03/10/2013 by Ingeborg

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This is probably one of the strangest things that happened in Korea: we went to a water park/aquarium in Yeosu where the world expo was in 2012. It had a huge water tank with sharks and fish lots of space … Continue reading →

Home

Posted on 13/08/2013 by Ingeborg

I’m home. We arrived late last night and now I’m at work.

Korea is the coolest place I’ve been to yet.
The carpenter will finish the kitchen this week.
I have thousands of pictures to post.
I have yet another office. Hope this one will last.
The apartment is a mess. Will do a lot of unpacking from holiday and moving the next days.
Both Ruben and Fride will be in Oslo this weekend, hurray!
I have so much to do at work the next month 🙁
I am terribly sick of flying now. Will stay in Norway for a while.
It is super cold here 🙁

Downtown Seattle

Posted on 07/08/2013 by Ingeborg

There was Internet and a quiet night here in Okbo, so here are some more pictures. These also from Seattle. This is the Saturday we spent being tourists.

Hello! New bag and some colour.

Before breakfast.

Too many choices.

Mmmmm, coffee.

Hash brown, two eggs, bacon and toast. What else do you need?

Banana pancakes!

Then we did the underground tour of the city. The whole city is one story up and there is a whole network of sidewalks and things on the ground.

The city was founded in 1850-something when the first settlers arrived.

Up there is the street.

Old things that have been left behind.

What once was a very high building.

We then went to Pike Place Market, where you can find anything, but especially fish. We had breaded cod

and fish tacos for lunch.

Then we walked around and found this guy doing Korean painting.

And they sold loads of flowers.

So Erik bought flowers for me and we went home. This is actually outside the first ever Starbucks. The first one was here in Seattle.

In Seoul

Posted on 30/07/2013 by Ingeborg

Vi er i Seoul. Vi leser høyt her også 😉

Touristy Thursday

Posted on 30/07/2013 by Ingeborg

Our first day of doing anything touristy in Seattle was Thursday 18th. I had worked from home that day, so I went downtown to meet Erik. I was a little early, so I had time to pop by Kate Spade to buy my new bag and to try on some dresses.

This is the dress I was wearing that day. Notice the blue and white skirt behind me, unfortunately it was too small.

And they didn’t have these in the right size.

Then we went to the Space Needle. It is from the early 1960s and has a great view. You can also see it from everywhere in Seattle.

We had dinner at the rotating restaurant on the top. A bit over prized, but very good food. And we didn’t have to stand in line to get the elevator up!

Sailing competition!

Giant spiders on a roof.

Us and Seattle in the background.

Me in my wonderful 4€ second hand sunglasses.

Ting jeg gjerne skulle gjort når jeg blir rik

Posted on 26/07/2013 by Ingeborg

Få manikyr hver mandag.
Kjøpe en latterlig stor blomsterbukett hver uke.
Drikke cocktails på en onsdag.
Kjøpe middag på restaurant hele tiden.
Kjøpe frokost som noen har laget til meg.
Ha trebåt som noen andre må pusse.
Ha 3G dekning på padda i hele verden.
Ha utsikt til vann.
Ta drosje hjem når det er for varmt til å gå.

Og her i Seattle har vi kunnet gjøre en del av dette fordi alt er så billig her. Men så er det så mye som er teit også. Håper jeg ikke blir nødt til å bo i USA noen gang. Men nå er vi ferdige med USA og er på vei til Korea! Korea kommer til å bli snålt og det kommer til å bli veldig fint å se Ruben igjen. Eller Luben, som han heter der 😉

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.

Six weeks ago

Posted on 21/07/2013 by Ingeborg

It has now been six weeks since my last Saturday without plans. There has been one weekend meeting, three weekends of moving and two weekends of camp or preparation for camp. So today we did nothing. Which means that we did quite a lot…

Yesterday we went running for the first time in ages. It was total pain as I haven’t run in months and because it was hot and sunny. But it was good and Erik pushed me up all the hills and down again. After the run we went to the relly good restaurant just over the road for Italian. Pasta stuffed with ricotta and asparagus, some great amber ale and a whole bottle of sparkling wine. There was some live music and all the time in the world.

We started today in the local breakfast joint, sharing one plate of pancakes with banana and syrup and one of hash browns, eggs, bacon and toast. There were also some Cappucinos involved (learned that in Italy). We then did our grocery shopping through Amazon (it will be delivered tomorrow morning) and went into town. We did the underground tour, walked along the waterfront, got lost at the Pike Place Marked and I had my first ever fish tacos. We bought these flowers for 10$ and some groceries for dinner.

Now we are back home and hopefully we will be hungry soon. Need to remember that I don’t need a whole portion for my self…

Turist i Seattle

Posted on 19/07/2013 by Ingeborg

Nå har jeg vært i Seattle en arbeidsuke. Den begynte rolig og alene med middag på søndag og i løpet av mandag var Erik her. De første dagene hadde vi nok med å finne ut hvor vi kunne kjøpe busskort og å skaffe oss amerikanske telefonnummer så det ikke ble så dyrt å ringe hverandre. Men i går var vi endelig litt turister.

Jeg hadde hatt hjemmekontor og møtte Erik i sentrum, der kontoret hans er. Jeg rakk å kjøpe ny hverdagsveske (hurra!) før vi gikk til middag. Middag skulle være på toppen av Seattle Space Needle, på den litt overprisede restauranten som ga kortere kø og inkludert inngang (og som snurret) i tårnet. I løpet av måltidet rakk vi to runder rundt og fikk sett mye av Seattle og mye av bukta. Det var nydelig vær og vi så til og med Mount Rushmore sveve i disen.

Etter en deilig middag tok vi monorailen inn til sentrum igjen, så oss litt rundt og bestemte oss for at det var tid for kino. Passende nok så vi Pacific Rim, om skumle monster som kommer opp mellom tektoniske plater i Stillehavet. Bra å ha sett før vi flyr over det om en uke 😉

I løpet av helgen blir det nok Pike Place Marked, iskrem, joggetur, kanskje en tur på vannet og forhåpentligvis litt jazz. Skulle ønske vi var på jazzen (aka Moldejazz) i år, mange bra artister. Ellers er det veldig deilig å ikke ha en eneste plan og være helt fri.

Leiligheten er også bra, selv om katten er ekstremt kosesyk og ikke lar meg være i fred når jeg skal jobbe. Og så er det til å bli grinete av å måtte ha med seg passet sitt på restaurant for å få vin til maten når man er 25 år. Men i Bakvendtland der kan alt gå an… Nestenferie er i hvert fall superfint. Juli, altså!

Trouble

Posted on 15/07/2013 by Ingeborg

There has been a lot of traveling lately and not all of it has been as pleasant as I had hoped. I managed to get some sleep before I left Stavanger on Friday. I was up early enough, but not too much, for my flight home to Oslo. We managed to get all of the laundry and packing done before we left for the airport on Sunday and we were at the airport in good time. But then we only got one seat on the Amsterdam – Seattle.

I had been looking forward to finally doing this journey with Erik, not traveling alone, but enjoying company. We had also agreed that as I did all the packing while he was on the bus on Saturday, he would fix everything on Sunday. But now I would be on my own and we wouldn’t see each other in 24 hours. Not an ideal start to our four week trip. And added problem was that we had packed our luggage so that not one was mine and the other his, but mixed. But when I travel alone, I can only get one of the bags and therefore not all my belongings.

Erik had to wait to get transferred to a new plane almost 24 hours later than me, because Delta had overbooked at least five flights that Sunday. But they could not tell him what flight he would be on until after I was on the plane, so we had no chance to plan anything.

So now I have to do the first day in Seattle alone. I need to find the place we are staying, I need to find out how to get to the Uni tomorrow morning, I need to get internet so I can see what I need to do to be prepared for tomorrow. Depending on which bag I get I either need to get a new power cord for my PC and sandals or some underwear and a tshirt. And I need to buy some food and sleep a lot.

Wow. What a weekend. I am very happy that I am staying in Seattle for two weeks, so I get some peace and quiet. It has been a long time since I was at home every evening 14 days in a row…

Camp camp camp

Posted on 12/07/2013 by Ingeborg

So today is the last day of camp here in Stavanger and as always it seems as if it had just started. It is always like that with scout camps. I have had a week with bloody brilliant Autralians, walked pulpit rock (Preikestolen), managed 10 kids from 12 to 16 years for a week and held an activity on democracy training. I have met lots of old friends I haven’t seen since the last national jamboree in 2009 or in Trondheim last year. Some have babies, some have moved, many are in new relationships, but all of them are just the same.

I tink that is one of the things I like the most about scout camp, how you keep meeting your friends and you alway start where you left off the last time. Today is the marked day and the finale with lots of acticities. But we also have to start taking down the camp as we are leaving tomorrow. And as I am flying out very early tomorrow I also have to pack everything Erik and I need washedand take it with me.

Saturday I will be in Oslo doing everything that needs doing before we leave for Seattle and South Korea. I am really looking forward to four weeks on adventure with Erik 🙂

But now I have to get up because the activities start soon and the kids will be back from their overnight hike and we have to be prepared.

Click the liknk to the left to see my camp experience captured by instagram or check out the camp website (www.stavanger2013.no.

Ingeborg Korme

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