Pictures from the beautiful landscape of Norway.
This photo is from Bryggen in Bergen in February 2018. The building pictured is from 1912/1913, and is named after the Hanseatic/German office for trading that was located in the area in the 1400s.
The building was built in 1476, after a fire removed the previous buildings. A fire in 1702 made a second rebuilding in 1711 necessary, and final rebuilt was in 1912-1913. There has also been some remodeling since, according to the Local city archive (in Norwegian).
This is one of the first pictures I took when I moved to Kristiansand in August 2014. I was walking around, trying to get to know the area around the University, and I came across Gimle Gård (Gimle estate). An area with a cultural museum surrounded by a house park/botanical garden. In August, there was a lot of green bushes and colorful plants growing, and if you’re staying in Kristiansand for a while, it’s worth a visit.
This picture is from January 2018, when I was walking past the Port Authority in Stavanger. The painting is pretty cool, and one of many street art paintings in Stavanger.
In addition, the port authority apparently has a gift shop.
In early February 2018, I walked past this statue of Ole Bull in Bergen. If you do not know who Ole Bull was, he was a Norwegian violinist and composer that was born in Bergen in the early 1800s. He visited USA a lot, and there are multiple buildings and areas memorializing him there, as well as in Bergen.
When the weather is nice in Norway, we all “flee” to the nearest nice place to enjoy the sun. And that includes beaches, parks, cabins, outdoor-bars and more – because everyone enjoys it differently.
The main reason we all go outside when the weather is nice, is that we normally don’t have that much nice weather, and grow up with the mindset that we need to enjoy it while the weather is nice.
This picture is from Kristiansand in September 2016, when I lived a short walk away from this beach, and got to enjoy the view whenever the weather was enjoyable.
One of my favorite things to do if I’m early to meet someone, or just have extra time when I’m in my hometown, is to wander places that are out of my “normal ways”. I’m a creature of habit, and will often pick the same way to walk places again and again. But, even in your hometown, there can be places or sculptures you haven’t really seen before.
That was my feeling when I stopped by this sculpture-head of Henrik Steffens in mid-May 2018. I was early to meet someone, and suddenly registered a head. He was born in Stavanger, but left the city at fourteen to go to Denmark (and later to Germany). He became a professor in philosophy, and worked at many different universities over the years.
He has a wikipedia-page in many languages, if you feel like looking up more about the man.
17th of May is the day we celebrate the Norwegian constitution that was signed in 1814, and we celebrate this with having parades with children. The parades and other activities were somewhat limited during the last two years, so this year will make a big comeback in gathering a lot of people.
To all Norwegians or others celebrating the day in Norway – Gratulerer med dagen!
And to everyone else – Happy Tuesday!
This picture was taken in July 2013, and I remember thinking that it was an amusing way to portray the connection to airplanes with having him on an airplane-wing.
The building is part of the ferry terminal in Kristiansand, for the ferries going over to Denmark. This picture is from April 2016, and the text on the wall says “Welcome to Kristiansand, No. 1 holiday resort in Norway”. Kristiansand is known in Norway as having great weather in the summer, easy ferry connections to Denmark, the amusement park “Dyreparken” and a lot of other typical summer holiday things for Norwegians. The sign is written in Norwegian, English and German, as there are typically a lot of Germans visiting Norway as well.
I was recently back at the terminal, and forgot to see if the sign was still there, but I have no reason to believe that the sign has been removed.
This is from Karl Johan in early February 2014. The closest building on the left is Stortinget, the home of the Norwegian Parliament, and the building at the end of the road is the Royal Palace. As Oslo is not a very large city, compared to many capitals around the world, a lot of important buildings are within relatively short walking distance.
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