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The worlds most beautiful train ride

At the moment I am riding what is supposed to be the most beautiful train ride in the world (according to Visitnorway.com and they are probably not the most objective viewer) but it is for sure beautiful. It’s not like any other train ride I have experienced so far! Great experience!
This is the train between [...]

Between Odda and Ullensvang

I just wanted to share a video of the souroundings of Odda. I really do get the sound of music feeling out of it!

Can you get used to something this beautiful?

The first thing crossing my mind when I came here to Odda, Norway was – how can a place possibly be that beautiful?! Well I have been to a lot of beautiful places before, but there are few of them competing with Odda in terms of unrealistic, sound-of-music-like, stunning beautiful.
When thinking about it a [...]

Seagull against Statue

In odda there is an old factory where they melted minerals, and it was closed in 2003. However there’s a statue reminding of those times on the main street and there’s a continuous “fight” between the statue and the seagulls hanging out on the statue.

Celebrating 17th of May in Odda and Ullensvang

So the 17th of may is the national day of norway, as I am sure you do know! I have never before been in Norway to see the celebrations, so it was a nice day of arrival! There were two parades in Odda. One in the morning and one in the afternoon, and that seemed [...]

Rödruss in Oslo

When we stopped on the way to Odda, Where I am now, we encountered this interesting crowd. It turns out that in Norway all the students graduating throw a month long party which is called Rödruss.
What happens is we are sitting in our car drinking coffe, eating buns, and feeling more or less retired watching [...]

Borderline

Just wanted to tell that we just crossed the border from Sweden to Norway, and the mobile broadband connection seems to work as a charm!

Where are Pauline at? She was sleeping like a baby in the car, and when we told her to come out and stretch her legs a bit, her only response was: [...]