As the decorations come down around town.
Giant globe in middle of town right now.
Thanks to everyone who sent best wishes, cards, large and small presents, turned up for a surprise party, called 5 days after the event, or otherwise helped me out on the way to this old age.
Some photos from the surprise party…
Down in Spain for a great long weekend with temperatures >25 and lots of sunshine.
… which was bargain of the week in IKEA.
Special trick of eating the whole apple.
A quick film of Aksel riding his car around at the weekend having great fun.
We were in Scotland- the west coast, Kintyre for a few days and then over to Edinburgh for Aksel’s birthday and meeting up with his new cousin Ethan.
Ok pros and cons of a trip to Norway in July:
Pros
- Norway is powered by nature – it’s beautiful scenery whenever you go.
- It is not very busy – we were the only people on one bus. Even the main road from Oslo to Bergen is a quiet narrow road with few cars on it.
- Fruit being sold at road-side stalls is only bettered by the wild strawberries and raspberries on the mountains.
- All the oil money has been spent on good roads and tunnels.
- Lots of very friendly people helping you out and glad to have you visiting.
- Sørlandschips
Cons
- Norway is powered by nature – this basically means it rains all the time.
- The words ‘Norwegian’ and ‘cuisine’ are used for the first time together in this sentence, any country that devotes 50% of the freezer space in a supermarket to frozen pizza is really struggling.
- No oil money was spent on tourist information: the offices are staffed by disinterested and unhelpful student workers (one sold us a 50 year old map!) and the leaflets were generally incomprehensible.
Anyway enough grumpy old man stuff… here’s the photos…
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- Impromptu scooting in the middle of town
- Aksel’s first experience of pink elephants
- Tuscany 2010
- Aksel’s yogurt portraits
- Trip to London…
- Aksel playing a few weeks ago…
- Nick and Michelle’s wedding
- Skiing 2010… Trysil
- Cold and children
- Christmas and New Year 2009
- Dan Carroll: good luck mate
- Ricardo: i like the point about the freezer space
- Knut: I can see you caught the essence of Norway. Permanently wrapped Aksel in his raincoat, lots of mountains and old stuff, many hills to climb (coming do