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Midsummer and St. Hans with Hans-Erik Husby as Cornelis in Oslo
Summer Solstice, St John’s or St. Hans or St Mark’s Eve, Cornelis Vreeswijk and Jesus Christ Superstar in a long Norwegian summer night, is a perfect combination for a midsummer celebration. In Oslo (60° North) we have 19 hours daylight and placed as close to the Arctic Circle, it doesn’t actually get dark at all. [...]
Outdoor Recreation in Norway Winter Wonderland
Norwegians love outdoor life associated with voluntary physical activity or use of leisure time outdoors in nature. With leisure means the air outside, and you should not be confused with English free or clean air, or even free of contamination. However, that’s what you get and it’s of course an important part of the recreational [...]
OsloBG Winter Reunion at Dubliner Folk Pub in Norway
Like rings in the water, The Oslo Blog Gathering has connected people and left its traces in the form of friendship. OsloBG took place in August 2010 where friends in the Blogsphere from all over the world could meet each other in person and experience some of the local attractions, explore the city and learn [...]
Happy New Year from Norway Winter Wonderland
Its Happy New Year greetings time again, to open a new book with blank pages and put my own words on them. The book – or in my case blog – is called “Opportunity” and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. I could write about New Year’s Resolutions, New Year Greeting Cards, New Year’s [...]
OsloBG at Oscarsborg Fortress and Oslo Medieval Park
The Oslo Blog Gathering exploring Norway and our capital’s architecture, culture, traditions and history – was a thrill and an adventure for about 30 Social Media active participants from all over the world. Some had been to blog meetings before, while other had only met friends in Blogsphere so far. One thing is for sure [...]
Scandinavian Samba at MaRioStad Carnival in Sweden
Carnival in Mariestad Sweden gives a Scandinavian taste of Samba and Rio de Janeiro: parades with scantily clad beautiful “Brazilian” women and fantastic costumes. Most customs and celebrations are actually of pre-Christian origin; Fertility and the budding spring were celebrated. The first celebration may have taken place around 600 BC and a trace of the [...]
DianeCA playing Digital beauty with brains
Connecting to Social Media and the rest of the digital world with real time news, online map navigation, worldwide free calls and net meeting as well as calendar, tasks and notes management is now reality. To an always online gadget geek like me, it’s both a thrill and professionally a must. So when all this [...]
Music and Dance in Bunad at Folk Museum in Norway
Folk Music and Dance in Bunad at The Norwegian Museum of Cultural History – The Folk Museum – was on the program. In beautiful warm summer weather, my wife DianeCA and I had another quality time and as always we love to share with. I’ll get back to this great, Open Air Museum later – [...]
The Magic of extreme cold and snow at Oslo Fjord
The beauty of nature becomes clear on a sunny winter day. In Oslo, Norway, we’ve had the loveliest weather with fresh, crisp air (-15C to -25C = 5F to -13F) for the last week. With quite a bit of snow as well, the atmosphere and the lightening calls for a photo hunt or two. So [...]
Seafood and Fireworks for a Happy New Year from Norway
Celebrating the New Years Eve in Scandinavia is traditionally a blast of a feast. At the darkest and often the coldest time of the year these sets the scene for enthusiasm and cheer and welcome a new year.
Preparing the evening’s celebration starts days before and the most exciting is to buy the fireworks. Shooting up [...]
Oktoberfest party in Oslo Norway
Oktoberfest is kind of a new tradition in Norway - another proof of that the world becomes smaller and that habits and cultural occasions are adapted. Well, don’t misunderstand: even from the Viking period, Norwegians have celebrated harvest and made beer from grain and aquavit from potatoes. Great feasts were held to celebrate the harvest, [...]
The Knight Templar Arn in Medieval World
Medieval World is a theme park of the Middle Ages, build around the Holy Lands of Templar Arn, situated at Götene in Sweden. In full scale it takes you directly into the medieval adventures and Arn’s daily life. After the recordings of the Arn films (The Knight Templar), the Municipality bought the scenes for a [...]
