It was unusually bright this morning. I understood why, when I looked out of the window: it had been snowing. The polar wind brought winter back to Bergen. I am supposed to go to a grill party tonight… no wonder I have to play around in the snow first!
Picture Amy Eycott.
The last three of days I have gotten a taste of spring. I’ve travelled to Parma to visit Nicola, who spent the last summer in Norway helping me with my field work. Nicola came to Bergen to collected data for his master thesis, which he is analysing at the moment. So I went to Parma to discuss his results. Parma is just 6 hours with the train form Zürich.
I stayed in a B&B in the middle of the city. When I arrived I was surprised to find an Italian and Norwegian flag in the room. What a coincidence I thought. But when the day after the Norwegian flag was exchanged by a Swiss flag, I figured that the lady probably has all the flags in the world. I told her that I come from Norway, but travelled with my Swiss passport…
Parma is a beautiful city, just small enough that you can walk around town and see everything in a couple of hours. Nonetheless it is a lively city with a hundred churches and a bar or cafe at every corner. A couple of theatres, castles and is of course famous for it’s ham and chees. A local wine that is drunk daily is called Lumbresco. It’s sparkling and you drink it cold. And it’s not unusual to drink a bottle of it for lunch (did you hear that Norway?). Espresso is simply called café and vegetarian food consists basically of three types of Tortelli: with pumpkin, with ricotta and spinach or with potato and mushrooms. But I liked it anyway.
Thank you, Nicola, Giada and Alessandro for your hospitality and for having me in Parma!
The last couple of month we have tried to reduce our belongings. The reason is Mr. K is moving to a circus wagon and I live in Norway. We have tried to sell and give away most of it, but finally we had to throw away things, that are damaged or have no value. It’s astonishing how much things we collect.
Now the flat is empty and we my skateboard carrier can start!
The circus wagon has been moved to a new place and we have a beautiful view, pastures and cows! Everything inside has been removed and Mr. K has started to put isolation on the wall. We picked up wood and a plastic foil to prevent the wagon to get moist.
And these days we have started moving out of the flat. We will be houseless in a couple of days. But we have a lot of people who have offered us a bed and there is also Sophia, the VW bus.
What you find when you move…
Next week, I will go to Kristiansand to film the next statistic videos. I have briefly talked about this before. Until the end of the week we have to finish writing the scripts, making slides and learning the script. So, we are wokring very hard to get it done.
The videos are about explaining distributions and we (Joachim) have produced a couple of nice animations to show that. Basically, the animations loop through (this is R language) all sorts of things: ylim, xlim, colours, length,… and it drives me crazy. Have a look yourself.
More analoge pictures from our trip to Tenerife last year in January. One day we went to „el Teide“.
