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Escape to Parma
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!
Analog pictures – El Teide
More analoge pictures from our trip to Tenerife last year in January. One day we went to „el Teide“.
3 movies tips about „a way“
I wanted to blog this for a while because it’s very funny. Here are 3 movies to check out with similar titles. All of them are about „a way“. It can be a road, an escape or growing up. Enjoy!
The way (2012)
A father mourns for his dead son while traveling the „El camino de Santiago“.
The way back (2010)
Crossing Asia on foot after escaping a prison in Siberia.
The way way back (2013)
Coming of age movie: spending the holidays working in a water park.
Harvest – a magazine about nature
Harvest is a quality nett magazine (in Norwegian) about nature and our behavour towards nature, because „Nature does not need us but we are nothing without it„. The makers also see it as a bonfire where stories are told. And the stories are diverse. Adventures, expeditions, philosophy and science. See for yourself!
Good bye Switzerland…
My new home
This – an old circus carage – will be my new home in Switzerland! A tiny house is Mr. K.’s new project and he is moving out of our loft in a couple of weeks. Besides building a house (even if it is a tiny one) on his own, the idea is to experiance how much do we need? How many things do we own and never use? How much space do we really need? And does a simple life work for me?
The space is limited and we are reducing our belongings. And this is fun and a relief! I have so many things I never use and don’t really want to have and it is a good feeling to give them away. We are not throwing away everything, but trying to give them to people who like them or need them.
All of this is a bit scary but also fun and I am excited how it will turn out. You can follow the project here (only in German).
To do in 2016 #1
Watch a sunset with a friend
Lanzarote
We have moved on to Lanzarote. This island is even more sparse and covered with huge lava fields. I am fascinated about the colours and plants that mange to grow under these conditions. There is approximatly 100mm of rain a year and the temperature never goes below 20°C.
Analog photography
I have my analog Zeiss Ikon Contraflex camera with me on Fuerteventura. Analog photography is fun and yes, it’s also very hip. But it reminds me of the days when everything was analog, I like the sound the camera makes when you take a picture and the fact that you cannot see the picture emediatly. It takes a couple of weeks before the developed film comes back, which is the best part of it. But I still find myself looking at the back of the camera and wondering why I cannot see the picture…
