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Field work in the snow
I panicked slightly last week, because I thought the snow on my field sites had melted. Last year, I came to late to the field and all the plants were already flowering. (I am studying when plants start to flower). So this year, I wanted to be in time and found the field site under 50cm of snow!
Cutting board
I used the free period to make a cutting board in my grandfathers old workshop. It is still fully equipped with tools and some thick pine boards. Perfect for cutting boards.
Bottles
My mum and aunt have a few hobbies. One is collecting fire wood (nothing strange in Norway). Another hobby is to collect bottles with deposits along the road sides. They are saving the money for some bottles of wine.
Today, I went on a bottle collecting trip with my aunt. We walked about 500m along the main road and found bottles worth 48 NOK. It’s amazing what people throw away along the road. But imagine if we would walk all the thousands of kilometers of roads in the country, how rich would we get! The catch of the day was a coke can with an advertisement from the olympic games 1988 in Seoul.
Conclusions: Norwegians drink Hansa beer and cans don’t decay!
Påskeferie
I am following the Norwegian tradition and went on „Påskeferie“. Mr. K has gone to the other end of the world for two weeks, so not Switzerland this time. But I went up north to Håvoll to visit my aunt, eat lot’s of good food and relax. It feels more like a winter holiday though… But the sun should come out anytime now!
Påskekaffe
I am learning about Norwegian traditions, that I was not aware of before. Easter holiday is very important in Norway. People go to their huts in the mountains for skiing trips. Another tradition for coffee roaster is to produce a special coffee for special occasions such as Easter and Christmas. I bought the „påske kaffe“ from Jacu and I’m very curious how it will taste.
Sugar powder on Ulriken today
This is the view of my new office. I keep moving around in this building, but hope this was the last time…
Ulriken #1
On Saturday I made it to one of „The Seven“. The Seven are seven mountains surrounding Bergen. It is an ongoing discussion, which seven mountains that belong to The Seven, or are there five or nine? And depending on who you ask and where they live, you’ll get different answers. I don’t want to go into this discussion here, but I will hike some of the mountains surrounding Bergen. Also the numbers don’t mean anything other than the order that I’ll hike them;-)
Ulriken is the highest of the mountains (643m). A steep and rocky trail leads up to the top. From the top one can see the open ocean and snowy mountain tops towards the east.
Hard Graft
This post has been waiting for a long time. I have always wanted to write about Hard Graft. I like their simple but very elegant design and combination of materials. One can see the love and thought that has been put into the creation of each piece.
Spring weather in Bergen
The last few days have just been awesome! Blue sky and spring temperatures. I’ve been soking up the sun all weekend!
