Daytrip to Oslo!

Last Sunday Jeanette and I made our way to Oslo to attend a Science Fiction conference at the University of Oslo! (guess whose idea that was). Anyway the con was really not what we expected... it was more of a series of movies with discussion panels, but still it was quite fun... although we only stayed for one movie. It was quite nice to see the UiO campus... I really hope that I can go there next fall! Anyway after we were done on campus we decided to walk to the Vigeland Sculpture park in downtown Oslo and check out some other sites such as the Royal Palace. We had fantastic weather which was great since its been raining pretty much non stop for most of October... so every little ray of sunshine is much apreciated!
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Kings Palace in Oslo

One of the Kings guards

Fall colors!

The Nobel institute, no Chinese dissidents hiding in here!



This sculpture just screams "happy fathers day!"




Nice sunset taken from the train back to Moss

Dublin!

I really really enjoyed my time in Dublin... I honestly don't have a single negative thing to say about it. The city itself is vibrant and exciting (but not to big), the people are really nice (ridiculously so) and although food/drink was a little expensive it was generally fairly good. Even the trip in to town using public transit from the airport was good. I hope to get the chance to make it back to Ireland soon and maybe next time do some exploring in the North!










My Canadianess won out and insisted on Tim Hortons (yes they have it in Ireland, crazy eh?)





Hope you enjoyed the photos!

Western Ireland!

Last week I made my way to Ireland to meet up with my cousin James who is working for a few months in Amsterdam. In all honesty we chose Ireland as a place to meet because the flights there were quite cheap... it ended up being a really was a good decision, Ireland was truly spectacular. I spend most of my time in Dublin (next post) but I did manage to get out of the city and go for a day trip to the Western coast of the tiny island nation. It takes about 4 hours of non-stop driving to get across the country, but its really really worth it. The Cliffs of Moher were the clear highlight of the day, and are really something special... and the weather was perfect to, could not really ask for anything better. The tour was really nice, I usually do not often endorse specific tours... but I guess I will make an exception for this one, their website is http://www.maccooletours.com/
Anyway check back soon for the Dublin pics!

FINALY some decent weather!

Norway is a beautiful country, unfortunately the weather this summer has not been exactly ideal, as a matter of fact it feels like ages since we last had a sunny day. Anyway as luck would have it today was gorgeous and Jeanette and I got invited to join her sister and boyfriend (along with another couple of their friends) to boat along the coast and do some fishing and mushroom collecting. Unfortunately we did not catch any fish, but we did manage to find bucket-loads of mushrooms and a few interesting little critters and plants. Hope you enjoy the photos (And thank you Lone and Bård for the invite).

What a handsome fellow!

These beautiful little flowers seems to be all over the place in the shallow waters along the coast

Clouds looming (it did rain but only as we were pulling up to the dock!)

I know it does not look it, but this is actually a color photograph... no BWGrayskailing

I realize this is a bit random, but remember how I mentioned mushroom picking? well yea. The variety of mushrooms on this one little inlet was crazy... there must have been at least a good 30 distinct species on a 80 square meter stretch... evolution sure is wonderful! Anyway here are some photos of a few of these fungi I found the most interesting.









That's all for now!