Landschaftspark is a park in Duisburg, Deutschland designed to show off the former industrial nature of the area. I spent a pleasant afternoon there with Steffi. There are some amazing steel structures to walk around. I recommend checking it out if you are ever in the area.
I had the privilege of attending my lovely friends Marte and Ingvild’s wedding last weekend. The beautiful brides were married just north of Oslo.
My friend Leah had her birthday recently. She told everyone she didn’t want a birthday present, so I had a birthday greeting made for her instead 🙂
My claim to fame for the day … Kim Dot Com is following me on Twitter …
Steffi and I went to the Duisburg city hall. Apparently time has stood still there, as they have a Paternoster lift still in use in the building! Paternoster lifts consist of a series of open compartments that move without stopping. To get on and off, you need to jump on very quickly to avoid getting squished! I suspect this would not pass health and safety regulations in most countries.
Apparently I don’t post enough pictures of myself, so here’s a couple of random ones which don’t fit into any other posts 🙂
Thanks to Nora for the photos 🙂
I’ve always had a fascination with how things worked in the Soviet Union. The massive attempts of economies of scale attempted by the Soviet Union are something rarely seen in the western world. I recently had the privilege of seeing inside an old school stereotypical Soviet era apartment block in Cluj-Napoca. There wasn’t much to see beyond a drab interior stairwell and an equally uninteresting building front. It did made me feel a little like being inside the old Soviet buildings in the Pripyat sections of “Call of Duty 4” though.
Unlike their western counterparts, the Soviets had less need to impress with their architectural skills and so this style of housing made a lot of sense. Cheap, well built accommodation which will last. Of course, the interior can be as nice as you want to make it,
I am now famous in the area of “plane landing in dodgy places photography”. The following snapshots are from a DVD called “Bush Flying Basics“, an instructional video for teaching pilots how to land in places where they probably shouldn’t be trying. They used a photo from here on my blog of Poolburn reservoir as an example of smooth ice you can land on. If you happen to have the DVD, you can see it at the 28 mins and 50 second mark 🙂
Some photos of the beautiful Skjærsjøen lake near Oslo, Norway. I took these whilst on a cycling tour with Live, Ingvild and Nora.
