More photos from my cycling trips 🙂 This time it’s Maridalsvannet from above.
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Cycling above Maridalsvannet
Small island in the middle of Maridalsvannet Train tunnel beside Maridalsvannet Me, above Maridalsvannet This was taken on a completely different day and was take at the one of the rivers feeding into Maridalsvannet. -
Norsk settninger – ta en
This is my assignment for my Norwegian language class.
Jeg må skriver setninger for norskkurss. Vi har norskurss med kjempeflott lærer Kate. Jeg snakker bare litt norsk. Jeg prøvde lære norsk rask, men feil meg 🙁 Hvis ser du problemer, informer meg i kommentar. Takk!
Vi lærer grammatikk og staving i norskurss. Jeg lært litt gramattik og staving før.
Forrige helge
Jeg syklet til Fiskevann med kjempflott venn Marte. Marte er lever med vakker jente Ingvild på Movatn. Movatn er norde av Oslo.
Marte og meg i Fiskevann Vi så sopp og fisk. Ingvild koker middag for oss og tre venner. Vi hadde fisk suppe for middag og skjokolade is krem for dessert, nam nam nam 🙂
Etter middag med Ingvild Jeg syklet neste morgen til Oslo via Maridalsvannet.
Maridalsvannet Asterix
Jeg prøvde leser Asterix i hjem i kveld. Jeg tenk jeg vil aldri leser norsk rask! Jeg er veldig sakte leser på norsk. 10 siden = 2 timer, lolz. Jeg prøve mer dette helge.
The response from anyone who actually understands Norwegian on reading this blog post. -
Hello world!
Dang! So I actually made use of this Hello World post for once. This blog is where I intend to file all the incoherent random shit that would bore the daylights out of my regular blog readers. If you want to be entertained, head on hover to my personal blog or even my geek blog if you are so inclined.
I’ve been meaning to launch this site for quite a while and was prompted to do so when I realised I needed somewhere to stash sentences I’m writing for my Norwegian course. I figured I’m better of posting them publicly so that people can slam my incoherent Norwegian babbling and fix all the errors for me before sending them off to my teacher for marking, hehe 🙂 It’ll also make sure I store this stuff for prosperities sake. If by some miracle I do actually learn how to speak Norwegian, then it could be amusing to look back in a few years time and see how just far I have come. It may even be useful for similarly language deprived n00bs to gauge how long it’ll take them to go from incoherent babble to “mez speaks da Norwegain gud” standard.
Hmmm, enough ranting. Now to go write some Norwegian.
Oh, and there will of course be other stuff on here too. The language lessons just prompted me to do it sooner rather than later. I’m often needing somewhere to stick stuff online and usually resort to things like pastebin instead, but will likely use this site for a lot of that stuff from now on instead.
Apparently a picture paints a thousand words, so here is one of me in a penguin outfit …
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Trollvann
I went to Trollvann, a beautiful little lake in the hills above Oslo. The place was swarming with families out enjoying the beautiful Norwegian summer.
Trollvann. Perfect spot for a summers day out. -
Movatn with Ingvild and Marte
The lovely Ingvild and Marte invited me to stay at their awesome little cottage in the woods. It overlooks a beautiful little lake called Movatn. The weather gods were angry that evening, but we were nice and cosy and downed some yummy seafood chowder followed by a healthy dose of ice cream and chocolate sauce 🙂
Chilling out with Ingvild 
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Linderudkollen hoppsenter
Whilst cycling on the weekend I stumbled across a well known Norwegian past-time … ski jumping. These crazy Norwegian nutcases launch themselves off stupidly steep ramps whilst on skis. Apparently doing it in the winter is not enough, and so some of the craziest ones resort to doing it on an even crazier plastic hill during the summer months.
Here is the result …
The jumper did get up. Nothing more than damaged pride.
The photos were taken at Linderudkollen hoppsenter near Oslo, Norway.
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Kringlevann
Another day, another cycling trip. This time I headed north east to Kringlevann on advice from my friends Marte and Ingvild. It turns out they have great advice, as after a pleasant trip uphill I was greeted by a beautiful little lake nestled in the woods above Oslo city.
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Oslo at 1:15am
Some of my friends in New Zealand seemed fascinated that it could still be light outside in Oslo during the wee hours of the morning, so I took this photo at 1:15am during the middle of July to demonstrate how bright it gets.
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Cycle touring in/near Oslo
It seems people are fascinated about where I end up on my weekends, so here are some snaps from a couple of weeks ago. I ended up somewhat lost during a cycling trip as I forgot my phone so had no Google maps, I had an awful map which barely showed any detail and I forgot my compass to boot, so kept losing my bearings. I eventually ended up sitting beside an awesome lake called Nøklevannet; I didn’t take any photos whilst there because there were girls bouncing around in bikini’s everywhere and so I didn’t want to look like the creepy guy taking photos of them (plus I was too busy staring at boobs to take photos). It ended up being a 40 km round trip, including lots of detours attempting to find something interesting. Next time I will take a good map, compass, phone and figure out where the heck I’m going first 🙂
Oslo sure does get some beautiful weather despite what the locals may say. 
Ducks chilling out beside Luktvannet 
I accidentally stumbled across this small lake called Skraperudtjem during my travels. There are beautiful little lakes like this hidden all over the area. 
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Samsung Galaxy S3
It seems that when you go walking in a torrential downpour, you should not use Google Maps extensively. I tried that recently and promptly destroyed my trusty Huawei IDEOS X5 phone. Out with the old and in with the new though! I now have a Samsung Galaxy S3 and decided to do a quick photo quality comparison by taking the following photos with my phone, then with my Canon G12 compact camera whilst out cycling on a sunny day in Oslo. The G12 should give a much better quality photo in theory. You be the judge on the final product though …
Maridalsvannet from Samsung Galaxy S3 
Maridalsvannet from Canon G12 
River from Samsung Galaxy S3 
River from Canon G12 I used the “P” setting on the G12 and left the Samsung Galaxy S3 to do it’s thing. I didn’t manage to get the zoom levels and level accurately aligned between the two, so there has been a little cropping to make the images match up.
