Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods

Late night sun in the greenhouse

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09.30pm

 

 

 

Opera Night

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Friday Night was the night for our babysitting, Saturday night was our night off, and we had tickets for the opera. Not Swan Lake (which is a ballet by the way) as you might be led to believe from this picture, lol, but Georges Bizet Carmen. May be to most well known by all operas.

The National Opera and Ballet in Oslo is beautiful, situated down by the Oslo fjord. Terje and I have been to one opera performance here before, years ago, so coming here again was a very special treat for us.

We started with dinner in the opera restaurant, and then walking right into the concert hall and three hours with dramatic music, love and death.

With little Vida to the Royal Castle

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Our little princess walking though the rainbow, into the Princess Ingrid Alexandra Sculpture Park.

It took us about 20 minutes to walk from our AirB&B down to the Royal Castle and its surrounding park. Oslo has had a problem with droughts this spring, with prohibitions concerning watering gardens and parks. But, lucky for us, and for everybody else I guess, rain came a few days ago. Still no water in the fountains around the city, but the parks are green and flowering.

Here is a huge rhododendron in front of a statue of Camilla Collett, an early female Norwegian author.

Look at the beauty of this rhododendron. I wish I had one in our garden, but as we live further up north I doubt it would give much flowers there.

The first image in this post was from Princess Ingrid Alexandra's Sculpture Garden. The rest from The Queens Garden, just behind the castle.

 

From the Food Court

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A few years ago Oslo Food Court opened. I have wanted to go there ever since I first heard about it, and this weekend we are lucky to stay in an AirB&B just about 500 meters from the court. Last night I walked there with my daughter in law to buy a take away dinner from the four of us. Tonight our son and daughter in law are attending a wedding and we are babysitting our granddaughter Vida. We have been out for a long walk with her, and on our way home we again stopped at the food court.

Food is not cheap there, and if we had lived close bay it would be terrible for our finances. But two nights in a row, well, we can afford that.

Bread, olives, different types of cheese, salami and ham.......

.......and after Vida had gone to sleep we really had a feast.

 

A few days in Oslo

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We are in Oslo for a few days together with our son Øystein, his wife to be (in a month) Silje, and their little adorable Vida, our granddaughter. Øystein and Silje are going to a wedding tomorrow, so we are here mainly to babysit Vida, but also find time in between for long walks, coffee and exploring more of the city.

After we arrived today Terje and I had a long hike, or rather walk. I love hiking in nature, but I also love urban hikes walks where you can stop for lunch, for coffee, for selfies, or just to sit down and watch life.

We stay in a beautiful AirB&B flat, not far from Oslo's great food court. My daughter in law and I walked over there this afternoon to buy dinner for all of us, ending up with dishes from all over the world.

The weeding is tomorrow night, which means that Terje and I will be homebound with Vida. I think I will go back to the food court for cheese, salamis and ham, olives and a million other goodies, making us a tapas night.

 

New artists in Stockholm

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I had the best intentions to blog every day from Stockholm, I really had. But then there were so much to explore, we actually ending up leaving the hotel right after breakfast, not coming back till late night, diving into bed, exhausted. The sun was shining, spring was in the air, Stockholm is beautiful, we walked miles and miles every day and I did not want to miss one minute.

One day we took the tube and then a tram out to Lidingö to visit Millesgården Museum, an amazing place which originally was the home of the artists Carl and Olga Milles. A sculpture park, an art gallery, a unique collection of antiques and art both outdoors and indoors.

The garden, the sculpture park, the artists´home was great, I could walk there for hours, but we were also lucky that the art gallery had a display of photographs by Madame Dra, Dora Kallmus (1881-1963) She had a studio in Vienna and later in Paris and being a pioner female artist photographed a vide range of subjects and made her studio into a fashionable meeting place. When I posted the above photo, of Joséphine Baker, on Facebook it was deleted, due to nudity :-)

A portrait of Collette, a French writer. I was introduced to her through one of Frances Mayes´books.

And here is.......
.......well, who is this?

 

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I have made a video with the title Postcards from Stockholm.
Enjoy!

 

 

Postcards from Stockholm

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A video from the daffodil fields

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Terje and I are in Stockholm, Sweden for a few days.
I plan to share with you some post from our trip, eventually, and while you wait, why not enjoy the video I made from our trip to the daffodil fields :-) The video is in Norwegian, but there are some lovely footage from the fields in the beginning, and then later on a long sequence from the fields and also from our cabin during Easter.