Saturday 10 August 2013

Norway

Here some pictures from Norway where I lived for a few years. More pics from earlier visit Here.

Cooking up some food while trekking the Kungsleden, a national trail in the arctic north of Sweden.

Reindeer on the skyline near Storsylen, a mountain on Norwegian border with Sweden.

Views near Storsylen...


Arctic Cotton Grass




More reindeer.



A Sami reindeer herdsman on a trialsbike.


Near Storsylen.



Took this photo where I lived at Byåsen when Jonas and Pauline came to visit.

Jonas and Pauline on the Old Town Bridge in Trondheim.


View over Trondheim.

The Kristiansten Fortress in Trondheim.

Moonlight over Trondheimsfjord with Munkolmen Island.

Strong Norwegian Øl.

Outside my door in Byåsen after a heavy fall of snow.








This house was owned by an English sister called Barbera, I shared the basement apartement with two other brothers.


This is the Røros Martnan, a winter market held every year in Røros up in the mountains.







Detail from a newly built log house in Røros, the timbers look like they have been hand hewn and have been chinked with moss.




Detain from an old log cabin in Røros, the roof is of turf with birch bark underneath.





Photo taken on the Fast Ferry from Trondheim to Kristiansund, Stevie and I were going to visit the Eidesen family in Ottersbo, Ørland where I lived for seven months before moving to Trondheim.


Moonlit veiws over Tronheimsfjord from the Eidesens house.




Gunner and Ellen Eidesen.

Trondheim English Congregation.

Oil painting in the entrance of the Kingdom Hall, the artist is a brother.


A small Kindom Hall in Handsjö, Sweden


Stevie with Jonas and his daughter, Vega. Photo taken close to Östersund when we visited Jonas and Pauline.


Östersund Kingdom Hall.


On the way to Handsjö.

View over Östersund.
Frösö Rune Stone, near
Östersund. The runic inscription declares that the Christian religion was brought to Jämtland by Östman Gudfastsson.