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Category: norway

  • noble genealogy

    noble genealogy

    I was at my sisters place over christmas, and was reminded of my grandmother by this oilpainting of her (painted by Ragnhild Thrane in 1904). Her mother and father both had unusual family names, and for a laugh I thought I should see what I could find on that grand internet of ours.

  • crime and punishment

    crime and punishment

    My next-door neighbour is the guy responsible for the bomb in Oslo and the massacre at Utøya. It is a prison. But there is an ironic twist, that he is incarcerated at Ila Landsfengsel. During the occupation of the second world war it was only known as Grini, the first concentration camp in Norway. It…

  • the mysterious case of the dead dog

    the mysterious case of the dead dog

    An insane man have placed poison around Oslo, hidden in little piles of sawdust, to murder dogs. I woke up yesterday, to a flood of warnings on facebook, telling me about this deeply disturbed individual, and that several dogs had already died. Even in my grumpy pre-coffee morning haze, something smelled a little off.

  • oslo mysteries

    oslo mysteries

    If you walk slowly enough, you see little things in Oslo. I came across a couple of mysteries.

  • norway, my stupidly beautiful country

    norway, my stupidly beautiful country

    Norway is stupidly beautiful. Sometimes there is no words left, and laugh is all you can do.