thank you all - again. i will be sure to pack my combat boots for all the rain, which is something i would not have thought of if you hadn't told me. i was imagining sunshine over the fjords, but it seems that it will not be the case. 
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PaganThunder
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if you go in Autumn you'll get nothin but rain and slate! and winter you'll geta lot of snow, but my time in the summer there (which was only a few weeks before autumn hit) was awsome, stayed light til 11pm at night, at that was at the end of the summer! I wentfor a trip to Flam, and to the Fjords down that way during the last weeks of summer, fucking amazing!
Cant wait to head back over there!
Cant wait to head back over there!
Greetings from Silly Town, Norway!
I am loving this place. Everyone actually believes they live in a warm climate, even if it is barely 15 degrees celsius in the warmest moments of the day. So they all sit outside and drink liters of beer, with the predictable result that everyone is drunk.
Having arrived on a Sunday and having promptly discovered that today is a bank holiday, I found out that if you are not close to a bar there is nobody at all in the streets. Also, absolutely everything is closed except for bars, and even on weekdays everything closes down around 4 or 5 pm.
Here in Bergen, they do have a haven from the 14th century which is a World Heritage Site, but it has been reconstructed in such a cutesy way that it lacks credibility. The powerful viking fishers are now evoked in an atmosphere of artificial lakes and flowery gardens. Surrounded by bars, obviously.
I am now sitting in a nice locale featuring snooker halls, table football, computers, and amazingly good music. When I came in I heard Rise Against and for some reason I believed I had my MP3 player on. Then a Faith No More song came and I thought that I do not have that particular song in my player so it was really strange.
But the best thing of them all is that I finally can do this without particular effort:
Øøøøøøøøøh! Åååååååååh! And Æææ even!
I am loving this place. Everyone actually believes they live in a warm climate, even if it is barely 15 degrees celsius in the warmest moments of the day. So they all sit outside and drink liters of beer, with the predictable result that everyone is drunk.
Having arrived on a Sunday and having promptly discovered that today is a bank holiday, I found out that if you are not close to a bar there is nobody at all in the streets. Also, absolutely everything is closed except for bars, and even on weekdays everything closes down around 4 or 5 pm.
Here in Bergen, they do have a haven from the 14th century which is a World Heritage Site, but it has been reconstructed in such a cutesy way that it lacks credibility. The powerful viking fishers are now evoked in an atmosphere of artificial lakes and flowery gardens. Surrounded by bars, obviously.
I am now sitting in a nice locale featuring snooker halls, table football, computers, and amazingly good music. When I came in I heard Rise Against and for some reason I believed I had my MP3 player on. Then a Faith No More song came and I thought that I do not have that particular song in my player so it was really strange.
But the best thing of them all is that I finally can do this without particular effort:
Øøøøøøøøøh! Åååååååååh! And Æææ even!
afz902k
In Currents of Cobalt...
I added those keys to my keyboard ages ago
So, now that you're in Bergen, is it true that "Als In Bergen, bergen bergen bergen bergen bergen, bergen bergen bergen bergen bergen."? (Dutch, roughly meaning: "If in Bergen, heaps of mountains salvage heaps of mountains, then heaps of mountains salvage heaps of mountains".)
So, now that you're in Bergen, is it true that "Als In Bergen, bergen bergen bergen bergen bergen, bergen bergen bergen bergen bergen."? (Dutch, roughly meaning: "If in Bergen, heaps of mountains salvage heaps of mountains, then heaps of mountains salvage heaps of mountains".)
well, there are a number of hills that the locals call 'mountains', the tallest standing at some 682m, which sounds a bit small for a mountain IMO... but i also found out that 'fjell' means 'hill', casting light on the age-old 'oppi fjellet' mystery (someone i used to know once translated that as 'opium fields').
afz902k
In Currents of Cobalt...
Then it is false. If the correlation is right, then heaps of mountains don't salvage heaps of mountains anywhere in the universe, for in bergen there are only a number of hills.
@hyena: How's that cold evolving? Feeling better already?
@hyena: How's that cold evolving? Feeling better already?
@afz: thanks for asking, unfortunately the answer is no - degenerated into a full-blown tonsil infection, i feel quite horrible... and i am under the impression that i also got some form of food poisoning. hooray!
afz902k
In Currents of Cobalt...
Near arctic-summer cold is taking its toll, I presume. And about the food poisoning, I hope it is only an impression of yours.
Going back to the tonsil infection matter, I think an effort on my part to try and tell you what to do about it would be mostly worthless, since you are more experienced than me anyway. However, I can recommend you some home remedies that will probably at least ease your situation a little, and these are my suggestions:
-Ginger tea. (This one actually helps when you've got a sore throat)
-Warm (not Hot) milk sweetened with honey (It can be put to boil for some time, but don't drink it right away if you do), add just a few drips of lemon to turn it into an actual brewing with unknown qualities. You can also add turmeric powder (provided you can find it) and pepper powder to this milky brewing, should you do the latter, use very very small quantities.
Going back to the tonsil infection matter, I think an effort on my part to try and tell you what to do about it would be mostly worthless, since you are more experienced than me anyway. However, I can recommend you some home remedies that will probably at least ease your situation a little, and these are my suggestions:
-Ginger tea. (This one actually helps when you've got a sore throat)
-Warm (not Hot) milk sweetened with honey (It can be put to boil for some time, but don't drink it right away if you do), add just a few drips of lemon to turn it into an actual brewing with unknown qualities. You can also add turmeric powder (provided you can find it) and pepper powder to this milky brewing, should you do the latter, use very very small quantities.
@afz: thanks. actually, i'm taking antibiotics, because the whole thing looked like it was going to be quite bad, and i cannot afford to pass out in the middle of the street or something.
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