My life in Bergen, a photoblog: 2008

30 December, 2008

Exploring our apartment building

We are living i a apartment building, almost in the middle of Bergen. It's a 6 floor building with 18 apartments and at the attic it's allot of storage-room and a washing room.

Her is a picture from the stare case, with a nice railing in wrought iron and wood.

As i told you we also have a washing room in the addict, and this is where we select washing day and time.

Some signal lamp, that i haven't figure out how working yet...

Some old drying fan, it's out of order and we have dryer for the cloth now

7 floor down

that's todays posting, all the pictures are taken with my mobile phone and the quality is not the best. Maybe next time, i find some thing else to shoot..

At the end.

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26 December, 2008

Posting in between..

In between ?, yes we are. Christmas is over and New year is coming.

It has been a while since last posting, and the only excuse i can think of is.. Work, work and no daylight after work.

I hope you all had a merry Christmas and that all your wishes come trough. Our Christmas celebration went very well, for the ones who don't know already . We gathers to eat and open our packages in late afternoon, the 24 of December.

No white Christmas in Bergen, Something has happened. When i was a kid, we had snow for weeks at this time of year.

In the morning (09:40) the 24 of December, Still dark and not so fun to shoot pictures.

This last one is taken in the afternoon (16:10) 26 of December, yes it's dark. The shutter was set for 1 sec..

At the end.

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13 December, 2008

Pictureposting from Bergen, action in the neighborhood.

Some days ago, the street was filled up with firetrucks and other rescue cars,
in the building across the street the fire alarm was going of.

The fire people and police could not make any contact with the person living there. they tried to ring the door but nobody answered.

The solution was to use the lift truck and knock the windows. It actually helped, the person who lives there opened the windows and waved to the fire brigade..

They packed up their stuff and left .

The reason for the alarm, dry coking... Allot of smoke but no fire.

At the end.

Norwegian news in English

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05 December, 2008

Blogging for my brother

Hi there.
I'm the brother of bskaad. I'm going try to help my brother with the posting.
It,s not much to sa about me, I'm 44 years old, have to kids, and live in the eastern part of Bergen. My job is in Norgesgruppen, wholesale for a dosen of stores i Norway.

I know that my brother is posting some of his picture in this blog, so I,m gonna do that to.
This is from a hikingtour i had in the beutifull mountain sorrunding Bergen city.

This is halfway to the top of Ulriken

Wiev from the top towards southern part of Bergen

Bergen. In the upper part of the picture is Askøy and Sotra

This is the stadium for SK Brann

This is sunsetwiev from Fløen

And as always, some norwegian news in English

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02 December, 2008

My brother the Co author...

I have allot to do, and my time for posting is getting to low..

The solution i hope, is that i invited my brother as a author too. Maybe the two of us together can keep this photoblog alive.

He is working different shifts and has the joy of daylight, while I'm experience dark when leaving home in the morning and the same in the afternoon. after work.

winter in city

same place in late summer

Our lttle princes in her carriage a cold and rainy day.

Hope to see you all soon.

Photo & Text Copyright 2008 bskaad (my.life.in.bergen@gmail.com). All rights reserved, including reproduction or republishing

22 November, 2008

Bergen panorama

Not mutch to say today.
Enjoy the panorama picture. Click on it, if you want large picture.

21 November, 2008

Winter storm in Bergen

Snow, snow and more snow

This 3 pictures are taken in my neighborhood

As you can see, the weather is not good

To day i had to take the bus, and i want to blame the snow..
Maybe should blame my self for not putting on the winter tire, but i choose to blame the snow. :-)

Photo & Text Copyright 2008 bskaad (my.life.in.bergen@gmail.com). All rights reserved, including reproduction or republishing

20 November, 2008

Back from Oslo

I'm back.
This was one of the most interesting and best curs I've done in a long time.

I partly promised some pictures, but the biggest problem is the short time of daylight in wintertime. We spend all day in classroom and when the day was over and we where leaving, it was pitch dark and not the best opportunity to take any photos.

But some i manage to take.

This one is from the flight to Oslo, and shows the Hardangervidden

This next one i in Oslo and show the Aker Brygge 08:30 in the morning

And at the end the city hall in Oslo, also pictured in the morning

15 November, 2008

A new change in life and buzzy times

I got an offer from my work:-)

They offer me a trainee job at a different office, in a different part of the city...And i start this Friday.
It's so nice to bee giving that opportunity learn more and i accepted. of course :-)

To morrow I'm going to Oslo, for a course. It's a two days course and by coincidence it's a course in the same subject as the trainee job.

I'm going to bring my camera, so if it's some time left I'm going to use it as much as possible. Hopefully i can give you some nice pictures.

........see you later........

09 November, 2008

Boring sunday

I've been so bored today.
The rain is poring down and the wind is pretty strong, but i manage to go for a walk in between the rain and hale.

I was late for my walk today and the daylight was fading away. To keep up the quality with high ISO (800) i had to take B&W pictures, could have used colors too but my opinion is when i use high ISO B&W is best.

The three following pictures are from my neighborhood in Bergen, more specific Nordnes

Link to Google Maps
The first two pictures are taken with the orange marker, and the last one is with the yellow marker in the map.

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05 November, 2008

That's My World - Bergen city

I have had some day of from work and today i vent for a morning walk. It has been a cold but sunny day, and we have been out for two long walks today.

First of all, a picture from my neighborhood. As you can see, the sun is shining..

This next 4 pictures are of a monument for the Norwegian sea trawlers who trough all time since the Vikings, in War and peace had their work and living at sea.
It's a seven meter high monument located at Torgallmenningen. Made by Dyre Vaa (1903-1980) in 1950. Consists of 12 statues and four relief in two heights.

This is a wooden sculpture.

the last few years, the school of art build some sculpture and place it in city

This is some other kind of art.

The great son of Bergen.

Ole Bull, if you want to read more about him just hit the link

Then we are back to my favorite place. Bryggen (Bergen Harbor) this time i did as you can see, in B/W

When i was down at the harbor i met these two guys, they where enjoying the morning sun and the morning drink. It looked like something stronger then beer :-)

This is a "that's my world" post, if you want to see others.

just klick the link

As usual i give you some Norwegian news in English

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04 November, 2008

Panic attack

For the most of today we have been without internet, our internet provider made some change and suddenly everything went black...

After allot of time in phone with the company we are now finely connected again.

02 November, 2008

Rainy day driving

Jr. are selling newspaper in his neighborhood every Sunday. Today was no exception, but it was a rainy day and both him and the newspaper got soaking wet..

This weekend he was visiting me and i drove him to the pickup zone for the newspaper and then home when he was done.

Hope the weather is better at your place :-)

This first video is from the highway between Åsane and Bergen.

This one is from Bergen City, starting at the Harbor (bryggen i Bergen).

26 October, 2008

Bergen history lesson..

Vikings..
Yes we are the Vikings, and we are always ready....

Noo. I'm just joking.

This one is a replica from one of the many ships we had. It was working by sail or by rowing.

It's named after the King Haakon Haakonsson

In the front, they always put some creatures to scare of the enemy

This one is not a Viking.

Here name was "Madam Felle" and in the old days she had a bar/pub where people could come and get drunk..

At the bottom of the statue it shows how they believe it was

Back to old history again.

This is the place of the first woman hospital (st. catherine's hospital)

And now at the end we are entering the Bryggen Museum (Harbor museum)

This is from the old old parts, who was burned down in year 1170

Her is items from excavation and from old buildings in Bergen

Thise one shows toys.

On the right you kan see a early model of a ice skate, there is allso a ball and some other stuff.

This is a model of the old Bergen around year 1200 - 1300

around year 1300 Bergen was a trading center of European importance. The city had between 5 and 10,000, maybe about 7,000 inhabitants, and was clearly the largest and most important in the country. In European standards was a averige big city.

This is one of the Norwegians Kings (Magnus Lagabøte), in old old days Bergen was the capitol of Norway and the place the Kings ruled the country

Thise one shows the clothing and work/home

This was all for now, hope you found it interesting.

And as usual.

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