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My latest books – Jules Verne

Last week when away on vacation I read two books with five stories written by Jules Verne

  • En reise til jordens indre (Voyage au centre de la terre)
  • 5 uker i ballong (Cinq semaines en ballon)
  • Reisen til månen (De la Terre à la Lune)
  • En ferd rundt månen (Autour de la Lune)
  • Et drama i luften (Un drame dans les airs)

Amazed by the level of details in the stories. Also fun/interesting to read how his view of Africa was now almost 150 years ago, or actually it is 150 years ago.

Unwanted visitors in the garden

Two weeks ago we had a visitor in the garden of the house that we rent out. The driver came from Løken and somehow managed to come very close to the trash stand, I guess he touched it the the mirror of car. You can see a crack and that the tiles have been moved. Then jumped on to the lawn and rolled over, broken glass on the lawn as well.

The article from the newspaper the day after can be read here at Indre.no

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Commuting to work using my bike

Nice weather and plenty of time, got up early and headed for work on my bike. When at Gan I decided to go where I never had been before. Assuming that there should be gravel roads/tracks/single tracks between Gan and Hvalstjern I turned right and headed of into the woods. As usual, at some point I should have turned right but I did not, therefore the gravel road which shrunk into a single track later shrunk into almost no track, see pictures below. But no problem due to the dry conditions.

Must explore the tracks there at a later point.

All in all a very good morning, 56 kilometers and almost two and a half hour on the bike, like everyday should have been (but can’t)

Total Body Crossramp to Tom Petty

Going to work really early this week, spending the first hour in the gym. Today I did not feel for the spinning cycle so I decided to try the “Total body crossramp”-thing. Strange kinda device, but it does not give me pain in the legs so once in a while it can be ok. Anyhow, spent the time listening to the new album Hypnotic Eye by Tom Petty. A bit to easy listening while doing exercise, but I might be listening to it several times.

Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening

Yesterday afternoon there was a thunderstorm and one of the lightning caused a fire to start just about one kilometer from where we live. Together with the local fire department the neighbors headed of to extinguish the forest fire. Luckily it was just a small fire, the lightning had struck a pine tree and the fire had started at the end of the roots. After this experience we now have a plastic container with almost 1000 liters of water standing ready until the dry period has ended.

Behind Jens Erik you can see the pine tree where the lightning struck.

And yes, the title of the post is a reference to Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.

Spinning to Braid – No Coast

Picked randomly from the rock category in Wimp solely based on the length of the album fitting the time I had available. Did I enjoy it? Somewhat like easy listening, will not add it to my list of favorite albums.

A room with a view

As long as your name is not Mrs. Richards and you insist on having a room with a (sea-)view I would recommend booking room 1920 at Villa Norangdal, the very same room we had last week. From that room you will wake up to a beautiful view of the narrow valley Norangsdalen.

And if you are not familiar with the name Mrs. Richards, spend 2 minutes watching this clip from Fawlty Towers [video:youtube:tcliR8kAbzc]

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