Second hike on Osterøy

The route was quite similar to the one I took the day before, only this time I wanted to see what was there if you took a different turn and to find out what that little house which I’d seen from the window.
I made use of the GPS receiver in my mobile and tracked the whole route for the first time.












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Hike up a mountain

Bergen

Today L. took me to Bergen where I took some photos. I had an opportunity to see more of the Norwegian beautiful landscape. I hope I’ll be able to take some more (and nicer) pictures when I go to the city on Monday.

Bergen panorama

I never thought I’d say this but: thank God for English! When I was in a few shops today, sales assistants asked me if they could help me but since they said it in Norwegian, I didn’t know what they wanted from me. Luckily, as soon as I said ‘sorry I don’t understand’, they switched to English. I know I couldn’t live in a place whose language I had no command of and knowing what it feels like when you’re spoken to and you don’t understand a word is a good motivation to sit down and start learning this crazy tongue.

Valestrandfossen

 

Apparently that’s the name of the place where I’m staying. It’s a charming village by the Sørfjord fjord.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeh, this part of Norway looks almost exactly as I imagined.

Norway

Holy shit! I’m flying to Norway right now!

I left home at 9am this morning, travelled by coach to Gdańsk, almost froze there, took a bus to get to the airport and spent a few hours there. No, the plane wasn’t late; it was me who, for the first time in a very long time, was well before the departure.

There’s fewer than 20 passengers on the plane whose capacity is 180 – this has never happened to me.

So, I’ll be in Norway in less than two hours. Funny, ‘cause it was never a county I wanted to visit in winter. I just hope everything goes well there for me.

A snowy fairytale

 

I didn’t ever think I’d ever miss snow but the last two or three days have made me realise that snow ain’t that bad. Everything is covered in it now and it does look like a fairytale setting. I just wish my camera worked so I could take better quality pictures. Unfortunately, I only managed to get my hands on an old mobile phone and the pictures that I took with it last night leave everything to be desired. There you go.

The snow has also brought back nice memories with it.

Mud rally

Last night my friend Patrick offered that we go canoeing today but in the evening, he called me to let me know he hadn’t managed to find a trailer to transport it to the river so instead he proposed we go on an expedition in his 4×4. I’d never done canoeing in this time of the year and was curious to see how it would be but I thought going for a ride could be fun too.

And it was, we manage to get to places where normal cars couldn’t and had a laugh on the way. Everything was going fairly smoothly until we decided to follow this road running across a meadow and which lead to a small rise. As it turned out, this rise was someone’s field on which cereal grew. We turned around as we didn’t want to vandalise it and made our way along the very same road where we came. The ground was saturated with water as it had rained the day before and it became unstable after our second attempt to go on it. The car got bogged down.

Obviously we tried to get the car out of the mud pool and we put lots and lots of twigs and branches but with each of our tries, the car sank deeper and deeper. We must have spent over an hour trying to get it out but each of our attempts failed, so Patryk called his fiancée and her brother who soon came to our rescue. After several more minutes of coming up with ideas and trying them out, the car was finally on stable ground.

Unfortunately, at the end of our ‘mission’ I looked like someone who’d been having a mud bath in his clothes.


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Zarazek is Serbia’s ambassador to the world

 

Honestly, I don’t know how it happened. I uploaded some photos from Serbia just last night and soon after that people started visiting my blog this Facebook page:

 

Can someone explain?

Some strange dream(s)

 

I was at home minding my own business when I found a corkscrew lying on the floor. It was the same corkscrew I had binned just a few days before bar one small difference - it had a plastic thing sticking out of it which seemed out of place. This little fact instantly made me think that what was actually happening with and around me was not reality but a dream. At this very moment I realised that everything around me was my mind's creation and as such, I could control it and do whatever I wanted. So I flew off. I just bounced off the floor and was in the air. Even better, I could penetrate the walls, and so I flew outside without using the door. I then reached the house of my childhood friend, penetrated the roof and found myself in his room. Strangely enough, he was only five in this dream so I just sat next to him for a while, went through the wall to another room and from there I penetrated the roof again to circle around the neighbourhood for a short while. I loved the feeling and the fact that I was aware it was just a dream didn't undermine the pleasure at all.

After some time I woke up all happy and excited about my newest discovery and I couldn't wait to tell everyone that what I had had what was, after all, a lucid dream. I was already making plans to write about it on this blog and how I was going to try and repeat it when... to my utter surprise, I woke up again! Yes, not only did I have a lucid dream but also a dream within a dream! Actually, the fact that I woke up from the first dream and continued to be asleep makes me a bit doubtful about the lucidity of the first. Maybe I just dreamt of being in control of my dream when in fact I just dreamt it? I don't know. But I do know that it sure felt amazing.

The return, day 4: Zvolen » Warsaw

 

We arrived in Zvolen the previous evening and the night we spent in the station must have been the worse night of my life. From Zvolen we took a train to Katowice, changed there for Cracow and then took another one to Warsaw where I spent the next few days at my friends.

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The return, day 3: Budapest » Zvolen

Hungarian version of Radio Maryja

Esztergom Basilica and the Danube

Excited to see Slovakia (Esztergom behind us, Štúrovo ahead of us and the Danube below)

Magyar Köztársaság or simply: Magyarország

Tekstyl, Ruchak, Obuwie i Cipok

The most disgusting loo I’ve ever been to (Pastovce)

Attention - train

Przechod zakazany :P

We really didn’t enjoy our stay in Pastovce

Trains in Slovakia (42km x 3 people = €5.76)

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