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Continue reading →: Vincent Must Die
France 2023 Seen through a wider lens, this is a clever satire; a satire on paranoia, of how society treds in the wake of the recent virus, on the deterioration of amicable relations between people. It is also a twist on paranoia itself, in that not only does Vincent think…
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Continue reading →: A weekend at Abelvik Bay and Wash DayAbelvik is on the Seterneset peninsula and was a wonderful place for the weekend. There are a few holiday homes tucked away in the forest, all with incredible views over the Norwegian Sea and islands. While out cycling on Saturday morning I met a German couple who told me they…
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Continue reading →: A Small Brewery on Frøya and back to the MainlandThe island of Frøya actually has a relatively large population, of 5,500, but it is concentrated on the more sheltered east side. Titran was remote and depopulated, much more my sort of place than the rest of the island. On Thursday I headed to the north where there are many…
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Continue reading →: Many thousands of Pools of DoomTemperatures in Trondheim hit 28C this afternoon. I’m not far away, out on one of the islands, Frøya, about a hundred kilometres to the west, and at the far west of the island, and it’s a bit cooler, a maximum or about 24C. Though this weather is rare over the…
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Continue reading →: A Challenging Hike and Lessons in Norwegian HistoryThe hike I had planned to do at Kalika Beach, the Sandvikstein, proved to be a lot more challenging than I expected. I took it on anti-clockwise and the first half climbs over lots of bare rock with magnificent vistas, before descending after three kilometres or so, through pine forest…
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Continue reading →: A Saloon Bar on the Nordøyvegen..The Nordøyvegen, which I wrote about yesterday, that connects the Nordøyene island group was completed in 2022, though it doesn’t connect the last island in the chain, Harøya, to the mainland. That would be one step too many at the moment, to great a cost, as the ferry that makes…
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Continue reading →: False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of Patagonia by María Sonia Cristoff
translated from the Spanish (Argentina) by Katherine Silver Cristoff’s travelogue tell the stories of the small and isolated towns scattered throughout Argentina’s far south, Patagonia, through the eyes of their residents. I have travelled here myself quite a lot over a five year period, for work and pleasure, so had…
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Continue reading →: Tunnels and LighthousesI watched the final ever episode of Curb last night, the end of the twelfth series. I can’t quite believe it’s finished, maybe David will change his mind, but as he said mid-way through the episode, he is 76. It is a bit longer than usual at 50 minutes, and…
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Continue reading →: Constitution Day and the End of a HeatwaveI celebrated Norwegian National Day with a circuit of the lake on foot with Roja, a bike ride up to the pass, and an absurdist French folklore novel. It was hot again, and wise to stay out of the sun in the middle of the day. It has been an…
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Continue reading →: Overstaying by Ariane Koch
translated from the French (Switzerland) by Damion Searls The protagonist and narrator here is a young woman who still lives in her deceased parents’ house in the small hometown she hates, but cannot bring herself to leave. She is not shy in criticism of others in the community yet aware…
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Where is Andy?
I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
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