Beautiful Ruins – book review
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter My rating: 4 of 5 stars I wasn’t familiar with Jess Walter but the recommendation from NY Times bestseller list enticed me but it was […]
Category Archives: Haugesund
Knitting in Haugesund – Sy med oss!
Looking for a way to jazz up your or your kids bike? Cast on and knit and pearl your way to the coolest bike ever! Looking forward to coming back […]
Shining stars in a podunk town
When I am not in a podunk town in Germany, I live in a podunk town in Norway. Haugesund population 35 000. By American standards this town wouldn’t even warrant […]
Blown away on Fairy Island
We visited Feøy this Easter and did some obligatory sightseeing on this little island off the coast of Karmøy. If you live on an island in the north sea with […]
Christmas market in Haugesund, Norway
The past two weeks I have stood outside in near gale winds selling my wares in a little shed on the city hall square. It was wonderful! Not only was […]
Jenny’s garden – part I
Last month, I visited one of the most exciting gardens I have seen in Norway. Fall weather being what it is, I only got half way through before we had […]
West coast summer nights
Sometimes summer on the west coast of Norway is hard to differentiate from winter. The first year I lived in Norway, I was sure our thermometer was broken because it […]
Are you a scrapper?
I use to like the idea of scrapbooking. At some point during scrapbooking evolution, the scrapping materials took over and the story you were trying to tell became hidden in […]
If you want something done right…
…do it yourself. That’s what the Norwegians think about birthday parties. While the American tradition is that your nearest and dearest do something nice for you on your birthday. Here […]
Godt nyttår, Happy New Year and Guten Rutsch!
Wishing you a wonderful New Year! For us, 2010 was an exciting year with many small adventures. We are looking forward to many new adventures in our new temporary German […]
Seven sorts of cookies
Any self-respecting housewife in Norway, past a certain age, has baked seven different cookies for Christmas. I only managed the one but can excuse myself because of traveling. Great Grandma Minnie’s […]
Norwegian Christmas dinner
What did you eat for dinner? A nice juicy turkey? Maybe a succulent glazed ham? Us? Well we had salted, dried lamb. No really. As previously professed I was going […]
