Showing posts with label Norvège. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norvège. Show all posts
Saturday, 20 December 2025

Glögg (word of the day)

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 Don't judge me, but I have been watching a Christmas romcom series on Netflix, called Home for Christmas . Not exactly groundbreaking, ...
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Tuesday, 27 February 2024

"Nordic Noir"

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 I stumbled on an article in Forbes today: Nordic Noir: 5 Must-Read Crime Novels Set in Norway . I don't know if I ever heard the term ...
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Tuesday, 7 February 2023

A spies' coat of arms

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This post is I hope the first of many about police, army and intelligence services around the world. And if you ask me why I am doing this, ...
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Wednesday, 21 December 2022

A Storm for Christmas

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 'Tis the season to be watching and I surprised myself in that regard recently. I wanted to watch something Christmassee but not silly a...
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Saturday, 23 July 2022

The Coolest Chess Pieces

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I found this picture in the Facebook page of the British Muse um a few days ago. They are called Lewis Chessmen because they were found on...
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Saturday, 4 December 2021

Blood on Snow (#Christmascrime)

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'Tis the season to be reading and I know I blogged about this book before, in 2019 to be precise . Nevertheless, I thought it would be ...
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Sunday, 1 December 2019

Blood on Snow

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'Tis the season to be reading! Today is the first day of Advent, so Christmas is getting closer, so I am giving you some reading suggest...
Sunday, 7 January 2018

A friendly troll

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Back in November , I blogged about a troll I found in a shop in York . I mentioned then that I had seen this brand before, in fact that m...
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Monday, 13 November 2017

A troll in York

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I took this picture in a shop in York , you can see here a proper Scandinavian troll . The monster, mind you, not the Internet creature. T...
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Sunday, 9 October 2016

Décapsuleur scandinave

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Mon frère PJ a acheté ce décapsuleur lors de son voyage à Bergen . il est fait en bois de renne, rien que ça. Mes parents en ont un aussi...
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Sunday, 23 September 2012

Plogue d'un carnet de voyage

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Il semblerait que je fasse beaucoup de publicité ces temps-ci, dans mes billets en français du moins. Cela dit, évènement rarrissime, PJ a b...
Monday, 20 August 2012

The Rosenkrantz Tower

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I am publishing here, with my brother's permission, the tower I mentioned in my earlier blog. He took the photo from his cell (his cel...
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Saturday, 18 August 2012

An old tower and a great unknown line

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As I mentioned yesterday in my rambling nostalgia post, my brother is in Norway. He already uploaded a few pictures on Facebook. The world...
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Friday, 17 August 2012

Scandinavian memories

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This picture was taken in my last trip to Québec. I took it, wondering where and how I would use it here on this blog. The pic is a bit bl...
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Monday, 25 July 2011

Fighting the darkness

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I said yesterday that I wouldn't blog about it because I found it depressing, but I think I will anyway. Take it as a necessary catharsi...
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