Broken ice.

The ice is breaking.
Nice and cold Sunday walk today.

Chaos on the roads.

Chaos on the roads this morning...

More snow today.

More snow today.

Sunshine.

Sunbeams and woollen socks...

Sunny and cold today.

Thomas and his dog.

Two good friends.

This is THOMAS ASKE BERGE and his cute and energetic Jack Russell Terrier.

Thomas is both an actor and filmmaker. He studied to become an actor in New York.

Now he is busy with film production back in Norway.

Nice meeting you both.

Cancer research

(Saturday's posting, just a bit late.)

Landscape.... as you see it south of Stavanger.

The pink and blue  is a reminder of cancer research, that farmers support.

Probably a cause that many of us will get in touch with one way or the other.

Snow on the beach.

Snow on the beach.

Morning has broken...

A house next to the runway.
An early morning flight.
And as you see MORE SNOW today.

No PIGS in Stavanger???

Stavanger has more rain than snow.

Still we have a few days every year when it is chaos with ice, snow and lots of slippery roads.
We have a couple of choices of what type of winter wheels we should use on our cars.
If you are driving in to Stavanger or just through the city, heading north or south, and you have studded tyres,  you have to pay for a day pass or an annual fee to cover the new rules that forbid the use of "studded tyres" (or "piggdekk" as we call them) in Stavanger.

PIGG is STUD in English, and NOT A PIG.

Looking at the sign, it looks like we don't allow PIGS in Stavanger

Sounds funny, not only for foreigners, but also for us living here.
It looks like for the web address, someone has freely translated pigg-fri (stud free) into pig-free?

Snow again.

Snow again.
Fantastic to wake up to the white landscape.
Our dog was eager to go out for a walk.
Here is an image taken on the way to the woodland.
This is about 20 minutes from home, south of Stavanger.

SPORTY MAN.

The snow is melting now.
This is an image taken last week.
Even with lots of snow, there are people who are out running.
Here is one SPORTY MAN.

At the back you see the Petroleum Museum and the city bridge.

Kongsgata.

The road KONGSGATA, next to the city park and the little lake Breiavatnet.

Klepp

Another image taken from the air.
It is Klepp, and the area with the houses is Verdalen.
Driving by car it takes about 30 minutes from the centre of Stavanger.
I was going away for a couple of days.
And as always, happy to get a window seat! :-)

Landscape.

The landscape along the coast,
seen from the air earlier this week.

It is getting colder.

It is getting colder...

Broken ice.

Broken ice on the water.

Stormy weekend.

The best thing to do this weekend is to stay indoors..... 

Selbu votter.

If you google SELBU VOTTER, and look for images, you will find a whole range of different patterns.
These are my newest ones, and they keep me warm on cold
days like we have now.

Sporty people.

More snow.
Yesterday I noticed these two smiling sporty people jogging in town!

(At the back you can see the top of the Cathedral and the fish market.)

As you can see, the snow is melting.....