Asker Oslo Scandic

... My friend Ying had invited me to participate. The place was indeed a hugely romantic factory hall in Yuhang, a rundown suburbs of Hangzhou, China, where I live at present (game: find the 5 odd pictures). Well, Dom & Beate's was more my type of wedding. It took place in Asker, a very nice suburbs of Oslo, on Saturday the 9th of August 2008. It started at 2pm with the ...

... There are 8 rooms and the house is situated on a hill overlooking Oslo. It would be awesome if I could move. I'll be a little stiff in the morning, but other than that will be OK. Don't worry. Highway driving is going great and cars move too slow in towns to ever have anything serious happen." So! I've been in a lot of pain for the past 24 hours or so. The place I'm staying at is awesome, though I don't know the other people as they disappear into their ...

... 2 we visited Vigesland Park to check out the famous bronze and granite statues gifted to Oslo by a Norwegian artist called Vigesland. Apparently the deal was that Vigesland would dedicate his life's work to creating the statues in the park in return for housing, a workshop and all the materials he would ever need. And the result is pretty interesting. There must be over 200 statues of people of all ages shapes and sizes lining the main avenue of the park, and not a single ...

... movement known as Norwegian Romantic Nationalism, as the people of Norway drew on their unique Nordic roots and sought to express a distinct national character. Great literary masters as Henrik Ibsen ("A Doll's House," "Ghosts") and Bjørnstjerne Bjørson (1903 Nobel Laureate in Literature); great artists as Edvard Munch ("The Scream") and Adolph Tideman ("The Bridal Party"); and master musician Edvard Grieg ("Peer Gynt Suites," "Piano ...

... full house of spectators in the stadium and unfortunately no drunken Aussies getting kicked out as the match progressed. There was however one thing that was better here and that was to witness my first batting century, 102 not out by Mark Rampracash as Surrey ended the first days play with 273 for 3 wickets. I totally enjoyed the game even if the atmosphere wasn't the carnival atmosphere i had experienced in Australia. Ive no idea who won the eventually won the match as there ...

... stark buildings from the 60s and 70s that evoke the no-nonsense style of the Finns. But it all fits together, especially along the waterfront below an old fort, and is more human scale than is Copenhagen, given that there are only 500,000 people here, all of them proud Norwegians. The sculpture park is a vast project, 80 acres with over 1000 larger-than-life sculptures of human figures in personal interactions -- men carrying boys, old women ...

... pool has become a favorite hangout. We were all there yesterday and the boys return today before their big game against Sandvika, one of the best teams in Norway. The girls instead have elected to come to downtown Oslo for a walking and boating tour of the city with most of the chaperones. We'll meet this afternoon before the boys game. Running also applies to the pace of the games. The boys played the Asker 89\90 team again last night ...

... and Nutella - Lefse, and jelly - Lefse PB & J - you get the idea. While making my dinner I met a new dorm mate, she was from Germany and very sweet and shy. I offered here some lefse with Nutella and we became food sharing buddies off the bat. The floors in the hostel were notably heated floors, I now see what I was paying for. It is now Easter and I have had my fix of what Oslo had to offer me, I am now on a train heading east to Stockholm, Sweden.

well, trip 1 to oslo is officially completed. boy what a day it was too. we had to wake up pretty much at 0 dark 30 to get to the bus station and take a train down to oslo with just about every other norwegian in the history of the world. my goodness, what a ride. we got there and went running off to our first visit where we learned about diversity year 2008, a program that is happening all next year to encourage diversity between ...

... of bread, various cheeses, eggs, tomatoes, sardines and probably more that I can't remember. We were joined by her 14 year-old daughter Sarah Louise who spoke very good English and was quite talkative. We talked about her playing in her school band that was rated number 2 in Norway. She played an instrument called a euphonium and they have taken band trips by bus to Estonia, Germany ...