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Application form received
Administrative stuff started. Have to send it back before March 19th. To current / former students at UIB : If anyone could give me or lend me its conpendiums of the SAS12, 13, 14 courses it would be very very great. I don't want to pay 150 euros just...
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Bömbers @ Hinsides - 08/12/2007
To days after the crazy night of Thursday, Abbath crew was invading Hinsides to bomb and kick the ass of Bergen with Motörhead covers. I feeled better than the day before - I couldn't even swallow a beer - but could not drink more than one pils because...
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Taake + Slavia = Dommedag²
Mid-January Slavia was playing at Hinsides and even if the set list was the same as the one played at Hole In The Sky, the gig was powerful and great, and only 10€ (80kr). PLO shirt and Hamas masks-style, was fun. Too much light maybe, could have been...
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På Tur Rundt Bjørgvin...
I motivated myself and some friends to go around often by car and visit some deserted places, even in the middle of Bergen Kommune. First tour was the islands of Bjorøy and Tyssøy, located in the Korsnesfjorden, between Sotra and the continent. They are...
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Snøkaos !!
On March 5th, Bergen was victim of something familiar to other parts of Norway: a Snøkaos. Massive snowfall, prowlers overbusy, buses stuck in snow of sliding across the streets, people SNOWBOARDING (!!!) in the streets of Sentrum Bergen!! View from my...
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Courses
Hei folks. I'm working for my finals (right now a course about the Swedish Erik/Sverker dynasties) and I hope you're all fine. Here in Paris the weather is pretty nice and the smell of BBQ starts flying over my neighbourhood on sundays. I have not said...
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Introdution / explications
Bryggen (image: UIB) Short statement. I'm going to Bergen July 26th 2007, for a Socrates/Erasmus uni exchange, for my History bachelor last year. I created this blog early just because i had time to spend and because i was bored a lot. Of course its hard...
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Some news + H.I.T.S + Denmark
Hi folks It's wednesday evening and my week is quite busy and intense... first with the results of the election in France i won't comment here, then with my finals and third with the announcement of the killer line up of the Hole In The Sky. So monday...
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First hike in Norway for 2007 !
** Back from a hike at Løvstakken, one of the seven mountains of Bergen widely known as de syv fjell ** We missed the trail so we went straight in the forest along a waterfall (a little bit before Solheim). It was to wet and bush to reach the summit without...
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Week end til Hardanger
Heisann folks. I spent a wunderbar week-end in the district of Hardanger. In Aga, on the shores of the Sørfjord, to be more accurate. I put four spanish girls in my wunderbar Renault Clio and we left Bergen on Saturday. We directly headed towards Odda...
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Hurra for 17 mai
Today is the National Norwegian Day. The Eidsvoll Constitution (1814) is commemorated. So, just a litle hail from France to the Norwegian people at home or abroad ! This time I wont write a verse from the Poetic Edda but two verses of a national song....
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Trips and Co...
Hei alle sammen... I have not written here for a while, again. I have to work that out... life begins to be a routine here, between courses, alcohol, nights downtown and so on. The courses are often cool, sometimes shit and boring. Actually life seems...
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Journey from Paris to Bergen, and other stuff...
We arrived, a friend and I, in Bergen last friday in the evening, after almost one week of travel throught Germany and Danemark. Here my trip report. You can access the concerned albums by clicking on the pics. Saturday 21th: Paris > Solingen (Ger). Evening-hike...
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Exams
Last week was the week of the exams for a lot of people, but the exam period lasts from late october to mid-december. Therefore I had SAS14 (Norwegian Art and Culture) on Wednesday 21st and SAS13 (Norwegian Culture and History) on Thursday 22sd. For SAS14,...
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Taake
More than one month without any update. I feel a little bit like an asshole, because last year I was contemplating with bitterness and anger the lazyness and routine of the people doing blogs about their stay in Bergen, with an update every month. Now...
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One month in a row... dammit !
Well I just realized that I have been here for already one month... here I can't find any time to do all what I would like to do... Stucked between walks, parties, courses, and so on. I would need 35 hours a day. I'll try to sum up that last month with...
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Trip to Fedje
Last wednesday we went to Fedje Kommune, around 60km and 1h30 north of Bergen. This island is the westernmostpoint of Norway, except Jan Mayen of course. I took my car and we were 15 so we had to rent two others ones: Audi A4 Break and Vovlo V50 Break....
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Gullfjellstoppen
It had been a while that we were talking about hiking together with Wolfger, a German guy from my Norwegian course. Time fleeing, exams and so on made Sunday 9th the only possibility for us. I first wanted to go to a mountain in the Voss massif, like...
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Taake fy faen !
Taake will be in concert November 8th. The venue is - of course - Garage. Don't miss this opportunity before Hoest do another stupids things and get jailed again. DRA TIL HELVETE !! “Hordalands Doedskvad I” Stedvis taake paa kysten Vil deg til livs Forvolder...
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Norwegian groceries / brands
First off all, this article may be updated in the future... So, everybody knows that everything is expensive in Norway, especially food. But it has to be said that it is incredibly cheap for the locals, food being around 12% only of the expenses of the...
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Fantoft Studentboliger
I have not yet done an article about the place I live, simply because dozens of blogs did it before me and just repeat what the other one say and the following will tell... but let's go. Built in 1968 in the village of Fantoft, located in the Bergen Valley...
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Heia Brann !
Well, I usually don't like football and all the white trash/beer dance/hooligan/stupidity which often go with it. But Brann deserve this article... this good Norwegian team won the Norwegian cup in 1962 and 1963... then nothing for 44 years. Yesterday...
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Holidays in empty Fantoft and arrival of the new kids... and new courses.
While almost everybody went back to see mommy daddy and caetera for Christmas, I decided long time ago that I would stay at Fantoft for this time. This time consisted mainly in mass sleeping, mass drinking, mass bullshiting. We had a Christmas meal (French...
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Rømmegrøt
The rømmegrøt is a dessert which used to be served as main meal by the past, because it's cheap, easy to make, and prevent you from the cold and the hunger. Now few people like it, but it's nice when cinnamoon, sugar and butter are added. You can do it...
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Føroyar Winter 2007
Long time without updates... so long job for me now to tell what happened here since December... A trip in the Faroe Islands was planned since long by me but nobody wanted to join me. By coincidence other people I know had planned that on their side....