taken during lunch

i had never seen someone eat a whole capsicum before…so…

waiting for the bus to arrive

had to test the new lens…is pretty sharp…but focussing is a bitch due to the wide dof, the frame above and this are both @2 and you can see the focus issue

saturday…sushi with Olve and Maja



on our way to teketopa…

…we came accross this…initially we assumed it was a stuffed toy…but as i got closer it started growling…









leaving teketopa…

and heading to Asker!!! for no particular reason…which couple of days left before i left…i wanted to see as much of norway as i could

got to Asker…

…only to be told that we would have to walk for 20 minutes before got to the house

the main street is Asker…pretty sharp wide open



walking…

and more


and…finally

we made it home

next morning

later that evening…went to ulfs place

for dinner

kaki baked this easter themed cake

and

that

is

it…waiting for my plane to frankfurt…

leaving work

on the road…in Oslo driving on the e18

we stopped for dinner once we got into sweden





we stayed at alex’s parents place


alex’s parents showed me their camera collection


sunday morning…we decided to go for a walk around town

saturday was 24th worldwide sketchcrawl, we met up at frogner park

as usual i did not sketch but took some photos…which felt good

got lucky with this one

the kid was learning parkour


at the top people were chilling out…chilling out is good

this was Alex’s first sketchcrawl

lots of tourists


he was just chilling out with his kid

guillaume sketched and did some water color

maja and olve sketched

loved the fact that she stood out

waiting for the tram at frogner plass to goto aker brygge


kid was enjoying the water from the fountain at aker brygge

riikka and ville joined us…no, these are not them

this is riikka

torstein had arrived from bergen for a week at work and decided to do some sketch


the gang

the girl who is visibly annoyed came up to us and asked us what we were doing…and was surprised that we did this for a living…i mean art

more tourists…

while i pondered why people like to have their picture taken in front of “stuff”, ville smoked

soon it was time for dinner…olve had some fish

i had this chicken sandwich, which was awful

luckily i had also ordered a Crème brûlée

romance on the next table

headed to a bar, torstein had bought these for his kids


the view outside

the view inside

last day in Stockholm

we checked out and moved our bags to a locker in the train station

and headed to the posh side of Stockholm

dunno why but just like frogner in oslo(where i live)…the posh side is full of old people



chilled out for some time in a park





there was construction going on…some sort of gig

who does that…

back to the malls


shopping done…everyone is happy


time for lunch

and some cheese cake

and then…back to oslo

next day…no more shopping…we decided to do some touristy stuff

avoided the spider infested bridge

and headed towards the Palace

which looks like this


view from the palce…it was a beautiful sunny day

next to me alex was papping kaki

the guards preparing for the day ahead

another view of the palace



lots of Illuminati stuff here



the light was pretty good


lots of tourists here…the old city Gamla Stan



if you have been to La Rambla in Barcelona…it feels somewhat like that

LOTS of people…we bought an Ice Cream and left

supermarket…bought Ubuntu Cola


made our way to Restaurant Gondolen at Katarinahissen

the restaurant was closed but the view was worth the walk




kept walking…dunno where this is…just that we were heading to south stockholm




had a pasta salad for lunch…

took the subway to the

hotel

back on the subway to skarpnack to meet Alex’s friend who just had a kid







back to the awesome pub we found eariler



heading back to the hotel…more tourists



the view from the spider bridge