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Painting Norway: Nikolai Astrup 1880-1928

Wrong number?

Settlement of Denmark….. as depicted in murals in our hotel in Aarhus
We love the dogs, but is the crazed prophet figure holding a mobile phone to his ear?

Lenin

When we heard that the Lenin Museum in Tampere (Finland) was in the Workers’ Hall we were expecting to find a pleasantly dowdy and battered space, but this is what we found, complete with buxom Russian receptionist.

On beer

Gert has made firm friends with Icelandic beer in the past few weeks. All the same….

Goodbye Iceland

What Gert did in Iceland and Sweden

Grundarfjardarbaer

When I was young

and walked alone,

alone I lost my way.

I felt rich

when I found company.

Man delights in man.

 

from Havalmal the Icelandic Tao.

Travels among threatened languages

“Languages embody the intellectual wealth of the people that speak them. Losing one of them is like dropping a bomb on the Louvre.” (Ken Hale, MIT) 126

Wilfred Thesiger