Today Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands arrived in Oslo for an official state visit. According to the statement of the Norwegian Royal House she would be arriving by sea, on board of the HNLMS Tromp (F803). Well… she did travel the last kilometre or so on board, but first she travelled from the Netherlands to […]
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Avinor, the Norwegian Air Authority, has just closed the entire Norwegian airspace for unknown time because of a cloud of volcanic ashes. The released the following statement: Norwegian controlled air space closed The whole Norwegian controlled air space is closed from 10 a.m. today. This is due to clouds filled with ash from the volcanic
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After seeing TV2 hjelper deg (TV2 helps you, a popular consumer program) doing a comparison on the prices and quality of online flower stores here in Norway, I decided to do a little experiment and compare some prices as well. I decided to stick to the TV2 test winner, Euroflorist, and compare www.euroflorist.no, www.euroflorist.se &
Flowers in Norway are expensive… but only for Norwegians! Read More »
Damn those [beep]ing kids in my neighbourhood! I just found out that one or more times some kids have taken the mail from our mailbox and just tore it up and threw it away…! 😥 We heard about it today because one of their parents found out, and recovered some of the mail, including the
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Here’s a good example of sloppy journalism: An article in Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf about an incident where 91(!) people got hit by lightning during a national championship rallycross in Norway. According to the article the incident happened in Oslo… Wrong, wrong, wrong… Actually the rallycross event was being organized in Flisa, more than 2
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Oops, they did it again… 🙁 Borregaard, a large chemical manufacturer on the outskirts of Sarpsborg, Norway, and as such (one of) the largest employer in this area, has (probably) again managed to infect the area with Legionella, causing an outbreak of Legionellosis (also known as Legionnaires’ disease). Back in 2005 they already quite ‘successfully’
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