#lifeinnorway — Public Fediverse posts
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Today in my series of (#YouTube) comments that I may some day turn into a proper blog post, #FiXatoCommentsOn @olafurw's video with Tips for a Nordic Winter:
When I tell people "it's snowing 😭", they tend to react confused: "but snow is so beautiful!".
Yeah, no, snow is a treacherous sneaky bastard. From a distance, or in the low light levels, it's hard to tell if that patch of snow will gently compact when you step on it, whether you'll sink up to your knees through it, or if it's solid. Are those threadmarks fresh, or will they make your teeth dance violently in your mouth while you vibrate up and down as you cycle over those frozen ribbed-for-no-ones-pleasure textures.
Spikes for your shoes (or better yet, shoes with permanent spikes so you don't risk losing them halfway your journey in the dark, in the middle of the snow) are excellent and worth the expense though. However, they are not much use if the ice is hidden underneath treacherous (fresh) snow, which compacts around the soles and spikes of your shoes, so now you have snow soles making contact but no grip with the slippery ice, rather than the metal nublets gripping into it...As for "oh, snow is so beautiful!": yeah, sure, the first 1 or 2 days after it has fallen. But especially in the city, that pristine white soon turns into disgusting grey-brown sludge when it mixes with mud, exhaust, and other grime as the result of people and cars moving through and past it. Which then freezes over and you'll be stuck with it for the remaining 4–6 months of winter.
Snow is beautiful, out in nature, when I have free time. Not in the city, when I have to walk for half an hour to work daily, or to the shops, to buy milk (with a little jam on the side).#FiXatoRants #snow #rant #Norway #NordicWinter #LifeInNorway
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@nikface and I are off to get some sushi and #boba.
I've not been to this place before yet, but I'm excited to try it.🧋
I'll report back after.
#LifeInNorway #food -
Stopped for some food on the way home. Since I unicycled a fair bit today (41km) I felt deserved a beer but that would have gone straight to my head so this is an alcohol free beer, which was not too bad all things considered.
#Ankerbrua #Eventyrbrua #Oslo #Oslove #LifeInNorway #MastoBikes
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Who needs the Hollywood sign, we got this! 😆
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Just trying to do my bit to #NormalisePennyFarthingCycling here in #Oslo. :penny_farthing:
Hopefully all these tourists will tell their friends this is how we all get around in Norway. 😉
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Did a little sightseeing on the way home
[I might not have cycled the most direct route home]
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Stayed here for a couple of nights. Not too shabby. #LifeInNorway #Hytte #HytteTur #Oslo #Østmarka
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Electricity and hot and cold running water don’t seem like luxuries until you try living without them for a few days. #HytteTur #LifeInNorway
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#Oslo’s new electric buses have both USB-A and USB-C ports for charging devices, which is cool, but the new trams only have USB-A. 🫤 #incompatible #LifeInNorway
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Every year #OsloKommune puts down tons of grit and salt to protect against ice and snow. Then, when the ice melts, the grit is left lying on the ground. So every year the council cleans all the streets to collect it up again. It’s a remarkable (and presumably expensive) effort that explains why #Oslo looks so clean the rest of the year! #LifeInNorway
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Some micro-glaciers spotted on the #UniversityOfOslo campus. 🏔️ 😄 #Oslo #LifeInNorway
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“Over the course of a lifetime, an average Norwegian consumes 1,203 animals:
6 cows, 28 pigs, 24 sheep, 3 reindeer/deer, 1,137 chickens, and varying numbers of small game, horses, goats, and rabbits.”
#LifeInNorway #OsloHistoriskMuseum #Norway #UniversityOfOslo
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The view from my office window… (it’s been doing this all night and day 🤷♂️) #snowing #UniversityOfOslo #LifeInNorway
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Celebrating #LilleJulaften (‘little Christmas eve’) in traditional Norwegian style with a bowl of #risgrøt (traditional rice pudding topped with sugar, cinnamon and butter)* and #gløgg (a sweet spiced Christmas drink). 😋 #LifeInNorway
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I have just realised that #Nidar’s Caramel & Crunch is actually a #Twix in circular form. 🤯 #snackology #Norway #LifeInNorway