Look back on our first year in Oslo Our family arrived in Oslo in Summer 2015. Here is why we moved to Norway, after 11 years spent in Sydney Australia and 11 months in Zurich, Switzerland. We just got over our…
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First time we discovered Sognsvann lake was last year in August. We could swim, pick up berries, have a picnic. This winter we came back and it looks completely different. The lake is totally frozen, children and adults ice skate…
Hi everyone Got so busy I missed the western New Year. So I’m taking today’s opportunity to also wish all of you, dear readers, a wonderful lunar year of the Rooster, filled with joy, laughter, happiness, success, prosperity, luck and…
No need to wait for 21st December for winter to come. This year snow, cold and darkness came early. Temperature dropped early November. It started snowing whilst the leaves had still not all fallen off their trees yet. Last year, snow only…
I haven’t posted for a while, sorry about that! Looks like it’s because I’ve been blogging quite a fair bit for work so I don’t have the drive to blog for my own blog anymore. It has to change though….
We’ve been living in Oslo for a bit over a year now. My husband and I are keen foodies. We love going out to restaurants. We enjoy cheap and cheerful joints as well as fancy 3 Michelin starred restaurants. This time,…
Visiting Oslo over a week-end A month after my high school friends came to visit me in Oslo, I had the pleasure of hosting Karine. Karine is a friend from Zürich. We used to be part of the same dance…
Three high school friends came to visit me in Oslo from France over one week-end mid June. Here is a short video of what we did in just 12 hours. Vigelands Park lunch at Lorry’s Litteraturhuset King Palace Dessert at…
How’s the weather in May and June in Oslo? This is our first spring in Oslo. We didn’t quite know what to expect. In fact you see in the streets people wearing winter jackets next to people with singlets and…
We are kind of a serial expat family and arrived last July in Oslo, Norway. This is our first spring here and our first Syttende Mai: 17th May, Norway’s Constitution Day, the country’s national day. WOW we loved it! Bunads: Norwegian traditional costumes Unlike July…