Nor-Way

For the last two weeks, my wife and I have left England and been touring Norway - via France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark - and back again.  I rather resented most of the sky being stolen by the afforested mountains (when compared to my home's endlessly low horizons beyond cone zero), but overall a significant time was 'enjoyed' by we insignificant human specimens.  Days steeped in Ibsen's GHOSTS and Munch's SCREAM, the latter painting seen in the Oslo National Gallery on this trip. Lugubrious mythologies from Elder Edda and Fjordic landscapes. Sunshine and wreathy clouds.

Many thanks to Johnny of Shearings who facilitated us and others through this Viking Wanderer journey by many seas and many roads and many words. Now and again one has a holiday of a lifetime, and this was one of those holidays! (Aardvark, Aardwolf, Bazaar, Maat, Kursaal).

During this trip, serendipitously, I read THE CENTAUR by Algernon Blackwood & A WELL FULL OF LEAVES by Elizabeth Myers - plus THE ENCHANTRESS OF FLORENCE by Salman Rushdie about a non-existent being who somehow truly existed by means of 'magic fiction'.

Just a few of our many photos:

Some genuine cones:

Here on the knees of Roland in Bremen Germany:

On a Bremen building:

On Copenhagen Railway Station:

Other images:

In Copenhagen off the beaten track;

A staring game with Churchill in Copenhagen;

A puppet in a Bremen window:

In Bremen:-

In Copenhagen:

Some of the images in Norway:

The steely-eyed businessman behind 'Nemonymous':-

A time of distraction:

Which will die first, the troll or the thing with the stick?