bryggen i bergen

Bryggen in Bergen – Norway, from around 1300.

Unesco’s World Cultural Heritage

The famous fish market is just around the corner

toko di kampung

Dalam perjalanan ke Bergen bulan lalu, kita singgah di 1 toko yg bagus banget di sebuah kampung.

Ternyata ada juga bunga bougenvillea di sini.. dan pintu toko yg unik

Di dalam toko..

Di luar toko..

a little town

from above..

a little bit to the left outside the card is where i live..

with 25 thousand inhabitants, is more or less the same as the number of employee

in the company i worked for in indo

they call it “the city of roses”

yes, roses are everywhere in summer time

Molde Jazz

Molde jazz festival – 2009, took place on 13th – 17th of July..

That’s the time of the year when a lot of people come to this small quiet little town and it’s a good time to make business.

While a lot of people/tourists come in, there are also quite many locals who travel out of town during the festival to avoid the crowd n noise n traffic jam.

Last year we got 2 chickens from the festival and this year were 2 penguins and a little whale… bener2 kurang kerjaan

Hjertøya

In September, we went to Hjertøya island for hubby’s company outing. It was fun. Hjertøya is one of many small islands scattered in the sea outside our small town, and these islands are very popular for recreation: sailing, swimming, kayaking, picnic, BBQ or just sunbathing.

These islands can only be reached by boat. There is a regular boat service every summer, because there is an open-air Fisheries Museum on Hjertøya. The Fisheries Museum is in the form of a small fishing village with old houses, fishermen’s shacks, cod-liver oil factory, engineering workshop and schoolroom.

It portrays local coastal culture, working life and living conditions from around 1850, and it has a large collection of boats and maritime equipment. Hjertøya is also famous because the late German painter Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), ousted from Nazi Germany in 1937, spent many of his summers here. The hut he built can still be seen today.

Varden

Varden is a small mountain above the city of Molde, from which can have a stunning view of some 200-something mountaintops. There is a small restaurant, and a “varde”, hence the name of the mountain.

The word “varde” actually means “beacon” and in the old days (before the telephone) the “varde” mountains were important, because they used to spread important messages by lighting a big fire on top of that mountain, so that the next village or town would see the message and then make a fire on their own varde, for another village or town to see and spread the message. These days a varde is a construction made of rocks, sometimes round, sometimes square, sometimes a pyramid.

Varden is also a famous tourist spot in Norway. When we were there last summer, we met a lot of tourists. I knew they were from Korea by the language they spoke, sigh… watching too much Korean dramas