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If you ever do like me, travel the coast of Norway with a motor vehicle, you better get used to ferries. And what better thing to do while waiting for the next ferry and escaping the impatience of your travelling companions, than to grab your camera and immortalize this great event.
Initiative, strength, reserve, speed, patience, experience... all a man needs to do his work well in addition to co-operation, mutual respect and cordiality. It takes time to learn, still does not guarantee success.
Norway: Small Towns and "How-Can-Anyone-Live-There?"-Places.
A substantial difference between Norway and Sweden are the policies of centralilizaton and decentralisation. Norway has tried the latter, trying to maintain a scattered population while the major cities were to remain comparatively small.
Norway: Buildings and Landscapes
In the old days we built our houses out of what was available in the vicinity, of clay, logs, straw, bamboo, stone. Buildings became an integral part of their surroundings. Not so anymore. Who knows where the brick and cement comes from that shape our homes. But even these materials are logical in relationship to the landscape of the city because they shape their own landscape.
In the eastern track of the Valdres Valley stands a knob-shaped mountain called Rondemellen. Though she is a mere 100 meters taller than her nearest neighbour, she enjoys a curious fate, that of serving as a landmark for a hundred miles all around. I don’t know why that is. Other mountains sink into the general landscape, Rondemellen does not. I have spent many a childhood summer at the foot of Rondemellen and her brother Skarvemellen. This is my tribute to them.
France: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Cheese
The once-a-week market at the French Catalonian town of Collieure. I've published one or two of these pix before, but not in this context.