TECHNOLOGY!
Just got back from a "salary beer" session with people from work. It was good fun, but the beer in Norway is too expensive (246NOK for 3 pints, you do the math).
I've spent a lot of money, probably way too much money, but most of it is not on beer.
I've spent money somewhere else, but for what? What will I get?
I will get loads of technology placed into a tiny tiny box. I've ordered myself a new cell phone, and I've gone the full mile while doing so.
It's Samsung's new Omnia HD (or I8910 if you prefer) that is coming my way. I'm super excited, the spec. list is endless, but most important is the built-in camera, something I've missed for a long time (I've only had a SLR camera, something you don't bring everywhere).
I suspect the phone to be in my posetion early sometime next week!
I'm also excited about returning to Skien once again, it was awesome last weekend, but not enough time. I've planned to visit a few friends, and I'm really looking forward to seeing them again! Additionally I hope to squeeze in a few beach volley sessions with Marte and the others! Good times coming up!
I've also noticed the "Anbefal" link below every post. For those of you not quite there in Norwegian, "Anbefal" means "Recommend", that is, click the damn thing if you like the post (or if you like me).
COPENHAGEN & ROSKILDE
My inverted blogging continues and I've now arrived to the Roskilde Music Festival 2009 - June 28th to July 5th.
Cate, Geir and me arrived in Copenhagen the 25th of June. We stayed at Nina's where Johannes and Anna-Mari also cutched for a few days.
Copenhagen is truly beautiful and we saw the little murmade, the opera and even got to see a very good Veto concert in Tivoli!
After some good days in Copenhagen we packed our bags and headed for Roskilde Saturday night (big thanks to Nina for such great preparations). The official opening of the festival is Sunday at 8 o'clock, but the fences are normally cut down a few hours in advance. We figured arriving at midnight would give us enough time to prepare for the running to get an ok camp.
Sunday night: Coffee and Irish cream (Feeney's)
This year it was all different - the fences were cut 9 o'clock Saturday night and the camping site was practically full when we got there. We managed to squeeze ourselves into a spot in J camp, as far away from the festival area as you can get. We got the tent up in the dark and were pleased to have a slot!
Left: Beer system. Right: Happy people in our camp.
Sunday we got our camp properly together and chilled out by the tent. We did this most of the four first days, but we also listened to some of the up-and-coming bands at the Junior Pavillion.
Festival life is good!
The big names started Thursday. Kanye West did a good concert, as did Trentemøller and his friends (great show), but my absolute Thursday favourite was the danish rock band Volbeat!
No Roskilde without Tuborg beer
Friday we saw a really good concert with Negash Ali, we got disappointed by the Fleet foxes but re-energized by Baddies.
One of the main names Friday was Oasis, that we saw earlier this year in Toulouse. This time it was a lot better (a good crowd too makes a good concert)!!! We got to see Röyksopp too - but it was too crowded as they played on a stage that was too small in my opinion (Arena).
Oasis!
Saturday was a great day. We saw Lily Allen, Tim Christensen, Håkan Hellström, Slipknot and Petshop Boy.
The crowd at Gogol Bordello - best concert ever!
The American rapper Lil Wayne was supposed to have a gig on Orange stage, but cancelled and he got replaced by Gogol Bordello!
BEST LIVEBAND EVER! The ground shook underneath the thousands (20-25k) that jumped to their Balkan inspired punk music!
Gogol Bordello!!!
The last and final day we got to see Peter Doherty, Ida Maria (I like you so much better when ...!), a bit of Madness and Coldplay. In my opinion, Coldplay was beaten by Whitest boy alive, who had a super concert in Arena.
I realize that this isn't the best post ever, all I've done is to mention some of the bands we got to see - but hey, that's what a festival is all about - the music and the bands!
We got on the train straight after the Coldplay concert and returned to Copenhagen. The following day I flew to Oslo and work :)
A heavy duty backpack in the chaos (bad organisation at the train station)
Roskilde is without a doubt my best music experience ever!
WEEKEND TRIP: WALES
Crowded at the Wirral show
I'll do it a bit different the coming blog posts. This blog is mostly about my adventures during my exchange year, but I haven't been very good at keeping the blog up-to-date. No wonder really, 'cause there's been a lot of things going on, but now - and in the coming weeks, I'll have more time to write down all the things I've been able to do.
I always write down everything I do on my iPod Touch, but I've managed to lose my charging cable, so I cannot reach my memoires for the time being. Therefore I have no recollection ("ish") of what I've been up to the past 3-4 weeks.
My remedy for this is to do inverted blogging: I'll start with the present and go backwords in time - until everything has been told and I can return to the normal way. Clever - here we go:
WEEKEND TRIP TO WALES
It was all planned a few months ago when I figured I could visit Tom in Wales without spending too much money. I left straight after work last Friday (July 10th).
Already the same night we headed to the local pub, Clayton Arms where I got to try Bitter ale. Very tasty indeed. I even won over Tom's brother George in Pool (shame on George).
Saturday morning, Tom and I went to Moss Valley golf course and a round of golf. Neither of us have played for more than a year, something the number of balls heading for the woods clearly showed. It's amazing how we managed to get through all 18 holes without running out of balls. The definite highpoint of the day was when Tom pithed in a fantastic Eagle from about 45 meters (Par 4)!
When we got home we played some Guitar Hero on the Xbox 360 - my favourite game, I think. Still can play Muse's Knights of Cydonia on Hard :D
Tom's 21st birthday with food, drinks and good friends!
It was Tom's birthday and it was celebrated with lots of good food and drinks and ended in the early hours of Sunday!
Sunday we had a chill morning, and then I joined the Cheesbrough family to the Wirral Show, a huge event with stands, funfare, airshows and much more!
Crazy Motocross show!
FUN!
Back home again we had a good meal before we ate the fancy fruit cake Tom's grandmum had made for him!
It was time to go, a relaxing weekend was over before it ever started. Thank you for a great time Tom :D