Foo Fighters in Oslo

Friday morning I drove all the way to Oslo to see my all time favourite band Foo Fighters! And what a night it was! Warming up with pizzas and beer at Jorun's house with a bunch of friends, before getting on the bus to Telenor Arena. For more than 2hrs the best band EVER entertained us all (22.000) and through 23 new and good old songs, me and Jorun was jumping up and down, singing and smiling:) Doesn't get better than this!

Super sweaty, happy and excited after the concert :)

A few others also wanted to catch the bus home..

St.Hans at Langenes (Midsummer)

I was so lucky that I got myself invited to Liv and Håkon's beautiful house by the sea for what we call St.Hans. Good company, amazing bbq food (big salad, chicken kebabs and homemade focaccia), sunny beautiful night (I think the sun went down around 23!!) and ofcours a big bonfire! 

Kiting and Camping in Denmark

I figured out I'd see how many stops I was able to get on my travel from Maui to Kristiansand, so after signing of and letting crew B take over the yardcaos on Challenger, I took my many bags and got on a train to Århus. In Århus I was picked up by Espen and Eivind (amazing timing by the way) and we headed West to the sea around Hvide Sande. Ingrid and JP had already checked in to our camping cabins and we were ready for a week of Danish hospitality, wind and camping life.

Too make it short: Great company, alot of barbequing, freezing weather, sunburn (!!), cold sea, big waves, some wind, fat guy on eletric bike, diablo and yoyo, yatzi, cardgames, scrabble, cheap red wine, waveboard, hot dogs, long breakfast, "sneijle" and danish bakeries :)

Ingrid, JP and Espen

Evind superexcited.. Me, very sceptical.. freezing..

All forgotten the minute I got on the water

Cruising on the surfboard

                         Circus school candidate 1..                                    Canditate 2

                                   Candidate 3                                                         Candidate 4

Ingrid, JP, me and Eivind

BBQ food!!

 

5 weeks, 3 flights, taxis, 4 weeks job, hotels, Challenger, train, car, camping, ferries, Maui, LA, New York, Hamburg, Aarhus, Hvide Sande, Hirtshals and I have finally arrived HOME in Kristiansand!!

Hamburg Summarized..

4 weeks in Hamburg.. it's been looong, but gone fast, it's been hard but alot of fun, it has been challenging but rewarding, it's been boring but interesting and most of all caotic!! We've had it all :) All in all a very good trip. 

Dimitry (one of my colleuges) took alot of awsome pictures throughout the stay and I'm being rude enough to put them on my picasa web album, so enjoy!!

Challenger in Hamburg

Nightlife in Hamburg

I must admit that the nightlife here in Hamburg is among the best I have ever experienced. Like anywhere you go it is also here, the people you go out with that make you night, or break your night. I am lukcy enough to have fallen into a great crew with alot of good people and I've made many friends already. Saturday is our big night out while in yard (since we can sleep in a little bit on sundays) so ofcourse we make the most out of it. It is funny how different it is going out with the different departments onboard :) All in all I have had sooo much fun here in Hamburg! (Sorry for crappy photos, not good camera on my Htc!!)

Night out at the beerhall with Navigation (Demis, Matt, Matt + Rebecca (Matt's wife)

Night out with the Gunner's.. that beer barrel was for our table...

Me and Matt loooooves... (haha, only in Germany do you have shops like that in the background)

McFlurry Magnum (almost like a ritual to go and have icecream every now and then..)

Me, Matt and Dimitry in our "sexy coctail bar" haha.

Tapas night!

Matt, Gareth and me on our way home from Tapas

Pimp my Ramform

We had a meeting today with one of the "big cheeses" of PGS, and he was talking about all the upgrades we are getting, the 3 million jobs that are being performed simultaniously onboard now and the 60 million dollar spent or whatever and he mentioned that last boat the went through the same operation was like pimp my Ramform :) Pretty funny and pretty true! We are getting so much nice and bright and cool stuff onboard! In the navigation desk we have no less than 24x24 inches screen + 2x44 inches.. we are buying Bose 7:1 speaker system to the instrumentroom (for entertainment only), cabins are being upgraded, galley is being renewed, a wall in the gym has been knocked out, new treadmill (hurray) etc etc. I think it will be pretty cool! Tried taking a few pictures from the caotic transformation, I also got a few nice pictures from Dimitri.

Me, Matt and Demis trying to remove Nortek head

Streamerdeck caos!!

Me and Gareth waiting for shipments to get onboard

Navigation department :)

Challenger and the city of Hamburg

View from Helideck

Beachbar on the way home from the yard. (notice CHA in the background:)

Out jogging

Hamburg's got this beautiful park that luckily is only 5min from my hotel. There are so many flowers in this park at the moment that the flower sent is almost too much! Definitly a better running park then the track in Sasebo, Japan! Friday I brought my camerea (phone) on my trip and took some pictures!

 There is also alot of pretty cool grafitti around the area. I came by these walls on my way back from the park. It is actually the wall of a nice hotel!