Homemade pizza

You need 2 hungry Germans and one Pole, a bit of patience (half an hour for the dough to grow) and a pinch of imagination to make leftovers from the fridge looking nice on the top.
What you definitly do NOT need to make pizza is the baking paper. It stuck to the dough and it was almost impossible to separate them. The fact that I'm writing this post proves that baking paper is not poisoning :-)

Lysfesten i Bergen

Lysfesten, a festival of lights celebrated 4 weeks before Christmas, has a very special atmoshpere. People with their families gather around a pond in the center of the city. The Christmas tree in the middle of pond and some neighbouring trees are decorated and illuminated. People hold torches and sing Christmas songs... Everything finalized of course with fireworks :-)

Two loose comments:

• for the first time in my life I have seen fireworks at 5p.m. :-)
• for the first time I have seen so many people in Bergen (and Norway) :-)

source: http://jpsfoto.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/lysfesten6.jpg

Two Poles more in England, just for a weekend

Almost 5 days in England: Oxford and London :-)
Very positive and intense days...

Great time with some good old friends:

Joanna - head of the most hostable family ever (Michal, thanks again for your room!!!!) and the best boyfriend ever in Abingdon.

The best boyfriend ever and Tomasz is Tate Modern.

Some good food: great buffet in Chinatown and Indian food on Brick Lane :-)

and some very good beer:


plus some 'extreme weather conditions' looking a bit like ordinary November weather in Bergen:
Great time, definitly too short though...

Very intense weekend of our friend

Our friend Pablo managed to finaly reach Bergen after ~12 hours of travel. Very brave and tireless traveler!!! Driving, flying, getting a bus and a train and one more time flying and... there he was on the Bergen Airport :-)

During this very intense and definitely too short visit we were able to:

• talk, talk, talk, probably also about you :-p,
• see some interesting/nice/ugly/old/ new places,
• drink very 'special' norwegian coffe in a souvenir shop. That was very 'unique' considering the fact, that most of the caffee bars are opened between May and September only...
• try different forms of fish and potatoes,
• taste some norwegian (and not only norwegian) beer,
• have fun,
• discuss the potentials of fitting norwegian landscape into the frame of the LPIS... no, just kidding!!!!

Very famous and exciting 'rock carvings' :-) 3000 years old Viking ship....
even if they look like drawings done by 6 years old Ingrid one month ago :-)

No, this is not the usuall view from our window. Photo taken from behind of the waterfall.

Bryggen (UNESCO haritage in Bergen) by night.

Dear Pablo, please, next time come for much longer and try to choose some faster way (that is not too difficult anyway ) :-)

Crash course of Norwegian culture ;-)

I will start a course of Norwegian on Wednesday :-)
Not only because of that I've spent some time digging on YouTube, trying to find out who is the most popular norwegian singer, band, actor etc.

Well, I have not found what I was looking for, but something even better :-)






...the typical norwegian costume = "grilldress" :D
... skal vi pule, da? = will we f..k then?



We have a sort of heavy metal neighbours next door and indeed sometimes they listen to some disco music :-)