A bit of animation

I should study for the next week exam from Computer Graphics but instead I cleaned, washed, ironed and even went jogging!!!

Finally this morning I prepared all the books, opened the lecture notes and...

... returned to my laptop and created this animation:

P.S. 20C today in Bergen! It doesn't help when you have to study...

Course assingment

The final presentation of my work on the assignment from the Computer Graphics course :-)
I've spent loooong hours trying to program the application presented below but now I finally know that void is not a name of a very popular function in C++ :-)
Yes, I really thought so...
Anyway, here it is:

National Day

17th of May is a National Day in Norway. Originally it was celebrated with children's parades but nowadays one can find an extraordinary mixture of the parade members:

• soldiers and veterans:
  

• Neptun himself and the sirens:
  

• supporters of the new local tram line:

• beer-drinkers in kilts:
  

• representatives of the local cycling club:
  

• half-naked girls (believe me, it was coooolllllddddd):
  

• american footbal players:
  

• representatives of the Bergen Scottish Society:
  

• and many many others... :-)

All of them (except of the tourists and ... us!) wearing traditional norwegian costumes (no, not the sport dress :-), this time I mean bunads) or suits /smart dresses. Even dogs looked very ...formal... today:

I must say, I do not recall seeing so many national flags ever before.... even in the communists times in the 1st May obligatory parades in Poland!

Welcome to this world!

Today my closest cousin became Mum!!!

Our best CONGRATULATIONS to M&M !!!!

Witaj na świecie Zosieńko!

- bardzo dumna Ciocia :-)

White return...

Guess what I found on our balcony this morning....

V. in Bergen

V. came even before the tourist season started...

Bergen was getting ready for her (and maybe some other tourists) for some time already: building beer gardens,

bringing nice ships to the harbour:

And this year they even ordered several days of sunshine, just for V. :-)

We could not waste that rare opportunity and went to see the neighbourhood without fog and rain... It is actually .... lovely :-)

Western archipelago of Bergen

Way down from Veten

On the top of Fløyen

View from Veten, SW from Bergen ( No, it is not raining over Bergen!).

It was so good to spend some time with a person from our "Italian life": nice talks, good old jokes and many people to talk about ;-) Thanks for coming and hope to see you soon ! You are always welcome here :-)

Norwegian smoked salmons :-)

My father is a big fan of the Norwegian smoked salmons and whenever I come back home, I always bring one (big one) with me.

I also brought one (big one) on my way to Budapest (via Warszawa) and the wedding (see last post) so my father was more than happy about seeing me/salmon at home.

On the way back from Budapest, when I realised that will not be able to fly back to Bergen as it was planned and will have to wait a couple of days (ehhh, this sneaky Icelandic volcano...), I called home and said that I will come again for several days.

And than my Dad says: Oh great! You do have a smoked Norwegian salmon with you, right? Oh, you don't? Hmm... for how long you said you wanted to come?

wedding of M&C

Long time no news... but I have some good excuses:-)

Let's start from beginning:

Just before the famous Eyjafjallajokull volcano started to spit with its ashes I was lucky enough to fly to Warszawa, from where on Friday morning we were supposed to fly to Budapest for the long planned and awaited wedding of our friends.

So we are there, 5:30 a.m., at the Warszawa airport looking a bit suspicious on all the people queuing in an incredibly long queue. On the flight status board our flight is still fine, together with other 3 destinations. We check-in, go to the gate, very excited about the fact that we are so lucky to fly.... and one hour later our flight is also cancelled. ..

And so we are there, 8:30a.m., at the Warszawa airport, smoking cigarette and discussing possibilities: wait until tomorrow? car? train? give up? How far is Budapest? How long driving takes? How long it takes with a train? How expensive it will be?

Most of the questions were answered by my Father and TBBE's Sister, who, fortunately, know how to use Google, via Michelin etc...

And so we are there, 10:00a.m., at the LOT airlines customer office, waiting in a queue...

And so we are there, 10:45a.m., at the central train station in Warszawa, waiting in the longest queue I have ever seen at the public transport stations...

And so we are there, 12:15p.m., at the central train station in Warszawa, trying to understand from the schedule on displays where possibly should we look for the train from our brand new train tickets...

And so we are there, 12:45p.m., sitting in the train (old, polish train), surrounded by boring businessmen, speaking very loud and mostly English, feeling tired but excited about the longest train trip in our life (9:45h)...

And so we are there, 23:45p.m., just arrived to the hotel, greeting the Bride and Groom, who has just discovered that his family will not be able to reach Budapest... We were also missing other friends, stopped by the volcano...

Anyway, the wedding was gorgeous, M&C looked spectacular and we had a lot of fun together, including great food, drinks and dances:

And even a skype video conference with C's family :-)

M&C - again, thanks for everything!!! And all the best!!!

The way back to Warszawa took 11:45h:

In Japan trains reach 300km/h...