And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Keeps the place "happy" thru long Winter darker days...bright colors, lights, candles inside...good for the psyche. When you have little sun 4 months out of the year you don't take it for granted...even parking the little ones outside in their carriages all bundled up (at the grocery, carriages are lined up out front while mom shops).
Bergen calls itself the biggest village in the world. Very apt description, as it does have the feel of a village. Spent many a month there over the last few decades.
Was in flight school (in Florida) with a kid from Norway . . . amatuer boxer, not that it matters. I asked him if he would go back to Norway after he got his ratings. "No!!! Too cold!"
40+ years in the Oil Patch. Been there, done that. In the morning, it'll be raining horizontally from the WEST (off the North Sea), then the weather will clock around during the day and in the afternoon it'll be snowing horizontally coming out of the East. Once was walking across the Platz when I passed a family of four garbed head-to-toe in bright yellow Halley Hansen Foul Weather Gear, going out for Walkies in a Blizzard. "There's no such thing as Bad Weather, only Bad Clothing." -Norwegian Saying
Anyone know why in Norway, Greenland, Iceland, etc.,--they paint dwellings garish colors?
ReplyDeleteMy theory is that is brightens up a dark and drab winter, which there in Bergen is very long.
DeleteKeeps the place "happy" thru long Winter darker days...bright colors, lights, candles inside...good for the psyche. When you have little sun 4 months out of the year you don't take it for granted...even parking the little ones outside in their carriages all bundled up (at the grocery, carriages are lined up out front while mom shops).
DeleteTo each his own, drab sucks.
DeleteLiving there under their communist govt ? Good luck..
ReplyDeleteRead up, the Norwegians are not commies. Center left more like it, not far left Marxists.
DeleteWould make a nice 1000 piece puzzle.
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Been there in the 80's as a young sailor. Beautiful town, and the women were ALL beautiful and spoke English!
ReplyDeleteBergen calls itself the biggest village in the world. Very apt description, as it does have the feel of a village. Spent many a month there over the last few decades.
ReplyDeleteI have a Norwegian friend that lived in Bergen for a year. It rained or snowed every day. He's in Southern California now.
ReplyDeleteWinters in Norway are way too long for my liking.
ReplyDeleteWas in flight school (in Florida) with a kid from Norway . . . amatuer boxer, not that it matters. I asked him if he would go back to Norway after he got his ratings. "No!!! Too cold!"
ReplyDelete40+ years in the Oil Patch. Been there, done that.
ReplyDeleteIn the morning, it'll be raining horizontally from the WEST (off the North Sea), then the weather will clock around during the day and in the afternoon it'll be snowing horizontally coming out of the East.
Once was walking across the Platz when I passed a family of four garbed head-to-toe in bright yellow Halley Hansen Foul Weather Gear, going out for Walkies in a Blizzard.
"There's no such thing as Bad Weather, only Bad Clothing." -Norwegian Saying