With apologies to my blog friends and followers all over the world for not being an active blogger lately, I here give you an update of what have been my consern during the last month of 2019 and the first in 2010.
The Christmas market Jul i Vinterland in Oslo has grown tremendously. It is however not our most wanted area during our urban life, but compared to other markets it must be classified as "good".
Our greatest experience and best Christmas gift this year was that our eldest daughter got a donated kidney in London. After many many years of knowing that only transplantation could save her life and the last 4 years in dialysis up to 3 - 4 times a week, everything went well and she is ready for Life 2.0.
Being an heart and kidney transplanted person for 22 years I once more give my sincere thanks to those who say "YES" to organ transplantation when the life of loved ones no longer is possible.
Being in London on hospital visit is one thing, but experience London befor christmas is also a nice experience. This is from Covent Garden.
Another place to visit was the Shard in Southwark where we has lunch at Oblix on the 32nd floor.
From the Shard we had a great view over the City og London with the Walkie-Talkie skyscraper at Fenchurch Street. A rainy day but that is normal in London in November too.
Together with friends and collegues at my old workingplace DNV Høvik for a Christmas lunchon is always a good start for the weeks before chrismas dinner etc.
After returning to Norway the Christmas preparations had focus. Being together with grandchildren had priority, and here we have a visitor from England (Helene) together with Maja and Mari (living in Norway) in the Winterland lights.
Around New year we took a few days in Milan and had a great time although the weather was really chilly. This image is from Piazza del Duomo with the fantastic cathedral and the shoppingg mall Galleria Vittorio Emaluele II. Shopping ? = Window shopping !
In the shopping mall there were also many restaurants with good "italian" food. This photo is from the bar at one of the oldest restaurants (1867) called Savini where I tasted my first Negroni. Has been repeated.
Coming around in Milan city is no problem. Everything are in walking distances, but using the many trams make it even better. The very old line uno (1) and line 2, 3, 4 and 12, took us to the most attractive areas.
One of the interresting areas was the Castello Sforzesco, the garden behind and the Arco della Pace.
Behind the Arch and to the right it is a short walk up to Chinatown where the very special Cantine Isola must ve visited. Lots of wines in any price group and if you want to taste one in the shelves, they say yes inmediately and open the bottle. The number of already opened bottles were nearly 50 when we made our visit..
The nightlife in Milan was not on our priorities, but late dinners we had both in the popular Brera area and along the Navigli canals like Navigli Pavese and Navigli Grande. This image is from The Darsena Docks
The people of Milan are very proud of the new-town area called Porta Nuova. Here is the Diamond Tower and below is the UniCredit tower with the antenna spire at 231 meters and floor 31 at 146 meters
We tried to visit the top floor, but that was impossible
A building that was qiute different from the othe new sky scrapers. The Vertical Forest tower makes an intreaguing error in all glass and concreate skylines.
Downtown again and a streetview in the neigbourhood of the Duomo and people all around.
It is impossible to visit Milan without shopping (at least window shopping) and although my Burberry trench coat is not like this, I like the photo.
A place that "everybody" have to visit is the Santa Maria delle Grazie and the Cenacolo Vinviano (the last supper). We came there on a Sunday and the museo was closed. Happy us. No long queue.
Then it is time to say goodbye to last decennium and welcome the new 2020. See you soon at Twitter, Instagram or Blogger for more information regarding our live here or there.
The Christmas market Jul i Vinterland in Oslo has grown tremendously. It is however not our most wanted area during our urban life, but compared to other markets it must be classified as "good".
Our greatest experience and best Christmas gift this year was that our eldest daughter got a donated kidney in London. After many many years of knowing that only transplantation could save her life and the last 4 years in dialysis up to 3 - 4 times a week, everything went well and she is ready for Life 2.0.
Being an heart and kidney transplanted person for 22 years I once more give my sincere thanks to those who say "YES" to organ transplantation when the life of loved ones no longer is possible.
Being in London on hospital visit is one thing, but experience London befor christmas is also a nice experience. This is from Covent Garden.
Another place to visit was the Shard in Southwark where we has lunch at Oblix on the 32nd floor.
From the Shard we had a great view over the City og London with the Walkie-Talkie skyscraper at Fenchurch Street. A rainy day but that is normal in London in November too.
Together with friends and collegues at my old workingplace DNV Høvik for a Christmas lunchon is always a good start for the weeks before chrismas dinner etc.
After returning to Norway the Christmas preparations had focus. Being together with grandchildren had priority, and here we have a visitor from England (Helene) together with Maja and Mari (living in Norway) in the Winterland lights.
Around New year we took a few days in Milan and had a great time although the weather was really chilly. This image is from Piazza del Duomo with the fantastic cathedral and the shoppingg mall Galleria Vittorio Emaluele II. Shopping ? = Window shopping !
In the shopping mall there were also many restaurants with good "italian" food. This photo is from the bar at one of the oldest restaurants (1867) called Savini where I tasted my first Negroni. Has been repeated.
Coming around in Milan city is no problem. Everything are in walking distances, but using the many trams make it even better. The very old line uno (1) and line 2, 3, 4 and 12, took us to the most attractive areas.
One of the interresting areas was the Castello Sforzesco, the garden behind and the Arco della Pace.
Behind the Arch and to the right it is a short walk up to Chinatown where the very special Cantine Isola must ve visited. Lots of wines in any price group and if you want to taste one in the shelves, they say yes inmediately and open the bottle. The number of already opened bottles were nearly 50 when we made our visit..
The nightlife in Milan was not on our priorities, but late dinners we had both in the popular Brera area and along the Navigli canals like Navigli Pavese and Navigli Grande. This image is from The Darsena Docks
The people of Milan are very proud of the new-town area called Porta Nuova. Here is the Diamond Tower and below is the UniCredit tower with the antenna spire at 231 meters and floor 31 at 146 meters
We tried to visit the top floor, but that was impossible
A building that was qiute different from the othe new sky scrapers. The Vertical Forest tower makes an intreaguing error in all glass and concreate skylines.
Downtown again and a streetview in the neigbourhood of the Duomo and people all around.
It is impossible to visit Milan without shopping (at least window shopping) and although my Burberry trench coat is not like this, I like the photo.
A place that "everybody" have to visit is the Santa Maria delle Grazie and the Cenacolo Vinviano (the last supper). We came there on a Sunday and the museo was closed. Happy us. No long queue.
Then it is time to say goodbye to last decennium and welcome the new 2020. See you soon at Twitter, Instagram or Blogger for more information regarding our live here or there.
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