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Toys Market Environment In China

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Toys Market Environment In China

The number of young kids under the age of 14 and infant, toddler and preschool in China is over 300,000,000, accounting for 25% of the whole population. Among them 80,000,000 live in the city, which form a large numbers of toy consumption.

The First Theft:

The first documented case of art theft was in 1473, when two panels of altarpiece of the Last Judgment by the Dutch painter Hans Memling were stolen. While the triptych was being transported by ship from the Netherlands to Florence, the ship was attacked by pirates who took it to the Gdansk cathedral in Poland. Nowadays, the piece is shown at the National Museum in Gdansk where it was recently moved from the Basilica of the Assumption. The Most Famous Theft: The most famous story of art theft involves one of the most famous paintings in the world and one of the most famous artists in history as a suspect. In the night of August 21, 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen out of the Louver. Soon after, Pablo Picasso was arrested and questioned by the police, but was released quickly.

It took about two years until the mystery was solved by the Parisian police. It turned out that the 30×21 inch painting was taken by one of the museum employees by the name of Vincenzo Peruggia, who simply carried it hidden under his coat. Nevertheless, Peruggia did not work alone. The crime was carefully conducted by a notorious con man, Eduardo de Valfierno, who was sent by an art faker who intended to make copies and sell them as if they were the original painting.

While Yves Chaudron, the art faker, was busy creating copies for the famous masterpiece, Mona Lisa was still hidden at Peruggias apartment. After two years in which Peruggia did not hear from Chaudron, he tried to make the best out of his stolen good. Eventually, Peruggia was caught by the police while trying to sell the painting to an art dealer from Florence, Italy. The Mona Lisa was returned to the Louver in 1913.

The Biggest Theft in the USA:

The biggest art theft in United States took place at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. On the night of March 18, 1990, a group of thieves wearing police uniforms broke into the museum and took thirteen paintings whose collective value was estimated at around 300 million dollars. The thieves took two paintings and one print by Rembrandt, and works of Vermeer, Manet, Degas, Govaert Flinck, as well as a French and a Chinese artifact.

As of yet, none of the paintings have been found and the case is still unsolved. According to recent rumors, the FBI are investigating the possibility that the Boston Mob along with French art dealers are connected to the crime.

The Scream:

The painting by Edvard Munchs, The Scream, is probably the most sought after painting by art thieves in history. It has been stolen twice and was only recently recovered. In 1994, during the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, The Scream was stolen from an Oslo gallery by two thieves who broke through an open window, set off the alarm and left a note saying: thanks for the poor security.

Three months later, the holders of the painting approached the Norwegian Government with an offer: 1 million dollars ransom for Edvard Munchs The Scream. The Government turned down the offer, but the Norwegian police collaborated with the British Police and the Getty Museum to organize a sting operation that brought back the painting to where it belongs.

Ten years later, The Scream was stolen again from the Munch Museum. This time, the robbers used a gun and took another of Munchs painting with them. While Museum officials waiting for the thieves to request ransom money, rumors claimed that both paintings were burned to conceal evidence. Eventually, the Norwegian police discovered the two paintings on August 31, 2006 but the facts on how they were recovered are not known yet.

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LEFT: Portuguese football player Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid poses beneath a statue of himself during the unveiling ceremony in his hometown in Funchal, Portugal on 21 December 2014. RIGHT: Former soccer star Diego Maradona poses in front of his statue, commissioned as a tribute by a group of fans, at the Boca Juniors Museum (Museo de la Pasion Boquense), in La Bombonera stadium, Buenos Aires on 26 November 2006. The 2.2-metres statue weighs 300kg.

Coup de Tete, a 5-metre statue by Algerian-born French artist Adel Abdessemed commemorating the headbutt French footballer Zinedine Zidane gave Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the final of the 2006 Fifa World Cup is removed from Doha's corniche in Qatar on 30 October 2013 after local Islamists objected to it as a work of anti-Islam idolisation. It is now on display in the Arab Museum of Modern Art.

LEFT: A man kisses a statue of soccer star Lionel Messi shortly after its unveiling in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Tuesday 28 June 2016. Fans, players, Argentina's President Mauricio Macri and the country's greatest player Diego Maradona have asked the Argentine Messi to reconsider his decision to resign from the national team after losing the Copa America final to Chile. RIGHT: Former Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder David Beckham poses beside his newly unveiled statue at the Legends Plaza in Carson, California on 2 March 2019.

Spectators take photos of a new statue of Spain's Rafael Nadal on day two of the French Open tennis tournament at Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France on Monday 31 May 2021.

LEFT: A picture shows the Ayrton Senna memorial monument in the mineral water park near the Enzo et Dino Ferrari Autodromo in Imola, on October 29, 2020, ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Emilia Romagna. MIDDLE: Statue of Olympic champion Fanny Blankers Koen (1918-2004) in Rotterdam, Holland. She was the first woman to win four Olympics gold medals. RIGHT: hA statue of Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie (1912-1969) in Frognerparken, Oslo.

Tiger Woods unveils a bronze statue of himself with his late father Earl Woods, at the Tiger Woods Learning Center while announcing the launch of a nationwide youth programme called the "Fist Pump Challenge" in Anaheim, California on 21 January 2008.

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Saturday in Lillehammer!

On Saturday morning, we tried to be out the door of the Oslo apartment by around 8:30 in the morning, so that we could get to Lillehammer by 11:00 a.m., so Eric could do his packet pick-up for his race: the Berkenbeinerlopet Half Marathon. We managed to come pretty close to that departure time. Not too long after we left Oslo, there were some bathroom needs and our car also needed gas. So, we stopped, used the facilities, and filled up the car, and it cost $80 to put ¾ of a tank of gas in the car! We knew it would be expensive, but this was kind of a reckoning. Eric was trying to get just the bare minimum to get by, to get the car to and from Lillehammer, and then back to Gothenburg, for the car to get on the boat and be shipped back to the U.S. Eric asked, “Did Volvo tell us a bare minimum amount of gas we had to have in the car to put it on the boat?” And they hadn’t, so bare minimum it was. So, we made our way north to Lillehammer and we were driving past what we later learned was the largest lake in Norway, and it was so beautiful. The countryside there was so gorgeous. There was, as I mentioned in a previous post, a lot of highway construction, so that slowed us down a bit. Once we got to the check-in area for the Birken Run Festival, Eric said he was actually getting nervous. There were sooooo many people there. The woman manning (womanning? managing? womanaging?) the parking lot took pity on us because we had no cash, so she let us go in, park, and then hang out with Eric until the race started. It was quite warm, like in the high 70s or low 80s, and as we were waiting on the other side of the barrier before the start, we were talking of the two of the race staff members and they told Eric, “be ready for mud!” They were really nice. One of them, the older one, had a son currently studying in the U.S. (in Pennsylvania) on a Rotary International exchange program. Our friend Ryley mention that a few of Roar’s relatives are doing that now too – and that we should totally consider it when the kids get older, since Rowan and Cece both have declared that they want to live in Norway (I am not honestly sure how they’d handle the darkness in winter, but perhaps when they’re teenagers, we can find out, if they do such program. Anyway, a long time off . . .) The other race staff guy told the kids and I some things to do nearby while the race was underway, like the Maihaugen, which is a museum that shows what life was like in Norway through the ages, and has reenactments, etc. Turns out we didn’t have time for much in our two hours, though we went over to the Maihaugen, which shared a facility with the Postal Museum and the Olympic Museum. And we had lunch in their café. We also saw some really nicely dressed wedding guests arriving for a wedding that was going to be on those museum grounds somewhere. At least one of them was wearing the Norwegian national costume (which I’ve seen Ryley’s daughter in, in photos) and we saw a few people on the street in Oslo wearing it, going somewhere in a hurry on Friday evening, and Ryley speculated that those people were probably heading to a wedding, because people often wear that then, or when acting in some official capacity, like to had out awards. So, we did see more women in the national costume, three of them to be exact, at the awards ceremony at the Birken Run Festival. They were accompanied by a super funny dad-and-son, or grandad-and-grandson, music duo who played classics for awards ceremonies like “We are the Champions” and the Rocky theme, on a keyboard (dad) and drums (son). Anyway, while Eric was running we also went down to Lillehammer’s town center and the main street, and there was some festival going on there too. We went into a drug store and a thrift store and almost got ice cream, but didn’t. The thrift store was nice, and I had wanted to go into a few on this trip, and haven’t had time. The one in Lillehammer had a few casseroles from the 80s that were the milk-glass base with decals, like Pryex, but not as nice-looking. There was a set of tea cups and a platter by Turi Design, which I have a few pieces of in a different pattern. So, we left the thrift store empty-handed, but it was nice to pop in for a minute. It was so difficult getting parking to go meet Eric after the race, but after driving around a while, I lucked out, someone was leaving, and we parked half on the sidewalk like hundreds of others, and went in to Haakons Hall and met him. The end of the race was at the base of the ski jump facility, which was used during the Olympics. It is really staggering to see from the ground! The people who were arriving after finishing race were covered in mud, from the knees down, and I saw people in long lines to get hosed off. We met up with Eric, checked out his certificate of completion, ate some chips that he’d been given, and then walked around a bit more, and then got back to the car and made for heading out of town, pretty quickly. It was just so busy there and really pretty hot. So, we found a place on that huge lake (Mjøsa), as we left the central city area, where Eric could jump in the lake. And we came across a family from Romania and two women from Oslo who were doing the same thing (well, the Romanians were just sunning, but the Norwegians were planning to hop in the lake, too). So, the kids got all suited up, too, water wings and all, and they went out on the dock (after talking to a local who said this was a totally legit place to swim and he had earlier in the day). Eric hopped in, swam out just barely, and then came back, declaring that that might’ve been the coldest water he’s been in, colder that the Irish Sea and colder than in Iceland or the Baltics. He said it was probably in the 50s and actually hurt his feet and legs. But, the kids wanted to give it a try! Both actually got in. Rowan only for a few seconds, not even a long enough plunge to get up to his neck wet, and Cece got all the way wet and was crying for the seconds it took to get back to the dock but that transformed into laughing as she was climbing out, accompanied by declarations that it wasn’t really cold at all. The kids both slept for part of the ride home, Cece for more time than Rowan, but they both got some good Zs in. Ryley texted me while we were en route to say they were firing up the grill and we were welcome over, but we were still a few hours away, but it turned out that we *did* go over there, grilled some salmon and veggies, and the kids got to play some more. After we parked down their street, right in front of the Meny grocery store, Eric took the kids right over, so Rowan could get his tree-climbing immediately out of his system and get the picture he didn’t get to have the previous time, and so by the time I got there after buying salmon and potatoes, he’d already come down from the tree, much to my relief. We were not sure how much it would cost to buy salmon, since Norwegian prices are notoriously high, but when I did the conversation, it was $12 for four fillets, so I thought that was pretty reasonable. It was farmed salmon, but the farms are in the cold Nordic waters off of the Bergen side, though Ryley and Roar told us prices were expected to rise because a lot of those farms had just been besieged by red tide, and that was really tanking their whole crop of salmon. But, anyway, the salmon we bought was delicious and the time we had with Ryley and Roar visiting, while the kids got alllll of their energy out playing, was really nice. Such a highlight of our Scandinavian adventure.

We got home after 9 p.m. and tried to get the kids right to bed, but again, it took some doing. We did one more load of laundry, so I stayed up while that washed (so I could hang it) and so I finally got to sleep around midnight, but by doing that, I got to see the beautiful pink sky over the building behind our apartment building, with the stones on the top of their chimneys (a phenomenon that we’ve tried to find the reason for, and it might have something to do with Norse trolls).

The next morning we would be leaving Oslo, waaaaa!

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Historical Places in Norway

When visiting Norway, you will be inundated with historic landmarks. The country is home to mountains, glaciers, and deep coastal fjords. Oslo’s capital city is a green oasis with museums, and you can view preserved 9th century Viking ships at the Viking Ship Museum. Alternatively, head to Bergen, which features quaint wooden houses and colorful boats. Skiing in Norway is world-class, with several Olympic resorts, including Lillehammer.

Odd Fellows Block

The Odd Fellows block is the oldest building in Kristiansand. The building dates back to 1848 and has undergone several renovations. It originally consisted of two separate blocks connected by a glass front in the 1980s. The Odd Fellows was a fraternal service organization based its beliefs on truth, love, and friendship. This organization was formed to help improve society, and its roots can be traced back to 18th century England, where it was considered odd to organize to help others.

The Odd Fellows Block was constructed after a fire destroyed several nearby buildings in 1893. It was built with the third floor for ceremonies of the fraternal Order. It has since been used for many businesses and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There is a large theater area on the second floor that is currently being renovated. Despite the challenges of the restoration process, it remains one of the oldest buildings in Norway.

James Montgomery wrote the Odd Fellows’ Keepsake song in 1788. The first surviving printed record of an English lodge was from 1748, and it shows that there were eight other lodges in the country at that time. The songs are also important symbols of the Order and its mission, which was to improve the conditions of humanity and improve the world. So, why not visit the Odd Fellows’ block in Norway?

Norway Opera House

The Norwegian National Ballet and the Norwegian Opera perform at the Norwegian Opera House, the country’s national opera theatre. The Oslo Opera House is situated in the Bjrvika district of central Oslo, at the head of the Oslofjord. Its sweeping views of the mountains and fjord make it an excellent location for a concert. However, the Opera House is also a perfect place for afternoon tea. Visitors are welcome to view the productions during their visit.

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Skigard Hytte, Kvitfjell, Lillehammer

Skigard Hytte, Norwegian Cabin Architecture, Scandinavian Holiday Home Building, Lillehammer Images

Skigard Hytte in Lillehammer, Norway

12 September 2021

Mies van der Rohe Award 2022 Nomination

This Norwegian cabin building is one of 85 new works to have been added to the list of the projects nominated to the EU Mies Award 2022.

29 Sep 2020

Skigard Hytte

Design: Mork-Ulnes Architects

Location: Kvitfjell, Lillehammer, Norway

Casper and Lexie Mork-Ulnes (Mork-Ulnes Architects) have recently completed Skigard Hytte, a mountain cabin for themselves and their children in Kvitfjell, a ski resort in Norway that was developed for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.

Perched upon the ledge of a steep mountain and framing panoramic views of the valley and river below, the cabin connects to the ground lightly, protecting both the natural terrain and the occasional sheep taking refuge from the weather underneath the house. Its architecture references elements of the local vernacular tradition, reinterpreting them in a rational and inventive project

Skigard Hytte is the first ground-up project that Casper and Lexie Mork-Ulnes have built for their own family. They met 20 years ago on a ski trip and have always shared a love for the mountains, snow, and skiing. They lived in San Francisco and relocated to Oslo in 2011, where they converted a former billiards room in a castle into their residence. With two kids, Lucia (13) and Finn (11), and dog Lupo, they decided to build themselves a cabin in the mountains where they can fully embrace the outdoors-lifestyle of Norway.

After securing a 2,000-square meter site in Kvitfjell ski resort, with sweeping views of the valley, Casper and Lexie began to give shape to the retreat they had always wanted for themselves: the main dwelling with a guest annex, and giving every room a view out. Familiarizing themselves with the unique qualities of the site while camping and being awoken by cows and sheep at their tent’s door, the architects decided to give the house an unusual but straightforward configuration; by lifting it on thin CLT legs and allowing the grass and sheep to remain below, they also created a raised viewing platform above the nature. The location of the cabin gives the family the opportunity to leave directly on skis to reach for the slopes or the shops and restaurants.

An architect’s house can afford to be a laboratory for ideas, a crucible of invention. Casper and Lexie allowed themselves to push the boundaries and experiment with design and material strategies that clients might not have the appetite to test.

In the midst of the ski slopes Located on the west side of Kvitfjell, 45 minutes north of Lillehammer, the cabin designed by Mork-Ulnes Architects is situated 943 meters above sea level, nearly at the top of the mountain (1.039 meters). Its high altitude means the cabin is exposed to severe winter weather, at times being socked in and at times floating peacefully above the clouds in the valley below.

From November until April, one can put on downhill skis and reach the local market to go grocery shopping, returning home using the lifts. On cross country skis one can connect to hundreds of kilometers of trails, reaching country lodges to rest and warm up. In the summer time it’s possible to hike from the cabin to the top of Kvitfjell (which means White Mountain in Norwegian) in about 20 minutes, or reach one of the many streams and lakes for swimming and fishing.

Reinventing the vernacular The project is a site specific response to the context and the cultural landscape. It stands as an example of how architecture can convey past knowledge into the present, creating an affective link with the built landscape.

“We took great care in studying the rural vernacular and analyzing local building typologies as we wanted to fully understand what their forms accomplished functionally and how they shaped the local architectural culture.” Casper Mork-Ulnes

The exterior cladding of the cabin is made of skigard, a 3 meter long quarter cut log that is traditionally laid out diagonally by Norwegian farmers as fencing. While referencing rural architecture, the rough facade makes the cabin fit in within the rugged landscape and forested vegetation. In the winter when the gaps in the skigard siding fill with snow, the house is given a new and softer expression.

The grass top of the cabin also recalls the traditional sod roofs, common on rural log houses in Scandinavia until the late 19th century. Listed by the local planning regulations as one of the few materials allowed for roofs (in addition to slate or wood), the fuzzy top, moving with the wind, helps soften the otherwise rigid rectilinear geometry of the cabin.

The cabin has a regular plan – an enfilade sequence of rooms in a row, following a central corridor – called Trønderlån in the Trøndelag region of Norway where Casper’s mother was born

Life within, life underneath Mork-Ulnes Architects wanted a house that connected to the ground lightly and allowed natural terrain to remain underneath. “The land had a pathway that the animals used to cross and access the steep hillside below, which is still the path to the house. Now the sheep stand under the house in the summer months to protect themselves from the weather.” Lexie Mork-Ulnes

The architects have designed several other buildings on piers or raised foundations, like Moose Road (constructed on steel stilts to avoid severing tree roots) and Trollhus (lifted on concrete legs to protect it from snow), where they learned that it was an effective way of dealing with high snowdrifts and not needing to shovel the house out when the snow accumulates around doors and windows.

Here, they decided to raise the cabin not just to have some protection from the elements while maximizing natural light and views, but also because they didn’t want to ruin the terrain with the earthwork required for a conventional foundation.

A notable feature of the house is that every surface is clad in wood. The unconventional roughness of the exterior log Skigard siding is matched by an almost wholly homogenous interior space where light and smooth solid pine paneling creates an intimate and cosy feel, offering few distractions to take the eyes away from nature outside. All of the cabinetry and custom furniture is made of three-layer cross-laminated pine sheets. The all-wood materiality also creates a unique wooden olfactory quality to the house.

“We were hesitant to have any non-wood materials exposed, so the shower walls and floors, toilet flush plates, ventilation plates, and even the refrigerator handles were crafted of wood (Furu or Norwegian Pine). The sauna is clad in Osp (Aspen wood).” Lexie Mork-Ulnes

The program. The program was to have a three-bedroom cabin plus sauna and an annex that gave guests private space to retreat. Deferring to the natural landscape all around, Skigard Cabin engages the outdoors in a spectacular fashion. Two facing 6 meter-long floor-to-ceiling walls of glass provide the open-plan living, kitchen and dining area with a grand vista, creating the experience of being outside, exposed to the ever-changing scenery. The large southoriented glass wall allows low winter sun to illuminate the house during the day. In addition to the glass walls, a skylight at the apex of the frustum ceiling channels natural light into the living areas.

The first approach to the house is walking up the stairs to the veranda, where one first experiences the spectacular view through a portal clad in heart pine.

There are two doors on either side of the portal which open to the main house (left) or guest annex (right). Upon entry to the main house, one finds a hallway with direct access to a mud room where one can remove outer layers of clothing and shoes and enter the house. Under the first frustum skylight, the entry hallway also accesses the childrens’ two compact bedrooms and bath.

After walking through the compression of the hallway space, one walks back into nature finding a room composed of two long walls of glass – with views of the valley and ski slopes on one side and woods and meadow on the other. The great room houses the main communal space containing kitchen, lounge and dining area. At the end of the great room one finds the master suite – with bathroom and sauna.

On the other side of the veranda, the guest annex contains a bedroom, bathroom, spacious lounge area, and sleeping loft. This cabin in Norway, with its extraordinary rationality and its ability to redefine the relationship with the snowy fields and with nature, represents yet another opus in Mork-Ulnes Architects’ coherent portfolio of works.

MUA’s designs testify to the office’s strong bicultural mentalities: a blend of Scandinavian straightforward practicality and Californian openness to innovation. Casper and Lexie Mork-Ulnes prove once again their ability to design projects where the ideas of the architect and the interior designer are distilled and refined in perfect balance. The Skigard Hytte project witnesses this quality where a careful attention to the interiors becomes one with the general architectural composition.

Mork-Ulnes Architects

With offices in San Francisco and Oslo, Mork-Ulnes Architects is the recipient of Architectural Record’s 2015 Design Vanguard Award and was named by the Norwegian National Museum as one of “the most noteworthy young architects in Norway” (Under 40. Exhibition, 2013). Mylla Cabin, a retreat they completed in the Norwegian forest, was nominated in November 2018 for The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.

Rigorous and concept-driven, the practice is based on built work that is both playful and restrained, and informed by economies of means and materials. Since its founding by Casper Mork-Ulnes in 2005, Mork-Ulnes Architects have worked on a large range of projects including master plans, mixed-use buildings, ground up residences and 100 square foot cabins, and have built on 3 continents. Current projects include: a master plan for a new community in the California Sierras; a mixed-use, waterfront community in the Bay Area; a cross- laminated timber home in Oregon; a surf cabin in Brazil; and a 90,000 sf mixed-use building in Norway.

Design: Mork-Ulnes Architects

Photography: Bruce Damonte

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Northern Europe Trip - 9 Days

** The trip was revised on 06/19/2021 **

Northern Europe Trip - 9 days

August 14 (Sun) ~ August 22 (Mon)

Start in Copenhagen and end in Helsinki! With the Discovery tour Capitals of Scandinavia. The tour includes accommodation, an expert guide, meals, transport and more.

*** Destinations: Copenhagen (Denmark) Oslo (Norway) Stockholm (Sweden) Helsinki (Finland)

Live a little lagom and travel to northern Europe's historic, stylish and cosmopolitan cities on this fairy-tale Scandinavia tour. You'll learn about the area's Viking history, why Helsinki is the capital of cool and dine amidst the former hunting and fishing grounds of Swedish kings.

Day 1: Welcome to Copenhagen Day 2: Explore Historic Copenhagen Day 3: Journey to Oslo Day 4: Vikings and More in Oslo Day 5: Onwards to Stockholm Day 6: Discover Beautiful Stockholm Day 7: Embark on an Overnight Cruise Day 8: Arrive in Vibrant Helsinki Day 9: Farewell Scandinavia

*** Trip cost: $2,725 per person ***

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*** What’s Included: *Twin shared hotel room. If you are a solo traveler, you will be matched with a fellow traveler of the same gender. *Guide: An expert Travel Director and professional Driver. *Transport: Air-conditioned coach. Any public transport used as part of the tour (excludes free days). *Meal: 8 breakfasts and 3 dinners are included. *Additional Services: Explore Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm and Helsinki with a Local Specialist Visit Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo and the City Hall in Stockholm View the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen and Finlandia Hall in Helsinki See Børsen, Christiansborg Palace and Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen, Akershus, the Royal Palace and the Opera House in Oslo, Storkyrkan, Riddarholmen Church and the Royal Palace in Stockholm, the Sibelius Monument, the Olympic Stadium and the Opera House in Helsinki Overnight Cruise from Sweden to Finland Scenic Cruise across the Baltic Sea Connect with Locals Indulge in an eco-friendly organic dining experience featuring home-grown produce sourced from within Stockholm's Djurgarden Park, the former hunting and fishing grounds of Swedish kings. (Day 6) Dive into Culture Visit the Stockholm City Hall, with its spire featuring the golden Three Crowns. You'll have an opportunity to visit one of the city's most famous landmarks. (Day 6) Stays with Stories Step into decades of Danish history and in the footsteps of aristocrats and royals when you stay at the 17th-century Phoenix Hotel in Copenhagen. (Day 1) Audio Headsets for flexible sightseeing Daily breakfast and up to half your evening meals Ferry from Helsingør to Helsingborg Cherry-picked hotels, all tried and trusted Optional Experiences and free time All porterage and restaurant gratuities Must-see sightseeing and surprise extras An expert Travel Director and professional Driver All hotel tips, charges and local taxes

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Day 1: Welcome to Copenhagen Hans Christian Andersen would have been right at home in 21st-century Copenhagen. The Danish capital hasn't lost any of its fairy-tale flair over the centuries, as you'll come to discover when you spend your first day exploring this colourful city. On arrival, transfer to your Stays With Stories accommodation, the historic Phoenix Hotel in the heart of Copenhagen's most elegant district. Discover the hotel's rich history from the late 17th century, through the World Wars and today, restored to its former glory. Then, spend your free time soaking up the sunshine with the fun-loving locals before joining your Travel Director and fellow travellers for a Welcome Reception. Day 2: Explore Historic Copenhagen Connect with the heartfelt hygge of your Danish hosts when you join a Local Specialist this morning for a sightseeing tour that will reveal all the highlights of Copenhagen's Old Town. See the distinctive dragon-tail spire of the 17th-century Børsen (Stock Exchange), Christiansborg Palace and the Little Mermaid, demurely seated on a rock overlooking Langelinie Promenade. See the home of Denmark's beloved royal family, Amalienborg Palace, then spend the rest of the day exploring Copenhagen your way. Enjoy a cold øl overlooking the colourful façades of Nyhavn or perhaps join an Optional Experience to the Danish Riviera, past ancient fishing villages to the 17th-century Frederiksborg Castle. Day 3: Journey to Oslo For now, it's a fond farvel to Copenhagen and a bright and cheery hej to Sweden, as you cross the Øresund by ferry and wind your way north, through the Swedish countryside past Gothenburg to Norway. You'll want to keep your camera at the ready to capture the scenic landscapes that line your route to Oslo, Norway's down-to-earth capital, where the Norwegian philosophy of friluftsliv can be felt along the flower-lined boulevards and bustling waterfront promenades. Day 4: Vikings and More in Oslo Tread in the footsteps of the Vikings this morning as you join your Local Specialist for a sightseeing tour that will reveal Oslo's long-standing seafaring heritage. See the medieval fortress of Akershus, the elegant Royal Palace and Oslo Opera House, which seems to rise up from the water in all its marble, granite and glass glory. Visit a wonderland of Norwegian sculptures left behind by Gustav Vigeland in his sculpture park, then enjoy a free afternoon to explore the city on your terms. You could choose instead to embark on an Optional Experience to see the three original Viking long-ships at the Viking Ship Museum and delve into Roald Amundsen's spontaneous race to the South Pole at the Fram Museum. Day 5: Onwards to Stockholm Enjoy a scenic drive south through Norway's lush forest landscapes to Sweden, bound for its enchanting capital. You'll journey through Karlstad situated on Lake Vänern, the largest lake in Sweden, and pass Örebro, with its 13th-century castle, before continuing to Stockholm. Indulge in a free evening to explore 'Beauty on Water', as the locals refer to their capital. Consider joining an Optional Experience to the cobbled Gamla Stan to admire its medieval history on a walking tour, followed by a traditional Swedish meal in a local restaurant. Day 6: Discover Beautiful Stockholm Style and substance are things Stockholm has in abundance, as you'll discover when you join your Local Specialist for a sightseeing tour this morning. See Stockholm's historic mother church, Storkyrkan, and the Royal Palace, then Dive Into Culture and visit the City Hall. You'll have some free time this afternoon to join the locals for their afternoon fika (coffee break) and embrace the Swedish philosophy of lagom before joining your fellow travellers at an exclusive eco-friendly Be My Guest experience and Connect With Locals over dinner amidst the former hunting and fishing grounds of Swedish kings. Day 7: Embark on an Overnight Cruise A leisurely start to your day could see you embark on some last-minute souvenir shopping or savouring steaming sweet Swedish cinnamon rolls in Stortoget. Consider an Optional Experience to the Vasa Museum. The cool capital of Finland beckons as you board your overnight cruise to Helsinki, passing through Stockholm's archipelago as you watch the sun set over the Baltic Sea. Day 8: Arrive in Vibrant Helsinki Continue your cruise across the Baltic, arriving in Helsinki in time to join your Local Specialist for a sightseeing tour of all the city's highlights, its Swedish and Russian heritage and some hidden gems. See the modern marble façades of Finlandia Hall, the Senate and the colourful stalls in Market Square before joining your fellow travellers for a Farewell Dinner. Raise a glass of aquavit and toast to your epic adventure across the capitals of Scandinavia. Kippis! Day 9: Farewell Scandinavia After a memorable journey exploring the history and culture of four Scandinavian nations, all that's left is to say a fond farewell to your new friends and prepare for your return journey home. Find out more about your free airport transfer at trafalgar.com/freetransfers.

*Airfare from and to the US, Insurance, Visa fees, optional excursions, optional activities, and services are not included in the trip cost.

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July 1 AM- July 3 Mid afternoon

After breakfast we headed out to the Olympic Museum, a short walk from our hotel,we though. It was a bit longer than we anticipated but we didn't have any problems. It was an interesting museum and overwhelmingly about the Norwegian Olympic team and the Olympics in general. After that we heading towards the Olympic Park and got to what was the athletes Village they have been turned into an apartment complex and hotel. We were going to walk up to the upper reaches of the park and perhaps take a ski lift to the top but it proved to be more of an uphill trek than we thought so we just went back to the hotel after having a lunch break near the park. We took the car and drove to the Norwegian Road Museum, which is free, We wanted to look at history of tunnel making in Norway since we have driven through 500 miles of so of tunnels. We were lucky and got her own private guide because we were the only speaking English speaking people there. She was a nice young lady who lives in Oslo and is working there as a summer job. She's actually mining engineer student who will be mining minerals around Norway, one of which is a black granite that went pulverised turns completely white and is the basis for a lot of coloring like paints and materials. It’s titanium oxide. She gave us a detailed tour of 240 meter long tunnel that basically goes from using wood to heat the rocks so they crack open all the way along to the modern drilling machines that are used to drill large tunnels. I explained to her that the wood was making the water “boil” in the rocks and the steam in breaking them open. She wasn't aware that that was the process period. She thanked me for teaching her something. In the 18th century,it took a lot of wood and it was really dangerous to breathe all the smoke but they did what they had to do make tunnels, because you just couldn’t build roads normally in such ricky conditions along the fjords. They kept developing better methods and ways to reduce black lung disease because they were drilling through silica and even asbestos rocks. It was quite an eye opener because for many years they had no ventilation shafts to bring clean air into the tunnels. This day was a relaxing, recharge the batteries day, so we went back to the hotel to have coffee and cake, which turned out this time to be a single waffle maker and several jams and jellies to put on your waffle. we waited a bit long one family to make my three waffles, one for each person and we made a single waffle for two of us while a Dutch lady was waiting for us to finish. We had a very short conversation but didn't sit together. That evening at dinner on the second trip to the buffet I asked the Dutch couple to join us for the rest of the meal. We had a good long conversation. They have travelled all over America and parts of Canada. In one trip they drove over 7000 miles in 35 days and saw much of the west coast, including,Arizona, Washington state, Idaho and Oregon They have seen many national parks. This trip was in 1977.we talked for at least an hour and a half maybe longer. they have children living in America and Germany.I gave them my card in case they come back and they said they can’t come back to America because of the man we have as president. I did not get into a long discussion. I just said well he's our president and we can vote the “bum” out in three more years, if we want to. I gave them my card anyway and Peter gave me his. He's a retired comptroller and his wife had to take over her father's car dealership and repair shop when she was 20 because he died suddenly of cancer. She built it up for 20 years and her two younger brothers who became of age at that time took over and continued to run the business. Her portion of the buyout was apparently enough for her to do what she wanted to do. She started to, and is still, volunteering to coordinate people going to stay in elderly homes at night. It’s all volunteer work. She still does it and says she probably always will. We said goodbye after dinner because we had to get up early and drive to Oslo to turn in our car.

July 2

We got to the airport using GPS and dead reckoning. After returning the car, we went into the terminal to find a cab to our hotel. Luckily for us, a family was departing that day and rode the elevator with us. They told us to go to the information Booth and get a fixed price taxi because it might cost over 1000 krone if we just picked a taxi out of the line. Sometimes life just hands you a gift without you asking. We did and a taxi came that had the number on our ticket. We got to our hotel only 699 Krone. We were very early so we got an open room and walked around a little bit for some sightseeing. We a couple of options for dinner selected a place near the hotel This restaurant had biggest, most complete Caesar salad we have ever seen. It had three small chicken breast portions, perfectly prepared and I would say at least a quarter pound or more of bacon with the right amount of dressing and croutons. It was delicious and was paired perfectly with a good pilsner. There was a group of Jehovah Witnesses attending a convention in Oslo sitting at a table beside us, three of them were from Alabama. One couple was from Norway and one gentleman lives a thousand kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. We talked a little bit, took some pictures and headed back to the hotel. They didn't even try to convert us. The room we had was very small and I wasn't sure it was what we had paid for because she gave us something that was available before traditional check-in time.

July 3

I went down in the morning to tell him we had booked and paid for a king room and I wanted to know if we had gotten what we paid for. The on duty clerk was very helpful and said most of the rooms were queen size and that's what we had last night. I said I'd booked a king room and wondered if we could have one of those today. After a leg]lengthy, discussion I found out that the king-size room is the same size as a queen bed room only with a king bed which made less total space. He said he would work on it when he his boss came in and we could check back after breakfast. They said the king and queen size rooms are the same. If we wanted a bigger bed, we could move next door to a king bed. I explained that it wasn't the size of the bed especially but it was the size of the room which was too small and that I thought we had paid for a larger room. It turns out booking confirmation haad no square footage on the size of the room. They finally said they can give us a larger room, but it will be 500 krones extra, per day. I said no, I don't want to do that. They spoken with a bit in Norwegian and said how about 300 for an executive room and I said ok. It's really a suite with the couch, a larger bathroom, really nice coffee maker etc for only $35 more per night. I told her I liked her negotiating skills because she new 300 Krones for something empty was better than 500 krones and she has an empty room. It is a really good deal for us and we moved right after breakfast. I'm posting this now before we go on our evening cruise in the fjord with a prawn buffet dinner. I'll post more tomorrow about today's activities and try to get some pictures uploaded as well.

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Every four years, they come from Norway to plunder your gold

By Chuck Culpepper, Washington Post, February 9, 2018

DAEGWALLYEONG, South Korea--If you surmise that your Olympic nation is as strong or as cool as Norway, then you are suffering some sort of delusion. In your defense, it’s not like the Norwegians sit around up at the 59th parallel crowing about being the greatest. They just come to the harder, hardier version of Olympics, the Winter Games, bring along their majestic lungs and return home with medals by bushels.

They probably pay the odd baggage fee.

They have merely 5.3 million citizens yet a global all-time lead with 329 winter medals, making them a medals-per-capita Godzilla. In the first Winter Olympics, they led the medal table in Chamonix, France, in 1924, and in the most recent Winter Olympics, they finished third in medals and tied for first in golds in Sochi, Russia, in 2014. (And they might yet pull ahead in those latter charts, given they tied with doping-scandalized Russia.) Their past six Olympiads saw them finish first, second, third, sixth (in their big bummer of 2006 in Italy), fourth and third, with medal counts of 26, 25, 25, 19, 23 and 26.

This time, they’re talking, in calm, matter-of-fact tones, about outdoing themselves with 30.

Their chef de mission, Tore Ovrebo, who is cooler than your chef de mission, said without fanfare, “The aim is to have fun, and be as good friends when we go back as when we came here. In the meantime, we are hoping for 30 medals.” Translated into Norwegian, that means: We want to be your friend and strafe your sorry, limp-lunged rear end. Recent Associated Press projections had the Norwegians at 39 medals, 19 gold, without even including any medals for the 21-year-old cross-country star who is the talk of the big-little country, Johannes Hosflot Klaebo.

Biathlete Ole Einar Bjorndalen, 44, owns a Winter Olympic-record 13 medals, and cross-country skier Petter Northug, 32, won four at Vancouver in 2010.

Neither made this team.

At Norway’s Holmenkollen Ski Museum, one might learn the old saying that Norwegians are “born with skis on their feet,” revealing the extraordinary toughness of Norwegian women, able to birth both babies and large sporting equipment simultaneously. Norwegian ski expertise found an epitome this past Jan. 27, when the police in Kongsberg tweeted that they “had to take care of a very inebriated man on skis in the center of Kongsberg,” whereupon they also lampooned his technique: “It was clearly neither classic nor cross country.”

One Norwegian mother, the pulmonary powerhouse Marit Bjoergen, finds her fifth Olympics in cross-country here, having won a silver at Salt Lake City in 2002, a silver at Turin in 2006, three golds, a silver and a bronze at Vancouver in 2010 and three golds in Sochi in 2014. That made 10, the number she will take to her final Olympics with her 37-year-old body that gave birth in 2015 to both a son and, presumably, the attached skis.

On Thursday here, she walked with three teammates into a school gymnasium, beneath the glass basketball backboards, as photographers followed her from one baseline to the other.

“My experience from previous championships makes me calm and reflective,” she said, “so the pressure on me is a bit lower than my first Olympics. I feel like this is just another ski run, like all the other ones. So I’ll keep calm.” And: “It is of course tougher and tougher for me to compete in the top.”

That 30-medal bit has been ascertained carefully.

“It started two years ago, discussions, how many medals each sport can plan and hope for. And then we have made a sum. And then we do some quality work on that sum. Something is dreams, and something is real goals. And then after we have done this, there was a huge commitment to this common goal. But if you ask all the athletes, one by one, in all the sports, the number will be higher. I think that 30 is quite a lot, and we will be very happy if we achieve that.”

#Norway #Norwegian Olympic team

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Sámi Theatre in Norway

Possibly the most prominent Sami theatre company is the Beaivváš Sámi Teáhter, based in Kautokeino, Norway. It’s the only major Sami theatre company in the country and is sponsored by the Norwegian government. Its founding came amidst a major turning point for Sami recognition in the late 1970s and early 1980s. In 1979, the Norwegian government proposed building a dam up the Alta river, the northernmost river in Norway, for a hydroelectric plant. By doing this, they would flood Sami settlements and traditional reindeer pastures, with no regard for the people or their livelihood whatsoever. This sparked massive protests all over Norway, led by Sami but with many sympathizers. There was a sit-in in front of the Norwegian Parliament, with many Joiking day and night for their threatened land (documented in, of all things, Norway’s 1980 Eurovision entry “Sami Ædnan''). While the dam was built, it was built on a much smaller scale than initially planned, leaving Sami land untouched. Even if they couldn’t stop it being built entirely, the movement led to a resurgence of awareness and pride among the Sami for their culture. Naturally, this inspired many Sami artists to express that newfound pride and cultural awareness in new creative works, including theatre-makers.

The Beaivváš Sámi Teáhter opened as a small theatre company in 1981 with a musical satire called Min duoddarat, discussing Sami culture and the conflicts surrounding the building of the dam. As the company’s website explains, “the name of the theatre, Beaivváš, is the Sámi word for ‘day’ and ‘sun,’ symbolizing both the life-giving power of the sun and the importance of bringing Sámi cultural identity out into the light.” Like Giron Sami Teahter, their goal is to create high-quality theatre that amplifies Sami voices. Their big breakthrough came in 1985, with the play Vaikko čuođi stálu… (Even if a hundred Ogres…). The play took inspiration from and used traditional Sami writings to tell their people’s history, expressed through choreography, mask, mime, and music rather than words. So significant was this production that it was revived for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, and helped set the company on the road toward being subsidized by the government. Today, they still perform both locally and around the globe, with stops as far away as Greenland and Spain’s Basque Country. They have translated a number of plays by famous playwrights into Sami, including those of Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Brecht. In 1991, they even adapted the early-1700s Japanese kabuki play Narukami, adjusted with references to Sami mythology, showing how different cultures and traditions from completely different places can adapt, intertwine, and find common ground. Most recently, the Beaivváš Sámi Teáhter performed Johan Turi, a play about the first and most famous Sami writer, at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany, as part of a festival of Norwegian art and culture.

Watch a clip of a revival of Min duoddarat below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO-FOGHDQYc&ab_channel=ammienna

#beaivvas sami teahter #norway #sami #sami theatre #indigenous theatre #indigenous culture

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