#gjøvik

[archivednorway]

gjøvik, 1985

photograph by unknown

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#streetart #art #norge #gjøvik #birkenstock #byliv #springtime #blue #glassblower #yellow (ved Gjøvik, Norway) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd3fmZAMe5m/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Gjøvik, Norway

The arms are based it off the symbol of the side-wheel steamer, the "white swan of Mjøsa" witch is usually docked near the town harbor

[cebozcom]

Strindheim TF vinner med eneste mål mot SK Gjøvik-Lyn | www.ceboz.com

Strindheim TF vinner kampen mot SK Gjøvik-Lyn med en effektiv heading etter corner. Lynlaget viser spillemessig fremgang, men mangler målsjanser.

[whatodoo-norway]

Snø Tour - Ballinciaga - Gjøvik, Norway | 24 Feb, 2024.

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Best time ever in 🇳🇴 Super schöne Tage mit so lieben Menschen❤️ Heiko und Ane haben mit mir tolle Videos in den wundervollsten Kulissen für „Let’s Fly Away“ gedreht🤩 Nun gehts wieder zurück✈️ #estherfilly #norway #gjøvik #letsflyaway #newrelease #music (hier: Gjøvik, Norway) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoUbpvxMykC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[enig-og-tro]

A Norwegian roadblock on the road to Gjøvik with the intent of slowing the German invasion of the country in 1940

[svanhildbogseth]

På bussen

Jeg tok buss i dag, på vei til Gjøvik. Jeg har en gammel venn der. Kanskje jeg skal fortelle dere om ham en gang, men ikke nå. Nå er for tidlig.

På bussen satt jeg ved sida av ei høy kvinne. Hun hadde lyset hår og øretelefoner i. Hun var omtrent tretti år gammel, synes jeg. Hun gråt, stille, og beveget beinet sitt nervøst. Jeg prøvde å bare se ut av vinduet, ikke avbryte henne.

Men jeg kunne se henne på vinduet likevel. Det lite smilet hennes, sitrende hendene i håret, tårer på hvite kinnene.

Jeg spurte kvinna om hvor hun hendte. Jeg trodde at det var et ufarlig, vennlig spørsmål. Hun tok en av øretelefonene ut og ristet på hodet.

Hun sa at hun hørte meg ikke. Jeg spurte igjen, hvor hender du? Gjøvik, sa hun. Jeg smilte litt, meg også. Og da så jeg ut av vinduet en liten stund. Bensinstasjon og et grønt fjell i bakgrunnen.

Da sa jeg at jeg skulle besøke vennen min. Hva skal du i Gjørvik? Spurte jeg.

Hun ristet på hodet igjen. Ingenting, sa hun, og satte øretelefonen sin inn. Jeg smilte til henne, ingenting. Da fortsatte vi å sitte stille på bussen. Hun gråt ikke lenger.

[fictionfromafar]

The Lazarus Solution by Kjell Ola Dahl

The Lazarus Solution

By Kjell Ola Dahl

Translated by Don Bartlett

Orenda Books

Publication Date: 27 April 2023

#RandomTTours

There is a richness and a depth to each of Kjell Ola Dahl’s novels that is present irrespective of whether they form part of his contemporary eight volume Oslo Detectives series or his standalone novels such as The Courier and The Assistant which feature a greater historical slant. His writing is truly immersive, and in The Lazarus Solution, the setting is summer 1973, largely in Stockholm. While Sweden’s status was officially neutral during the second world war, with Norway and Denmark both occupied by the Germans and Finland fighting on the same side, against Russia, the authorities permitted German soldiers to travel on Swedish trains while their presence was felt in the capital. The city is seen through the eyes of demobbed Norwegian sailor Kai Fredly. The son of a communist, Kai was compelled to travel to Spain to serve on the side of the Republican Government, yet when he returns to his home country, he discovers that his brother has been killed, after apparently working as a Nazi conspirator. It soon becomes clear that he has been spared imprisonment or worse as those connected to his brother wish him to avenge his death. In Stockholm Kai realises that it’s hard to find friends, even among his compatriot exiles when he doesn’t know which side they are on or on whose behalf he’s working.

The other key character in the story is a writer by the name of Jomar Kraby who is hired by the exiled Norwegian Government to discover what happened to one of their couriers who died on the border with Sweden. As it evident that the path of the two men will cross at some stage as the novel weaves towards a climax, yet on what terms and whether hostilities will endure is unclear. At times, the story has the feel of a classic black and white espionage film as secret rendezvous take place with charming, mysterious, or beautiful femme fatales, potentially luring Kai into dangerous or compromising situations as well as suspects being tailed on foot in broad daylight through city streets. At times it is captivating, at times a little convoluted as Dahl’s storytelling tends to straddle multiple time periods rather than featuring both in the same timeframe. I didn’t foresee the big reveal and liked a little ambiguity at the tail end of the story.

The Lazarus Solution has the feel of a classic which excites and educates. Much as I enjoy the author’s series, I feel I do prefer his historical standalones as it releases any restraints around time period and character. While each of these novels has been very distinctive, I perhaps feel that I would wish for in his future publications is a story with a female lead character which would provide a welcome contrast.

The Book:

Summer, 1943. Daniel Berkåk, who works as a courier for the Press and Military Office in Sweden, is killed on his last cross-border mission to Norway.

Demobbed sailor Kai Fredly escapes from occupied Norway into Sweden, but finds that the murder of his Nazi-sympathiser brother is drawing the attention of the authorities on both sides of the border.

The Norwegian government, currently exiled in London, wants to know what happened to their courier, and the job goes to writer Jomar Kraby, whose first suspect is a Norwegian refugee living in Sweden … a refugee with a past as horrifying as the events still to come … a refugee named Kai Fredly…

Both classic crime and a stunning exposé of Norwegian agents in Stockholm during the Second World War, The Lazarus Solution is a compulsive, complex and dazzling historical thriller from one of the genre's finest writers.

For fans of Sebastian Faulks, Lars Mytting, Mick Herron and Robert Harris.

The author:

One of the fathers of the Nordic Noir genre, Kjell Ola Dahl was born in 1958 in Gjøvik. He made his debut in 1993, and has since published fourteen novels, the most prominent of which is a series of police procedurals cum psychological thrillers featuring investigators Gunnarstranda and Frølich. In 2000 he won the Riverton Prize for The Last Fix and he won both the prestigious Brage and Riverton Prizes for The Courier in 2015. His work has been published in 14 countries, and he lives in Oslo.

Many thanks to Anne Cater at Random Things Tours for inclusion on the blog tour and Orenda Books for providing me with an advance copy of The Lazarus by Kjell Ola Dahl. Please check out the other reviews of this book on the blog tour as shown below.

[krulli-cruisen]

Dienstag 23.08.

Der Tag begann mit einer langen Führung über den Campus der Universität, bei der ich alle Fragen loswerden konnte, die mir auf der Seele brannten. Die 6h bis zu meinem Treffen mit dem deutschen Masterstudenten nutze ich zum Eiskaffee trinken, lesen, Route planen und Sonnenbrand kriegen 🌞 Aber bisher kann ich sagen - die Uni ist der absolute Wahnsinn. Bei einem Semesterbeitrag von 60€ und der Ausstattung einer Privatuni kann man ja quasi nicht nein sagen..

Heute Abend geht’s weiter Richtung Norden!

Ich kann euch sagen - der Weg hat sich gelohnt! Der Weg von Gjøvik Richtung Lillehammer hätte nicht schöner sein können. Direkt neben dem Wasser verlief die Straße mit kleinen norwegischen Holzhäusern und den schönsten Sonnenuntergang der ganzen Woche.

[archivednorway]

gjøvik, 1970-1980

photograph by gunnar simonsen

[wanderingarcherviola]

Happy Birthday to me but almost everything in this country is closed on a Sunday so I can't do anything aside from travel back up to Gjøvik

[satinofsundays]

40 questions to ask your self every year || 2023 part two

What did you do this year that you’d never done before? I started getting interested in learning more about how market my business. Learning more about using YouTube as an example.

Did you keep your new year’s resolutions? No. However, I have given them some thoughts. It seems to me that since they usually are centered around myself I cast them away very quickly. So this year I shall try to set up a few that includes either others or me with other.

Did anyone close to you give birth? No

Did anyone close to you die? No, not close.

What cities/states/countries did you visit? Gjøvik and North-Cyprus! First plane flight since before covid-19 and I must say... It was aweful! I had seen the documentary on Netflix about Flight MH370, and Manifest... So... Yea. Let's just say that when the stewardess showed us the dropping mask, I freaked out. And you know... They do that at the start of the flight...

What would you like to have next year that you lacked this year? A steady income. I got a job this year, but they only needed me for the summer, and a few days ago a local newspaper article said that they will be moving the production further away. So.. Yes. What I really would love is to be able to have a steady income from my own business. <33

What date(s) from this year will remain etched upon your memory, and why? Well... I don't think there is any specific dates I can think of.

What was your biggest achievement of the year? Reaching over 10.000kr income at my business!

What was your biggest failure? None yet.

What other hardships did you face? So... This was last years answer to this. "Well.. I have been away from my family and learned a lot from it. I have grown, but it seems like they are struggling to see any difference. During the Trondheim trip - which was with my family - all I was feeling was hurt and sorrow. I was yelled at, looked at weirdly, I was not allowed to say anything. I was pushed down the entire time. It made me decide not to join this trip anymore. I don’t think I have ever spent so much time alone on a family trip before." - THIS year I fell into another vacation "trap". I start off thinking that things will be fiiiine, it will be good. This time will be different. They can't be like this again. But... They were. I think it was so bad this time that I will not mention much other than that I will never ever again travel with my family. Again... I do not spend much time with my family. When I try, there is always something scarring... We just do not function together anymore. Simple as that. All I can handle with them is a few hours. That is enough. Let's stop there.

Did you suffer illness or injury? No, only regular mental illness. After learning witchcraft and getting into herbs I have been better at relaxing my mind and drinking teas that are good for me. I have grown my own St. Johns Wort this year and have taken pills and drinking tea with that exact herb. It has made me feel much better. But that might also be because I spend a little more time outside caring for my plants. - My eyes seem to hurt a little bit, but I also got glasses for the first time this year, so... Not sure if it is the amount of St. John's Wort or the glasses that causes that.

What was the best thing you bought? Everything witchcraft, but also everything for my business! <33

Whose behavior merited celebration? Last year I wrote "Idk", but I know it was my boyfriend. How did I get someone that good? I think life always balances out and, besides my small wins at my business, he is my only light. So... It just all fills up in him, I guess.

Whose behavior made you appalled? Closest family members.

Where did most of your money go? Buying products for the business and at the end of the year an all black clothes wardrobe!

What did you get really, really, really excited about? Getting sales on my store! Oh my! I had about 14-15 orders a month after I started up the season in September! <33 <33

What song will always remind you of this year? Hmm... It have to be Friends by Chase Atlantic. I don't know how that song got on my playlist, but it was suddenly there and then I listened to it while at work and it suddenly just clicked with an idea I had. I played it over and over again. The idea was to use it as an intro to my future Salem travel vlog. :D :P

Compared to this time last year, are you: happier or sadder? Thinner or fatter? Richer or poorer? I think I am happier actually. Hah. Yes, I think I am. Even though I have had a few bad days recently, I do feel happier than before. I know for certain that the reason is my business. I have things to do. Things I like. And I am earning money with it. I know. Not a lot... Yet. ;) But it actually feels like something. Thinner or fatter? I think I am the same, but right now I am concerned that my health is worsening. I feel it. My body is heavy. So my body would wish it was thinner. It aims to be 70kg. Just so it reaches that normal weight range. That would be enough right now. Richer or poorer? I don't have the same income as last year when I was getting a scholarship, but this year. I feel richer even though I don't have a kr to my name atm.

What do you wish you’d done more of? What could I have done more of...? Well... Thinking about it now, I think I could have done more for my business. Get the name out there. Work smarter, not harder.

What do you wish you’d done less of? Watching tv and eating. [Written November 14th 2023]

[punalippulaiva]

NSB El13.2121 (train 209 to Gjøvik) by Lolke Bijlsma Via Flickr: Oslo S, 1995-07-10 Slide: D03962

[whatodoo-norway]

Knut Anders Sørum // Jul - Gjøvik, Norway | 16 Dec, 2023.

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