Tuesday 25 March 2014

Hemsedal

We went to Hemsedal in February for our winter holiday. Jim and I first went there back in 2007, pre children! 
We took Maisie there in 2010, and then Neddy got to join in the fun too.

Not having skied for a good few years, I think we were both slightly scared about the prospect, but thankfully had the perfect excuse for not going all the way up the mountain straight away, as Maisie was having ski lessons so we wanted to be close, you know, just in case.

Thankfully she didn't need us and took to skiing really well, and skied with us for a bit after her lessons which was lovely.
Neddy meanwhile was at the fab childcare facility being looked after by some lovely girls. So he was a happy boy.

The weather was good to us - sunshine, snow, temperature not too bitingly cold, although we did ski through the cloud one day.

We had lunch one day in one of the little huts with an amazing fire, which we cooked our sausages over. Having been to Scandinavia before it's one thing we try to do, and this trip Jim proved his fire making skills are as good as any Scandinavian (especially as quite a few of them borrowed our matches!)

Of course the drive back to Gardemoen airport was fraught; Maisie was travel sick; we were rapidly running out of time to drop the hire car off; the car hire man pounced on us before we could tidy up and get out; we missed the floor on the lift for departures; a lovely lady directed us to the family security check lane where Neddy didn't like the customs chap and so wouldn't walk throughout the metal detector on his own; and then there was the very long long walk to get to international departures and the debate over whether or not to go through the very final security check to the gate.

Still we made it.

Daytime telly

Urgh!

We went to Norway in August for our summer holiday and Jim was quite poorly.

We went to Norway in February for our winter holiday and I was ill, Ned was ill and Jim was very ill.

It's now a month since we returned and I'm ill again!  So in between bouts of napping I've also been watching lots of crappy daytime telly.

I have come to the following conclusions:

1) Millionaire Matchmaker is hilarious and I like Patty;
2) Real Housewives of Vancouver is better than Real Housewives of New Jersey;
3) Whilst Kirstie (Allsop) needs Phil (Spencer); Phil does not need Kirstie;
4) Allo Allo is still funny.

Jeg kan ikke help deg

It's about one of the only Norwegian phrases I can remember.

I can not help you.

It might not be one of the most helpful phrases when our adventure gets going. I mean it might be something people say to us a lot, but it won't get the electricity or wifi connected will it.

Think we need to up the ante really.


New Nordic Noir

How did we miss the brilliant series The Killing? 

Having run out of Nordic drama on the tv, I bought the box set of series one of The Killing to take on our recent Norwegian trip. 

20 episodes 5 disks and 1100 minutes of telly!

I was only going to take the first disk after all the Winter Olympics were on, and it being Norway there'd be lots of it on tv.

Jim persuaded me to take all of them. Glad I did, as after the first episode we were hooked.  We managed to watch 11 episodes whilst on holiday!

Haven't got the next 2 box sets; need a bit of time off traumatising Nordic dramas...... Although there is a new drama called Mammon starting soon........