We went out this morning with some friends and were met by a beautiful blue sky! It made me so happy - as it always does. Who cannot be joyful when met by such a beautiful sight?

We took a stroll over to Akerhus, a beautiful fortress with ancient trees, canons from many ages and a […]

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I had a great day today and saw lots of Oslo, but it was far from your average tourist excursion.

I can always see Holmenkollen close up at a future time, but I wanted to catch up on my roots and wanted to see the places where my dad grew up and the places I […]

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This morning, we got up after far too few hours of sleep (two). With the TV team busy dealing with practicalities around the documentary, we got the day off and my dad gave me the tour of (part of the) city.

It was fun to catch up on Oslo, especially since my grandmother comes from […]

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It is nearly morning and I am just back at the hotel, after having seen the very first (complete) preview of the TV2 documentary about the Niger “famine” in 2005. I really liked it (what a complex piece of work!) and it will be interesting to see how people respond to it. Mostly when we […]

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