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Last weekend, we decided to try the Sunday Brunch over at the Lyafa restaurant, which is situated at an easy walking distance, two blocks from Eden street.
The food was good, starting with the salads…
…and then moving on to the warm dishes.
Guinea fowl casserole with fried plantains and garlic-fried potatoes. Yummy! It’s always a treat when […]
Where were you, twenty years ago?
This very day, twenty years ago, I was visiting the field station with my family to see the development of the new mud buildings that Eden was setting up in Dalli, 13 km south of Tanout city.
Although the buildings themselves were nice, the field station did not make that much […]
So how was warm season in Niger spent 20 year ago? I was looking through my mother’s image archives the other day and found lots of reminders, all from the month of May 1988.
As always, May was excessively dusty - and we found we could write things in the dust coat on the veranda table. […]
Summer in Sweden (2005)
The picture above includes every Garvi I have ever met, with the exception of my two little nieces.
On Monday, we went back to the field station to continue the work that was started some ten days ago.
Image from September 11th 2007
Although I love the field station when its green, I love it just as much when it the grass is dry and many of the trees has shred their leaves. It is […]
After an early lunch and a very enjoyable ride through Tanout endless landscape, we arrived at Eden’s field station, which is situation 13 km south of Tanout city (140 km north of Zinder), in the northernmost Nigerien agriculture zone.
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Famine food is supposed to refer to food that is consumed in times of great need and which can act as a indication of famine or extreme difficulties, but more often than not, famine food is a derogative expression for local food in remote places that rest of the world knows little or nothing about. […]
After Akershus, my dad’s friend took us to NRK, where he works. The primary reason however was not touristic, but to continue tracing my Norwegian roots.
Having logged in as official visitors, we stepped into the studio where my dad went twice a week as a child, singing for the boy choir Sølvguttene.
There were lots of […]
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 […]
Today, TV2 Norway posted the following presentation about the “famine” of Niger, which will be airing on Monday the 3rd of March at 22.35pm:
En medieskapt katastrofe
Året er 2005. En fem måneder gammel gutt dør rett foran et TV-kamera, og BBC erklærer sultkatastrofe i Niger. Men tv-bildene forteller ikke sannheten.
FAKTA:
Se Dokument 2 på TV […]
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