Flew from Bergan to Rygge, just out of Oslo, and the lovely Cameron was there to pick me up in a hire car. Cam and Jan spend the summer in Norway and the the rest of the year in oz. Sounds pretty idyllic to me. They've bought a little dilapidated hytta (hut) in a beautiful location and have spent the last few years doing it up. It's gorgeous! Jan baked bread horns for breakfast, Cam baked an apple cake, and we had fresh salmon & berries... Couldn't have eaten better at a 5 star hotel. Cam and I schemed away at our Scandinavian caberet we're going to put on later in the year and I baked in the sauna and composed a sauna waltz ditty....
Next day we drove to the beautiful town of Hvitsten where Pia, Christian and Sverre live. It's also the home of a ships prowhead sculpture park which Cam n Jan had wanted to see. It was a drizzling day and my green shoes got wet dying my feet green... made me look like a troll!
The sculptures were incredibly varied not just the cliched bare breasted maiden ones. I paticularly liked the fish.. everyone else thought it was ugly...
Later Pia, Sverre, Christian and I walked over to a organic farm and cafe which is run by the brother of the one who runs the sculpture park. He'd built incredible ecological buildings on the farm including a new swallow house that I 
wouldn't mind living in! Yup this is it to the left. It's straw bale with grass on the roof..
wouldn't mind living in! Yup this is it to the left. It's straw bale with grass on the roof..
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