Curiosities

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This small village has a short name – Å. It is pronounced like 'a' in 'all' and means 'small river'. Meldal, Sør-Trøndelag. There seems to be twelve places, including farms, in Norway with this name, one of them written Aa.

(2004-05-29)

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A reindeer buck on the road at Isterfossen, near the lake Femund in Eastern Norway. This one must have got somewhat used to people.

(2004-08-10)

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Rock mares in Bø, Telemark. Because there is a real and less nice rock mare in Bø.

(2003-07-30)

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Cairns at the Arctic Circle. This is just a few samples; the little hill is littered with cairns. I suppose the point is to leave a token: "I was here". To the left is quite special example, placed on the lawn in front of the building: A nicely polished piece of cut black rock with a Dutch flag and three names engraved (I suppose it'll soon be cleared away). These are the "tourist cairns" seen many places, mainly at roads across mountains. However, it seems that every mountain top in this country has a cairn, much larger than those shown here, and they are usually raised by the natives.

(2008-06-03)

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At the popular tourist destination Trollstigen. Maybe Kilroy's grandchildren were here.

(2004-10-01)

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A landslide has exposed the rock. This is the mountain Børsetkjerringa (1009 m), two kilometres up the valley Viromdalen from Ålvundeid, close to Sunndalen. Evidently the mess down in the valley has been tidied up. The mountain will need several decades to get back its cover.

(2005-05-28)

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The valley Sunndalen with the river Driva. I don't know what this is – but ...

(2005-05-27)

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The outlet dam of Jonsvatnet, the lake that supplies Trondheim with tap water.

(2004-09-26)

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"Not allowed to bath". Near the Leirfossene power station dam in Trondheim. The boom across the river is intended to prevent drifting objects from clogging the inlet of the power station tunnel.

(2013-03-10)

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Fodder balls and controversial windmills in Roan, Trøndelag

(2010-04-21)

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(2004-10-10)

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Reaper

(2004-08-07)

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Just out of the grave – somebody dug it up.

(2005-09-26)

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Once a home

(2011-08-21)

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A rainy spring day on Route 666. This road runs 47 kilometres along Tingvollfjorden and Batnfjorden from Eidsvåg to Batnfjordsøra south of Kristiansund.

(2005-05-12)

The much longer U.S. Route 666 through New Mexico, Colorado and Utah ("Devil's Highway") got a new number in 2004 because of superstition and many unfortunate incidents – including frequent stealing of road signs. Nothing like that seems to have happened here. As you know, 666 is the number of the Beast, see Rev.13:18.

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