This year I went to the annual European Digital Library conference in Norway ... was a rather small town with not too much to do but that meant lots of time for random chit-chat about researchy stuff ... which is why we were all there anyway :)
Saint Olof on a pedestal (and what a pedestal) in the middle of town ... in front of the shopping mall where i had to pay R100! for a watch battery cos mine died and expensive mcdonalds too!
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the Nidaros Cathedral ... the most imposing and historic (and touristy) building in town
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a close-up of the area over the front entrance
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gargoyles along the side ... and lots of them ... not like those measly one or two you knew about at VT if you were really cool
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and as you get closer one looks like a knight and another like a mummy?
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and then a normal person in contrast to an alien licking the head of an alien child clinging on ... or am i completely off-base here?
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the side view of the cathedral was even more impressive ... but then maybe this was because you could get far enough back to take pics :)
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and here's a closeup of the bottom so you know how big this thing is
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and closeups of the statues - one wonders who the beheaded dude is ...
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and who's the dude with the basket of 3 heads? are these really christian symbols? what gives? (yes, i couldnt take pics inside - hence all the exterior shots)
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the view from the roof .. it was the highest spot in town and on the day i visited it was the last day we were allowed to go up the tower!
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the ocean and some kind of island ... hmmm ...
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whoa - big pic of gargoyle! up close and personal
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more gargoyles and other symbols on the top of the other tower
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real Norwegian graves ... looks suspiciously like graves anywhere else
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looking towards the hills ... and top left is the world's first bike lift that i only learnt about after coming back home :(
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norwegian architecture ... kinda squarish if you ask me
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the avenue from the cathedral to the train station ... quaint i guess
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Archbishop's Palace ... doesnt look very palacy but thats what they called it
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oooh ... real Norwegian chicks ... i bet they thought i was taking photos of the obelisk *evil grin* ... actually reminds me of Sarah (Wylie)
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lots of old stone buildings all over (recreations mostly), and dudes on bicycles all over the place
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on the pedestrian mall there were these kids selling textbooks on the ground ... very hippie-looking ... but they scooted before i came back with camera
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a troll ... i bought this guy's little brother as a fridge magnet from the salg (sale?) in the store behind
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more of the three heads ... methinks there be a pattern ... as was pointed out by Robert, who first noticed the repeating motif
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and more Norwegian university students to round off the day ... sommer chilling in the centre of town ... ahhh, the life!
