Tales from the bright side

So, it seems like this is it! We're very excited!! After a couple of months of looking for shop spaces, we are going to rent the very ...

Sure a mosque in Oslo seems somewhat incongruent, but there it is! There are about 5 mosques of note in the city this is the second larges...

Fretex is the name for the Salvation Army in Norwegian and it is big here! Fretex is the place where Ikea becomes even more affordable and ...

Come one come all, the Fruity Keiko Store in Zihuatanejo is open! All of our wonderful staff from last year are still here! Diana, Rossy, a...

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The Viegland Sculpture park is one of Oslo's biggest attractions. We had a perfect day to go there, in fact we were chasing the shade a...

Well i know alot more about stinging nettles now! First of all they hurt like the dickens! And funnily enough they are very common in urban ...

http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/two-day-sale-on-mexi-4641/ Now is the time to book, if you’re seriously contemplating a...

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A couple of days ago we took a small forest path at the edge of our neighbour hood up the side of the mountain. After only about 15 minutes ...

You can at least paint the ones you have! The building that we have recently moved into in Oslo is in the process of renovation. It is all f...

Last week i went to a art show, here is a link to a review of it in Norwegian http://www.kunstkritikk.no/article/73887 And here is the gall...

I am posting this after the fact, but i want to keep everything in order and SOOOO many things happen all the time. In this busy URBAN envir...

We had to go and see the latest addition to the Oslo skyline, or water line as it were. The New Opera house, finished a couple of years ago...

The weather has broken and things are looking fabulous! The reason Norway is so full of beautiful forests and lush gardens is those 244 we...

..................................... This will be our address here in Oslo: Eva Robbins & Jim Garrity Grønlandsleiret 46 0190 Oslo Norw...

Hei Hei as they say over here! We have been in Norway for one week and have already worn all the clothes that we brought with us. The surpri...