Hello, nice to be back to live internet again !! yesterday journey from Kuusamo to Nurmes, on the way we made a stop at an outside art gallery of sorts .. to view the "Silent People" - The Silent People moved to their present home in the autumn of 1994. The peat-heads are kept in good shape and have their clothing attended to twice a year; their heads come straight from the field, their clothes from organised collections. The Silent People are made and clothed by the Suomussalmi Youth Workshop, which also takes care of their maintenance. People often ask what precisely is the idea behind the Silent People. A state of psycho-logical withdrawal? The mute Kainuu soul? A forgotten people? Reijo Kela refuses to provide any answer. Each viewer is free to come to his own conclusions. It may, however, be of interest to learn that if the Silent People were to be completely undressed there would remain some one thousand wooden crosses standing in the field. The Silent P...
Tuesday 20 th July Lillehammer, Norway Lilliehammer - is a town and municipality in Oppland county, Norway, globally known for hosting the 1994 Winter Olympics. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. The population of the town of Lillehammer is approx 21,000. The city centre is a late 19th century concentration of wooden houses, which enjoys a picturesque location overlooking the northern part of lake Mjøsa and the river Lågen, surrounded by mountains. The area has been settled since the Norwegian Iron Age. It is also mentioned as a site for council in 1390. It had a lively market by the 1800s, and obtained rights as a merchant city on 7 August 1827, at which point there were 50 registered residents within its boundaries. The town of Lillehammer was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 Mora Th...
Hello from San Francisco, arrived this morning from Sonora, a busy day, dropped the group at Pier 39 for lunch, then I went up to the hotel dropped off the luggage so it would be in the bedrooms by the time we arrived later, went back to Pier 39 picked up the group and the local guide, Craig, and went off on a city tour for 3 hours, and checked out all the great sights that this city has to offer, arrived at the hotel at about 16.15, got everyone in, and had time to wash my face, and it was off out again on an evening tour. First we went over to Sausalito for dinner, everyone just made their own arrangements, there are some nice eateries there. I settled for a delicious, BBQ chicken burger ... cooked fresh in front of me ... We left and then headed back towards San Fran, and took a drive through the city to see the nice lights !!! went up Nob Hill, and down California Street, I thought some of the group were going to die when we started to come down (its a ver...
Comments
Post a Comment