I have shared a bit about my job struggling and how I had to get frustrated to see that I can’t do it my way. Only trust Him.
And today, the day when my plans were to send out open applications towards schools, I got a 50% job offer 🤩🤩🤩✝️🙏✝️ that will fit my studies 🤩🤩🤩🤩. A job in after school activity (afternoon job) until this summer. Just what I have asked from the Lord.
Now, is the question… how will I celebrate? I can’t stop smiling. I’m happy. Feeling blessed! Thankful to the Lord and how he work out the way for me!
Just need to add a small thing about the job offer I got today, 2nd of January. That this is a job position I was denied just before Christmas. And now it’s gonna be mine just because God can open closed doors. 🙌🙌🙌.
New Year’s eve came with snowy rain around midnight, rain and around zero degrees celsius this morning. Slippery streets with a mix of ice and rain in the afternoon 🤪🌨🌧
I had to get out and every time I had to walk I thought I would end up on my bump 🤪
I will ” hide ” at home and sew, eat something tasty and have dessert which I normally don’t.
The wish to see some fireworks haven’t I had for many years. I wish for a free firework evening! A better choice for the environment and the animals!
My Birthday with my Norwegian Mother.
My best memories of 2025… I think I have to say it’s the short week in Gothenburg with my best friend from childhood!
Yatzy evening 🎲🎲.
💞 That I finally could do this tattoo in honor to my Mother, a person I miss a lot. 💞
Or when I finally got by the ferry to Kvitsøy. That I have wanted to visit since I moved back in 2021.
So thankful for everything! But I could not been able to do this without Him! Therefore will I continue with the Lord on this journey. I have so many expectations towards the Lord in 2026.
He has my life in his hands! 😍🙏✝️.
My expectations for 2026 from God is guidance, love, peace and blessing in the way only the Lord can do. And that He continue to help me with my studies 😊. That He preparing me for my future. I have to say that through all my struggles and not understanding how to be able to pay my bills he continue to surprise me with his blessings 🙏✝️. It has for sure been a bumpy road! But so many blessings 🙏✝️ in all different ways I didn’t think about 😅.
Cleaning out thing I don’t need or want to keep. I know off experience that it’s easier to do this type of cleaning when you know you are going to something smaller than you have had until now. Yet we should all do the ” move cleaning ” more often. And give away more often. Because as humans we keep things, items we inheritance from someone that meant something for us. Yet it’s just memories. If we keep everything that have a memory we wouldn’t be able to live, I believe.
I think it’s good for us humans to clean out once in a while. To sort out what we actually need to keep or just ” following me around from one place to another. “.
As Christians we should at least try to clean out more often. It say’s a lot of whom you are, when you are and live like everyone else on the earth without the faith that we are going for something bigger and don’t need all the things we have around us, where we going.
I’m gonna give away lots of kitchen stuff to a secondhand store. The good thing with moving is that you can go through what you have, need to keep or just give away 😊😊.
Fabric I’ll give away.
This was what my plan was to do from the 19th, but because of the cold I got, doing now 😊. Giving it away because I don’t need it anymore. But someone else will in the coming year.
I’ll give away four of my Christmas stars because I won’t need more than one or two. And I’ll give away ornaments and other Christmas decorations 😊. Maybe even my Christmas tree.
It has been myphilosophy since my very first move, age 18, that every time I move I should give away so other’s can buy it from a secondhand store. Just like I have done with most of my things.
I have given 3 of those flowers away. 😊
Flower pots, at least 30 off them. Will go to a secondhand store today 😊.
And it say’s in the Bible that, it’s not what we have on earth but in heaven that counts (in easy word’s).
And it’s an awesome way to clean out your head too 😉
In the moment it’s still 2025. A year that has been a roller coaster in many ways! Both good and some less good things, but God is good and has control over my life!
He is my solid rock in life.
The past week I’ve been down with a cold, but I’m back 😊.
This semester has been a mix of fun, hard learning and a realisation that I am on the right track. Even if most things that normally would work smooth has been “up hill walking ” for me. In the way that I walk against what the society thinks is “the normality ” of how you do things 🤪😆.
I walk with the Lord and trust Him in this journey. I have to try new way’s of how to survive and try to live a bit too.
Enjoying living here, so close to the seaside. Christmas Eve-25.Trying to sew a cardigan to myself. Life as a student. To whom we miss in life. Those photos are a mix of this fall (Autumn).
But I have also got new colleagues through my latest job 😊. Which helps a lot for me and the studies! Who would guessed that when this journey started?
Between January and June I was blessed with a job as a substitute teacher! I have learned so much from that and how I can use it into the academic world of writing!
It’s here already 🤪🙈. This fall has past so fast (which in the long run is a good thing, because then five years will run fast too), almost scary fast. We have been working on and with wood assignments the past seven weeks.
Yesterday the 8th of December, we met up at Campus Notodden and got to work on our clay assignment we did between August and October this fall. The teacher has burned our clay assignment for the past few weeks, and we started on to choose what type of glaze we wanted on our products we made.
Glaze day at Campus Notodden.
This is my product’s and glaze before 2nd burning. The turtle is just an experiment off colours. Main colour is black, the colour that looks like light blue on the picture, the light purple will hopefully become grey and the green colour is a under glaze and I hope it ” pop’s ” through the black.
The lighthouse is painted in oxide black with a red roof. And the ” bee🐝 vase ” is painted with a brown-ish colour with yellow columns on the top, so it looks like honey dripping.
From frustration on Monday the 24th of November, afternoon and evening, letting it out to friends and talking about it to inner peace from the Lord the next 24 hours. While the Lord also planted a seed thought in my brain. How I needed to be frustrated to see and understand I needed to be frustrated. To get even closer again to the Lord to fully trust Him in this situation.
I have been through a tough financial situation once again, and now I have peace again 😊 because I trust Him in everything!
After the frustration on Monday 24th of November, the Lord planted a seed thought in my brain on Wednesday 26th. A practical creative thought on how to earn money so I will be able to pay my rent for next month 🤩.
In the middle of all this I have finally got some extra temporary job, also doors the Lord has open up for me 🙏🙏 Thank you God for every day I am asked if I can work! A huge blessing!
Wednesday 26th, I made an ad to sell my Tenor Saxophone I bought in the late 1990’s and has just following me from place to place 😆😆. But for a reason I see now. To be able to sell it so I can use the money to live. God is good! God is creative! I am so so grateful for this! But it wasn’t easy to think new in the middle of everything! A challenge I just needed there and then. And I was called in to work 😊 🙏 thank you Lord.
To be Thankful when He challenges us is hard but a Blessing after.
This vers helped me a lot!
It is so true, that we don’t need to be afraid. “Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.” Helps to be reminded of when the world feels like it’s upside down. I experienced a spiritual fight in the middle of all things in this situation. But so thankful that the Lord is my Lord. 🙏. It’s Sunday (the 30th) today, I still have some financial issues I need to fix but trusting the Lord to help me be creative so I can earn the money I need.
This coming week (4th of December) I have an interview, a new SFO, 50% (which will work good for me and my studies). In the ad it was 2 vacation and 1 permanent positions. For it doesn’t matter which I get as long as I am offered one of the positions. That’s my pray right now. Because I need a job! My head works so much better with my studies when I work.
An other thing the Lord has opened up in my head (or is it just realisation?). That is that I sadly need to move again 😭😭😭. I need to be able to live and not just survive in my life. But this time I am really looking for something for the whole study period of 4,5 years. The Lord has open up doors when I need it, so He will continue to provide for me. 😊✝️.
Last week on Tuesday I had a chat with a SFO after I had sent some amount of open emails to schools nearby me. A chat about being able to work temporary if permanent workers are sick. And today I received a text if I could work tomorrow and the day after.
SFO is after school activity, parents pay for it, and the pulpils can go there instead of a payed nanny.
Today I had an other appointment with another SFO and got more job 🤩🤩🙌🙌. Praise the Lord! He is really providing when I really need it 🤩🤩.
I have been looking for a temporary job this semester because of my financial situation isn’t easy. And I have been so frustrated and praying for a open door and a breakthrough. It has been harder this fall than past school years because of the government’s tighter budget for all schools in Norway 😢.
To trust the Lord no matter what and keep your eyes on the light.
I got one interview this Tuesday (11th of November) but they could not promise anything…
Lord’s way’s are not always how we think.
At yesterday’s (13th of November) House Church I prayed for a breakthrough and this morning (Friday 14th of November) I had got an email from a school I were in contact with in October and have not heard from more. This morning they wanted to know if I am still interested.
Now I have a new interview this coming Monday the 17th (mom’s birthday date), 2 pm. They are in need of a temporary permanent-subtitute assistant in December. And as long as it works with my study schedule I hope they choose me 🤞🙏.
Some door’s opening up just in the right frustration time 😆😊.
Life as a student, day’s from my work experience school, nature, day light’s, Hallowee decoration with touch, wood assignments and All Saint’s Day more.
From a branch …to smaller pieces by sawing…Trying to split it…Machine sawing into a form.Carving Spoon shape 😊Wood assignments this fall.
Picture from my life those last weeks.
We who change the clock because of the Summer vs Winter time.
It’s been essay writing, new learning 🙈🤪😅 , the hardest part of learning for me as a student I have had! But God is good! And I have good friends that are willing to help me 😊🤩.
had a sewing break this summer. The break actually went on a bit longer than wanted 😅😅. Because of my “new” life as student I have been needed to find new routines… and sewing hasn’t fitted into that for the past month 😥.
Still trying out the layout…
…not happy with how it sat on me… so I started on scratch…
…with a new linning from an other pair of jeans and….
But took it up two weeks ago (around the 13th of September-25).
…still trying out the layout on what fabric I want and where… this is in September-25.
What an where…thinking process.
And I most often needs few weeks or months until I know how I want it 😅.
Thursday 25th of September after 4+1,5 hours of digital teaching (theory) my brain just couldn’t take in more and I sat down with my skirt project. Still the only thing that works on my brain. Managed to finish it so much that I could try it and wear it to my House Church, and see and feel if it was something missing. Got home two hours later and even if I was super tired I fixed the last small touches to be perfect for my taste.
This week has for sure had it’s up’s and down’s! First proper week after the start in Notodden.
Digital teaching on Monday and Thursday. Mondays are easier because it isn’t so much book related as it us on Thursdays. Tuesdays are only digital if we need help with a practical task.
I haven’t found a good rhythm yet… Which I really need especially on Thursdays.
But thanks to the Lord I have House Church on Thursday evening 🙌🙏✝️.
Wednesday the 27th of August I went by the school I have signed contract with to work extra at, because I had some questions. After meeting with the principal I headed towards the city. Praying ” Lord I don’t want to ask you for sick teachers but for opportunities to work when in need. I will get crazy if I don’t get any hours.”
Friday the 29th of August I finally had 3 lessons as a substitute teacher in art&craft 🤩.
September 12th.
The weeks pasts so fast. It’s a month since I started this education 🤪. I have realised that sewing can work on Thursdays. I will work on something private that doesn’t have anything to do with my studies.
Today (12th of September) I finally received a positive message from the loan found here in Norway. I will get some support for my studies. The Lord still need to provide for me, but I trust Him. He has provided for me step by step until now. Can’t stop Trusting Him now.
Monday 11th of August. Lot’s of information and I had to little sleep on the train, so my day ended early.
Tuesday 12th. First day with practical tasks. Material: clay. Get to know about different types of clay. Make a vase.
Sausage techniques. Last try to save my vase…
I stayed in an Airbnb this week with this view;
I have had good temperature in the evenings 😊 and been using the verandra here to both dinner and two mornings with breakfast.
Wednesday 13th. More clay. Fun but my challenges are my injury to my wrist. I like to show I can do the task and I do my best yet I do it to much 😟😟.
Lighthouse. Minimum 300mm high on one side, minimum 150mm on an other side. Decoration is one criteria and a roof. This is my lighthouse from start to finish.
The start, clay plate after rolling.Cut out after drawing. Fixing the edges. Glue sides together with wet clay “glue”.Finding the right place for the roof and “glue” it there.
Thursday 14th. Knitting and finishing up with my lighthouse.
Knitting a dog with knitting pattern. Measuring the distance between the stripes. Hand drawing the decoration stripes so it looks like standing wood panel.Hand drawing the decorations on the drying clay. Roof and front. Making the edges smoother.
Friday 15th. Weaving on cardboard. We got a cardboard 10 by 10 cm and to it we got instructions on how to make a loom and what all the threads are called on the loom.
Making the loom with cardboard 10 by 10 cm.
How to make the loom with yarn.
The start on the loom.
We were lucky to finish earlier than planned, at 1:15 PM instead of 2 PM. For me, that meant waiting for the bus for a little over an hour, but it was +24 degrees outside and light clouds 😊. So basically perfect weather for waiting.
Three of the days I stayed in the workshop after teaching hours to continue working on a task. A luxury to be able to use the workshop! A good experience and something I miss a lot during the summer break.
Even if I understood when I applied to this program, it would be a lot to do, I think I thought we would have a bit more time to work on the tasks at home. In the schedule we have two day’s without digital teaching, those two day’s I have chosen to work just because I know I need the break from ” home work ” and I need to see people. I have a plan on when to work on my ” home work ” and hoping it will work good in reality too 🤞.
Everything isn’t easy just because I got into my dream education. Oh no! I struggling to upload documents towards the loan fund 🤪😟. I’ve tried so many times those latest day’s I get nuts… but I trust the Lord it will work out in the end ✝️. He has provided me so far in life 🙏. The Lord helped me to get in to my dream education even after I got in to the wrong one 😊🙏.
In the middle of all this I have my focus on the lord because that’s all I can do and not freak out. I focus on things that makes me happy.
Today, Saturday 9th of August, I focused on shopping and finding things I need next week. I will pack and sew (and as soon as possible have dinner 😆😆 so hungry right now I can’t even stand 😆😆) . Yes I need to sew 🧵✂️ to relax my brain 😊. My newest project is the jeans jacket 😆😆. I have unpicked it because I wasn’t satisfied with the look.
The finished jeans jacket in April-25.
The new version of the ” jeans jacket “
“Just some major changes ” are done 😆😆…
Or a lot 😆😆. I have kept the sleeves and the (kragen) from the first jacket. It’s a total new look. Fit’s me better. I’m so much more happy with this look. Now it makes me happy and comfortable.
The front with new pockets.
The back.
I haven’t decided if I should have pockets in the back yet. We will see.
Sunday 10th (of August). I have unpacked, sewing on som reflection fabric, so cars will see me better in the dark (whenever I use this backpacker). Repacked all things I need with me. Done the nessasary washing up dishes, soon dinner and maybe a strong coffee at home or later. Packed “train-food” because on the last trip I had I got super hungry at 4am and bought a sandwich which I thought I could eat, but got so much cramps in my stomach 😟😟. I had pain for hours 😟😟. I have now brought my own sandwiches. Dinner in few minutes 😊.
And then off to church, which was just what I needed 😊🙏. The peace and the worship 🎶🎶🎶 😊. A good preaching I understood and gave meaning.
I have prepared myself for the train trip with a blanket, warm clothes. Because as last trip I was so so cold. Freezing 🥶🥶 on the train, with normal clothes on 😟😟.
Now, 20.40, I’m just waiting in a stair at Church for the time to past, so I can catch a bus down to the train station and wait there.
Waiting in the stairs in Church…
Night snacks b4 the train leaves.
Night-train towards Notodden at 22.15 pm with a change in the middle of nowhere called Nordagutu for 39 minutes at 05.25 am. Before I arrives Notodden early, 06.26 am!
This time I’m prepared 😊.
Monday 11th of August. 05:26 am I arrived Nordagutu and the temperature was +11°C 🥶 or fresh 😆😆. Had a sandwich until next train arrived the station.
A 30 minutes trip by train to Notodden.
In Notodden, I thought I would look for a strong cup of coffee the first thing. But I was to cold cause lack of sleep so I say at the bus hub for 1 hour and 15 minutes waiting for the bus to arrive.
Catch local bus number 1, 5 stops. Asked a local man for help how to walk to theuniversity. It was helpful! Google maps said it should take 14min to walk downhill. I used 15 min cause of my to bad knees. Totally okay walk through some forest.
Arriving the university…
Got here 😊.
And now I’m resting my head, eyes and body in a couch 😊😊. Asked at the service front if it was possible to set my backpacker somewhere during the day, instead of carrying it around all day. I will now try to take a power-nap. The official day starts 09.30 am.
What most people I know did in their twenties, study at a University, because that’s how society tradition looks like. I out burned myself in that time of life. Was to sick for work for 5 years. And when I finally could work I could not work 100%. I have been working everything between 50 % and 80 % for fifteen years. My brain had still issues to cope with to much stress. But I have been working 100% the past two years and my brain cope 😊. It only took me twenty two years to get back 🤪.
This spring has been most interesting because I have applied to uni (university). And the waiting on “will I get in or not?” And make sure I always have something to do instead of worrying has been long! I applied in March and would get the results the 20th of July.
The Lord has prepared me for this period in life for the past four years.
I received a message, that I got in. Yay happiness for a very short moment 😆😅. Some where something went wrong 🤪😅. I know I double checked that I had applied to the right program. Anyway I got into a program I really don’t want to take!😆😆. So on the 20th of July I applied on rest spots. “🤞🤞🤞🙏🙏🙏 please let me get in”.
Deadline for the answer on the rest spots is 31st of July. So my holiday in Sweden was perfect so I would not think to much.
Today is the 30th of July. 4.40 pm I got a txt message that I had a message from the company my application goes through here in Norway. I was surprised that I had a message already! And you know, I got one of the rest spots 🙏🙏🙏🤩🤩🤩.
Teacher Education, a master (5 years), art&craft 😍.
The Lord knew. He had his plan. He knows what is perfect for me. ✝️🙏
I am so happy and thankful that is my turn to do university. It’s full-time, online and gathering studies, a master (5 years). My plan is to work two days a week and be online with my program three day’s a week. Find a café or a library. I’m so motivated. Looking forward this new phase of my life!
Always Trusting in my Lord because he provides for me.
Friday 25th I had to do some changes on my trip. From having a plan to catch the bus-for-train and then train back home on Saturday 1pm,to receive an email with information that that specific train was cancelled because of some issues on the track. I just don’t do bus (because of my injury knee), so I cancelled the ticket and bought a new one for Sunday. And got more time to spend with my friend C and her family 😊😊.
So here comes Saturday 26th…I woke up 6 am 🤪 an okay day 🌡- vice, with only +21 at 9 am and nit more than +25 as the warmest 😊.
I went shopping with my friend C. Helping her to get “the perfect feeling” off the bathroom off hers. We went to eight stores to find thee basket 🤪😆, rectangular basket she had in mind.
She ended up with both round and rectangular and she just realised that’s how it is when the fashion changes and your brain don’t. We had good laugh at that 😆.
The evening past and closer to 5 pm we finally went for a swim in Nøklevann which is a lake in Oslo – Bøler suburb.
I swam approxy 200 meters (good for me) who hasn’t been swimming for at least 6 months and the last time I swam proper was in a pool with work.
I miss swimming, think I am gonna try that this year. Anyway.
Saturday 26th.
After my good swim I just walked in the water while I waited on the others to get up.
My potato salad with lots of green veggie and pumpkin seeds and oil.
Sunday 27th.
Slow Sunday and ice cream. Metro Bøler – Oslo at 8.54 pm.
All day was medium hot with a temperature between +21 and +26°C. I catch the metro at 8.54 pm to get down to the track for bus-for-train in good time. More then 30 minutes until the bus would go.
But it actually went down to +24°C at 10 pm, when we stood in line of a que to get on the bus-for-train towards Kongsberg.
Track 19 on one side and track 30 to 36 and bus-for-train on the other side.
The bus-for-train arrived Kongsberg 11.15 pm and we were lucky to travel by train 😊 to Stavanger. It was freezing cold on the train. I think it’s okay to get the temperature to drop a bit. But almost every second person had warm clothes on or a light blanket to not freeze. And I have to that’s crazy!
We arrived 20 minutes earlier than planned, which was 07.05 am. It was raining and only +15°C outdoors 🥶🥶🥶. And offcourse it didn’t help I was tired, had slept bad and was cold from the train.
But I catch an earlier local bus home. Had coffee and breakfast at home 😊. And a blessed power-nap of 1 hour and 30 minutes 🤩. I had to come home latest Monday because I had an appointment.
A short walk between the X-ray and the nearest tiny mall and meeting with my friend.
The rest of the day I walked a lot to stay awake 😆. Had a chai latte with a friend I haven’t seen in a year in Sandnes 😊. In my favourite café of Espressohouse.
Today we checking out from our lovely apartment hotel…
A bit stressed to take a picture from checking out…
I woke up this morning with a text message from the company I should travel with tomorrow. They have some issues with the train tracks.. 😔. And today find a new tick was hard. I guess many people was trying at the same time 🤪.
We took the bus into the train station and found a locker to okay price off 69sek t hour and if you need more time you pay 69 sek / hour after that. Maximum payment is 299 sek for 24 hours.
We catch a tram (number 6 or 9 (I don’t remember). On the way out of the tram I got a hotflush 🥵🥵 . I didn’t have time to say anything to Annica so she started to walk to the shop we had planned while I tried to just past the tram track 🤪😔😵💫🤢. Because I was dizzy & nauseas.
But we got what we needed a bit later 😆 than planned. We had lunch at MAX Burger, a must for me when I’m in Sweden.
2.20 pm we huged and said goodbye and will travel back home. Me first to Oslo where I will stay with friends I haven’t seen for four years. And my friend Annica travel back to her family.
Bye bye Gothenburg this time.
Hello Oslo.
Arriving Oslo 6 pm and it was as hot as in Gothenburg 🥵. But it was nice to take the metro east bound to my friend and her family in the suburb Bøler. Just enjoying being with friends I haven’t seen in four years. Eat late dinner and talk about things.
You know the feeling when you really want to sleep in long and just can’t. That’s how this holiday in Gothenburghas been so far 😆😆. Normally I can sleep longer but then I also managed to be up late 😆. But when you have activities almost all day long you actually get tired early.
It’s the fourth day with my best friend Annica in Gothenburg. New things to explore. Today we went to Mölndals Kvarnby – the mill village of Mölndal.
The start of the climbing up hills in the high temperature of +25 around11.40 am and later +27° (but it felt like +30° C.
I was about to melt away when we walked up the slopes to Mölndals Kvarnby. Farthest up the hill was a secondhand shop. My friend Annica wanted to go in so I joined her. Oh, luck it was 😊, because inside I found a blouse that was perfectly thin for this heat!
The blouse from 2ndhand
Here I have it on, on the way towards Oslo 😉
Walking down hills in between houses.Lunch at Sushi King Mölndal. This is just some information in English. About the textile and oil industry here in Mölndal. Contact information in English. More information in English.
While we were waiting on the tram into Gothenburg center again we changed our plans from Church Safari to just go to one store and head back to the hotel. One of the reasons was my sad back and thirty minutes later the sudden rain 😆😆.
The good thing with the rain was at least one thing. I got to use my rain jacket when the sky suddenly opened up.
Some thunderstorm today too. But still warm enough to not get cold.
After a cup of coffee when we got back to the hotel (around4 pm), and a power-nap for both me and my friend Annica we had late dinner. And went for a walk in the neighbourhood to the hotel. Here are those photos 😉.
From the opposite side of the Waterfront Cabins. The pire shaped bridge in the background. The bridge we past every time to get into the city. Just a cool colourful building. Ferry port.Me with “the giraffes” in the background 😉Beautiful sky and clouds. Picture taken between 8 and 9 pm.Be serious or not… selfie-time 😉.How to “catch” the “giraffe” in the background…Laughing cramps and the “giraffe”…Last picture, try to look “normal us”.Art. Art and building. Art pillar. Walking path and art.
We have had a wonderful holiday here in Gothenburg! We have taken the day’s as they came with exploring in the hot weather 🥵. Done the most out of it as it fit us. We are pleased and tomorrow is departing day.
Hope you enjoy reading about what we have done and that you will get some tips on what to do if you choose to go to Gothenburg!
Starting later today but with breakfast and Coffee on the “balcony”. It’s a bit more grey clouds this morning but the around the same temperature (+23°C) 10 am.
Today’s goal is the botanical garden. Something the both of us love. I don’t have much that looks like a garden at home… but always dream of something I can make a garden in or off. And today we’ll walk in a huge garden and receive even more idea’s or just inspiration for a future garden 😉.
The weather forecast today is grey and cloudy but it’s predicted to be up to +28°C even today. A good day for this kind of adventure!
We catch a local bus down to Brunnsparken and switch to a tram towards The botanical garden. We took tram nr 2.From the tram stop, you walk up to the main road and past it (walk over). And on this side of the road you find this sign.On your walk (straight ahead) you past those (cute) interesting houses with decor. The entrance to the botanical garden.
This is the area = the garden.
Information in English.
Information in German.
We past the gates 12pm. And stroll slowly through this magnificent garden. We had really good weather! A good combination of ⛅️🌤☀️ and wind and a temperature between +23° and +26°C.
And here are some of the flowers I liked…
The botanical garden. 😊
Through the school garden and interesting tree garden…
… I had to stop to cool down my feet’s…
” Over heated feet’s “
Our lunch around 2pm in the shadow 😊.
After the lunch we walked towards the Japanese garden.
And when we came to a fence we thought we would end up in an other smaller garden but we didn’t 😆. We walked through the Nature Reserve and ended up in a street with houses 😆😆 and had to walk back the to the garden once more.
The Nature Reserve.
And now it was time for 🚻 (toilet facility) and water to cool down, rest on the grass and ice cream. And a kind-of-power-nap in the grass.
While laying in the grass the wind got stronger and suddenly we heard the thunderstorm getting closer. (Around 3 – 3.30 pm). And had to walk faster to not get wet from the sudden 🌧 rain 😆.
Tram back into the city but not to Nordstan, butto Grønsakstorget (the vegitable square). Rain pooring down and yes we didn’t take our Rain jacket with us 😆. Grocery shopping and walking in the rain to the closest tram stop to get back to the hotel.
On the tram back into the city.
Waiting on a tram after grocery shopping.
Late dinner out on our ” balcony ” and yatzy with wine in the chill breeze after the thunderstorm and rainbow 😊. A perfect evening!
Our plan yesterday was to sleep in, but no I woke up 7 am and couldn’t sleep more 😆😆. Annica was awake maybe ten minutes later. We had an early breakfast and coffee. Took things like it came. No stress just relaxing.
Around 11 am we headed into the city. I had something I needed to do. The reason for this trip for me.
This is so Swedish!
Had lunch at Deg_pizzeria …
…which was really good and tasty! Totally recommend if you visit Gothenburg .
Walked around in the city…
Street art on a garage door.
Street art on the way into a mall.
Funny sign.
Instead of an icecream that would melt before you started on it, we bought each ice tea Mango + Mojito. Really good! At Espressohouse.
Continued to explore. I found and bought a shell jacket on sale 😊🤩. Got some necessary things you need during a stay on holiday. And last stop was the liquidstore (which is a special store just for alcoholic liquid and where you have to be 20 years old both in Sweden and Norway) where we got each bottle if wine. Me white wine and a new ale and Annica red wine.
Red & white, one for each taste. Trying a new ale.
Monday July 21st. Switching from the train to the bus 06.10 am and it was raining 🤪 but luckily the ☀️ was up in Oslo 07.30 am.
Good morning Oslo.
07.55 am. Espressohouse.
Here am I normally have my breakfast when I travel. But they didn’t have my favourite so I have to be satisfied with just a simple espresso. And maybe that’s smart after the sandwich I had on the train… because my stomach is upset.
I have one and a half hour in total here at the train station hub until I have to catch the bus to Gothenburg at 9 am (one hour from now).
Central Station Gothenburg.
It’s warm. +27°C , 1 pm.
I will just find a place to sit and wait on my best friend from (childhood) Sweden. She arrives 1.30 pm. The breeze is nice so this will be perfect.
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Me and my best friend Annica (since 1989).
We had lunch in the city after both of us been traveling we were starving. Ate at BK (Burger King). Bought tickets and headed towards the Waterfront Cabin Hotel which is placed next to the water with a lovely view!
Our home for 4 nights. Waterfront cabins.
We have settled in and got our coffee and can now make plans for this evening and tomorrow.
After check-in and some food we headed into the city again, around6 pm, even if we to tired to do much 😆😆😅..
Got back by bus. Made dinner and after both if us got annoyed on the (a bit to small couch for two aduldt ladies above 5″9) we moved it 😆😅. The appointment we have rent for four nights is perfect for this kind of trip/Holiday. It has some challenges if you as us are tall people 😅. But for the most it works.
To be able to stay awake at least until 11 pm we found some series to watch. Then it was good night!
Vassøy. Thursday July 17th. The day started at 09.30 am for me and the 🌡temperature was already +21°C ⛅️. I catch the first 🚍local bus 11.48 am [number 7 from Sola] down to the city centre of Stavanger. It takes approx 18min. A short busride off two stops, [with number 1], just because it goes faster than walking 😆😆. And then catching the ferry towards Vassøy island.
Ferry stop 7.
The ferry took about 15 min.
The school of Vassøy.
To get to Vassøykalven beach you just walk forward on Sørstrandveien. It takes between 10 and 15min depending on how fast you walk. It’s only 1 km. You will end up with the beach on your left side or get to a wooden bathing jetty if you walk the small path in the forest.
Vassøykalven beach. Child friendly with permanent grill facilities. Two bathing jetty’s.
The water temperature is okay today. Maybe +20°C.
A bit to much small stones for my taste in the sand while walking out in the water for a swim..
And you need to walk quite far out for the swim 😔 (at least I always needs that 😅). But it’s very Child friendly because of that.
The toilet facility on the left side and the walking path towards the suspension bridge on your right side.
Before we (me and a girlfriend) headed towards the ferry back to Stavanger ferry port we or I wanted to find the walking path for the suspension bridge over to Vassøykalven island (the calf island).
The marking to follow.
This map picture show you where it is. Vassøykalven grill (with the green dot), I didn’t walk there. We got lost 😆😆 but rhus oath led us to this… next picture.
This is Bybrua (the city bridge in Stavanger) from Vassøy island side.
If you walk from the beach towards the toilet facility and then up into the forest on your right side (see picture below) and follow the red paint you will end up at the suspension bridge. It’s no signs more than the red paint “dots”.
On the top of “the hill” before it goes down hill to the bridge.
The suspension bridge.
And on Vassøykalven island you find ruins from some kind of permanent living many (hundred?) years ago.
On the other side of this island it was like a lagoon.
Totally worth a visit! If it warmer than +20°C you can also enjoy a swim in the summer.
I live next to the seaside. A short walk off 3 minutes.
On Friday Jily 11th I got out for a walk a long the beach to explore and enjoy both the weather and the sea. All because it was to warm during the day for me 😅.
A lovely place to sit and enjoy the sea 😊.
On my walk on those big stones along the sea, I was looking for driftwood something I love to create something new off.
Bus from my closest bus stop, Stavanger University Hospital Ullandhaug.
Randaberg.
The 🌡at 11.20 am.
Walking up to the ferry..
Not the Best view 😆😆 on the ferry.
On the way 😉
On the ferry.
We made it.
How to rent a bicycle on the island.
#Paahjul #stavangerkommune #rentabycycle
The first beach few hundred meters from the ferry.
The water here was pretty okay temperature at the public beach.
Area around the lighthouse.
Just me 😉 and maybe some 🐑🐑🐑🐑.
My friends back closest and the lighthouse of Kvitsøy island.
Food break. Sandrenna.
Sandrenna.
Sandrenna.
After the break, we biked away in hope to get to the stone cross. But we were not up for the walk after the 2 km of bicycling (I had only one gear 😅 and lot’s of pain in my legs).
The stone cross is about 4 meter high, you find it at leiasundet, on the far east side of the island. It’s been there for a long time. No one knows how old it us but at least 1000 years.
On our way back to the public beach.
I walked in the water and my friend swam a little. Maybe the water 🌡 was +14 ?🤔.
The ferry port before we left to get to main land again at 3 pm.
We have had a great adventure and exploring the island as much as we had energy for. We are pleased and a bit sun burned 😆. Seen as many 🐑’s as 🏠-es I think. It was perfect to rent a bicycle to get around! And the ferry is for free if you have a monthly card for bus in Nord-Jæren.
This picture shows how we were bicycling on the island ;
The Red was the first part to the lighthouse, the Aqua Green is the second part to our first food break. The Blue is the third part towards the stone cross and the Yellow is back. In total over 6 km.
It’s summer again 😆😆. This summer will I explore the islands outside of Stavanger. If it’s to catch a ferry or a bus, we’ll see 😊.
I will explore and go on adventure both in my neighbourhood and other cities 😊.
I will start and finish projects. My first painting project was my wooden shelf
This picture is from when I lived in Ganddal 2022-23.
Here you see the original colour. While the last 1,5 year, I painted it white inside because it was to dark for me. When I moved to Grannes, I wanted a theme for my kitchen and sofa-corner. Red flower an inspiration for a fabric I have. This last week the end of June andthe first week of July I’ve painted it black on the back side 😉.
Here, from the start in May to finish last week of June-25.
I also needed to make a decision if I should keep the old furniture I’ve used as storage in the kitchen at Midjord or not. And when I realised I still need the storage, I wanted it to be black so it could pop in my small place.
Here are it is from the time in Midjord with other colours 😆.
2023 October – 2025 May.
Too today, finish with black colour around except the inside and backside, which are red.
The colour.
First day of painting.
Day 2 of painting.
Here I’m almost done with painting black and took the inside, red because I need some happy colour too.
Finish 🤩, July 4th.
And between the painting I’ve visit flower gardening
This one, Bjørkespretten, only 2 km from me 😊.
Been to IKEA to find my new shelf…
Been having a visit off this cute neighbour cat 😻.
My newest addition of furnitures, my new shelf 🤩 was delivered 6pm 4th of July 🤩.
This is from my two first weeks of Summer break 2025.
I have been living in my new house/ home for 14 day’s. I have explored where the nearest grocery store is but that one is expensive! I have also found my route from the nearest bus stop coming from work. It’s a 12 minutes walk (fast walk) and approxy 1.1 km with or against the wind.
On the way from the newest Hospital and bus hub. My neighbourhood.
My view when I wait on the morning bus 😊.
Today, May 30th, I went on an adventure to Sola center not very big but they have many shopping opportunities and gas station!
I couldn’t just stand stil (in the cold wind) and wait 30 minutes on the bus… when I was done. So I started to walk. I think that is the best way to get to know a new place.
Here I was…
…walking ” towards ” my home pasting bus stop after bus stop… I didn’t walk that far though. But I walked almost 1.5 km with a quiet heavy small backpacker on my shoulders. And in the freezing wind I didn’t want to walk to far away and not knowing where the next bus stop was.
I have been collecting coffee bags for the past two years mostly because I wanted to be able to make something new. Upcycling is a huge part of my sewing. I do it because I like to see what is possible to redesign and how I can make something new from an old product. It has started to become part of my thoughts on sustainability. What can I do with the things I live on and use in my everyday life in a sustainable way?
So, during the last day’s of packing (down) my apartment I realised I had too many blankets 🤪 and needed something or somewhere to put them in my new apartment.
I started to sew coffee bags together, and realised how many I needed 🤪 and actually had 😯😅.
Here am I just sewing bags together.
Here is one of the sides becoming the actual size.
During my sewing I realised I needed stability on the four sides 😅😆. I used old cardboard boxes.
Four of five sides on.
Here us it full with blankets and floor pillows 🤩.
I got exactly what I had need of 🤩😍. I just wished I had a semi-sewing machine 🙂🙃. For those of you who don’t know what a semi-sewing machine is, they have a longer sewing arm for bigger projects 😉. And they are for house hold, the next step in sewing machine is the industry type.
I hope I have inspired some of you to do more out the everyday things you have at home and upcycling for our world’s future!
My Birthday and latest my move 🤪. I live in a mess of boxes again 😆😆😆. This time I had to move for many reasons. But the biggest reason is, because I have applied to the University. And if I get in I will be a student for five years and that means I need a lower rent.
So for you of my followers that are Christians, please pray with me that I get in 🙏✝️.
It was also 17th of May this weekend = Norways National Day.
My Birthday was celebrated two day’s ahead with my Norwegian mother. With quality time, food and wine and 🍓.
mia-simone. svenberg 