The biggest village in peperkaker in the world

During the Christmas hollidays i went to visit Bergen. There we saw the world's biggest village in peperkaker.

Merry Christmas !

I wish you all a merry Christmas will a good meal, and a good time with your friends/familly and a lot of nice presents !

Heddal church !

Heddal church is one of the 28 stave churches in Norway! There appear to have been between 750 to 1200 stave churches in Norway, but in the 19th century most of them have been destroyed and replaced by "modern" churches.

But church has been build about 900 years ago, Heddal church is one of the most beautiful in Norway! 

You can also enjoy in Norway some old attics like this one:

Backcountry skiing !

We went Wednesday for 3 days backcountry skiing in Blefjell ! We left home quite late, so we had to go to Sigrisbu cabin. The moon lighted us.

We arrived at the cabin at 8h30pm. And spend there a good and hot night.

The next day, it was snowing, and the wind blows hard, so we went outside for only 2 hours for one descent.

In Blefjell, because of the wind, the snow height varied a lot, on some places you can find more than 1metre and on other around 10cm. So it was difficult to find a good area to ski, without destroying our skis on a rock.

On the picture you can see the little cabin of Sigrisbu, on the right there is a bigger one.

In the late afternoon, the sun came to say hello.

After a cold night, we woke up with a blue sky and a warm sun, so we decided to go early in the morning to a top to go down after.

On this face there was enough snow, but you have to be careful for the stones hidden under the snow.

In the background you can see the Gaustatoppen, and on the right there is the bletoppen (the highest top of blefjell 1342moh).

Skiing down was really nice with the good snow!

And it looked like we where the first going down.

Now with the snow that is falling during the next day Blefjell area will be better to ski, with more snow.

But be careful for the avalanches! this season will be dangerous with the fragile under layer.

So be careful ! 

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Gaustatoppen

Like I said in the article just before, the Gaustatoppen is the highest mountain in Telemark. With 1883 moh, you can see from the top, with nice weather 1/6 of Norway!!!

The summit is done a lot of times each day by a lot of persons, it is around 1h30-2h to go up to the summit. Most of the persons go just until the bit tower you can see on the left. But the highest point is on the right you have to follow the arris. On the top you can enjoy in the DNT cabin some good waffles or a good meal!
On this map you can see the different places you can see from Gaustatoppen.

If you are lazy, you can also go up with the lift. It is amazing there is a lift going up, in the middle of the mountain.
For me the Gaustatoppen looks like the Kilimanjaro of Norway! he is alone, much higher than the other mountains all around, and there is often some snow on it. but it is not a volcano.
So if you have never been on it, you should go and enjoy the view, or during the winter you can enjoy going down by ski! but be careful of the avalanches! wear a beacon!

Cross country skiing

On the hills around Notodden, near to hogas you can find a nice cross country track. (on yellow on this map).

The round trip is around 1h30 or 2h depends on how fast you are. From there you have a nice view on Gaustatoppen the higest hill from Telemark: 1883moh, I will present some nice picture later on the blog.

You have also a nice view on Blefjell, (fjell means moutain in Norwegian). Blefjell is a nice moutain area near of Notodden, where i am going on wednesday to do backcountry skiing.

On this picture you can see Blefjell with a nice red sky.

Their are different methods how to do cross country skiing, I know 3 different one:

- the classic version, where you walk with your skis like if you are hikking, but with skis at your feets.

- the skating method, where you skate like in ice skating.

- and the French method, you can see it on the picture...where you walk like a duck.

Erasmus english dictionary

Some of the Erasmus students have made this nice dictionary about some typical Erasmus expressions: Enjoy!

you can add in comment some other Erasmus English expressions you heard to complete the dictionary.