June 7, shooting, sailing and braai

 

Daily activities June,  2008

  1. Friday
    Arrival Norway

  2. Saturday
    Boat trip & braai

  3. Sunday
    Oak forest

  4. Monday
    Back to the UK

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Summing it all up.
 

First full day in Norway was covered by three main events. Shooting range, boat trip and a braai.

To the left, an early breakfast at Jorunn's place. A packed schedule.

To the right, Martin's old junk heap of a car. Martin decided to use it till it falls apart. That is the cheapest way to drive.

Kjell, Jorunn's partner as cut down a pine tree in his garden.

He will have fire wood for some years to come.

On the road again, Lee and Walter.

Walter has a big mouth and it's open most of the time.

View from the road.

Almost at the range.

Shooting range

This is the outside entrance to the shooting range inside the mountain.

When inside, you have our (TOP's) door to our section of the mountain. The rest is used for telecommunications.

Tanya happily outside the entrance to the range.

The four of them posing in a shooting posture.

Happy bunch.

Going through the doors to the range inside the mountains. Today, it serves as a bomb shelter with heavy steel door designed to take an atomic blast no more than 10 atmospheric pressure. Originally built by the Germans during WWII as a command center.

Two views of one of the ranges. This one certified for up to .44 magnums.

Martin shows Walter a finer point of the art of shooting.

Martin shows off. Too much tummy. Martin is 14 kgs too fat.

Josh shooting plates.

Walter having a go at 25 meters. Not much success.

Sailing in the archipelago or skerries of Nøtterøy

Walter and Josh having a dip in the drink.

Beautiful view of the skerries of Nøtterøy.

The boys hard at work, showing off their swimming capabilities.

Sverre, Jorunn's second husband and the owner of the sailing boat has just had a quick swim.

Sverre's mast with the back of Walter in the foreground.

Sverre at the helm of his boat.

Fooling around, Walter and Josh.

 

The skerries again, made by the glaciers some 10-15000 years ago.

Sverre's main sail.

Walter trying to make himself useful.

Lee and Walter with his false teeth.

Walter, Lee and Josh.

Sverre, Tanya's uncle at one stage. Sverre was married to Tanya's father's youngest sister, Jourunn.

Beautiful view of the islands.

 

Summer places are abundant on Nøtterøy and the adjacent islands.

One famous house.

The main house of Husøysund, an old smugglers harbor on Nøtterøy.  

Braai at Dad Martin's place

After the sailing trip, the visitors came back to Martin's. Here you have two guests, Asbjørn a long term friend of Tanya and Paul, Tanya's oldest cousin, some 7 years older.

Asbjørn to the left and Paul to the right, rather sleepy.

Paul and Martin having an aquavit. Nice tradition Norwegian beverage.

Martin giving a toast. We are all sitting around the table to one of Martin's lodgers, JAP.

A frozen bottle of aquavit. This is the way it should be served.

Martin loves frying fat. You really appreciate how much calories there are in fat when you watch it burning for hours.

Paul and Asbjørn dishing up some more goodies from the braai.

Paul looking a little skeptical to the braai.

Paul and Dad Martin enjoying a beer.

Asbjørn and Tanya met in 1989. Tanya was then 8 years old.

Asbjørn is a nice guy, well trained and has just finished his MSc in Computer Science at Oslo University. Martin taught him computers from 1989 and onwards.

Like brother and sister, Tanya and Asbjørn has always gone along very well over the years. Asbjørn still has to visit South Africa do. He may do that when Tanya returns to this crime ridden country with some 30 000 murders a year.

Nice flames late at night burning some fat.

After the meal, the guests went for a walk at the seaside, but Josh forgot Martin's camera so there are no picture from that trip.

 

Walters photos

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Tanya leading the way to the Pine Forest

 

Martin showing the young boys how to cock and un-cock the gun

Martin giving his experienced advice at the shooting range

 Josh improving all the time

On Target!

Captain Sverre in control

Lee, Josh, Tanya and Walter on Sverre's yacht

Josh taking the steering of the yacht and doing a good job

Josh scouting where to jump next

Tanya experimenting new functions on Martin's Fiji Film

Martin won this trophy in Thailand being the tourist who took the most pictures :-)  

The next day, Sunday 8th, it was time for visit to the beech wood close to Jorunn's place. Jorunn (Jorunn sister of Tanya's Dad Martin) showed them around.
 

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