Have just returned from my trip to Svalbard, which was part of a course on “Climatic changes in the Arctic region” that I’m currently following…
Svalsat (link):
Fossile of a leaf…around 65 million years old:
Polar bear guard…No one leaves Longyearbyen without being armed:
Madsen @ Scott Turner Glacier:
Unbelievable place…and just 800 km from the North Pole…
An tourist shot and killed a polar bear that had pulled his travel companion out of their tent on the Norwegian arctic archipelago of Svalbard.
The polar bear came into the tourist’s tent, grabbed one of them and pulled him for about 40 metres (yards) before his companion got out and shot the bear, the governor [...]
We’re watching the England vs. USA World Cup match…I love soccer while she couldn’t care less:
Girlfriend: “…by the way…what’s Rooneys first name?…”
Me: “Pepper!”
Girlfriend:”OK…”
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Girlfriend:”What’s so funny?”
Me (can hardly breathe):”…nothing…hehe”
I promise this’ll be the one and only “kitten entry” here at Madsenblog….anyway…Look what I found down at the nearby stables today…7 kittens…pretty damn cute…and feisty.
Tror jeg har fundet på historiens ringeste, men også hurtigste ret…har dog endnu ikke haft mod til at prøve den:
1. Kog pastaen.
2. Varm indholdet af et glas Glyngøre karrysild i en gryde.
3. Bland.
4. Spis.
Enjoy…
We just got a dog a couple of days ago…A 5-year-old Cairn Terrier (terrier…like in terror!) which needed a new home. We already have a cat, Vagn, and…well…Cairn Terriers were bred to chase small fury critters, and Vagn, being a small fury critter, is finding the currrent situation somewhat challenging to say the least.
He’s spent [...]
…I’m coming for a short visit!” (For those of you unfamiliar with the Norway/Denmark relationship…Danes lovingly call Norwegians “mountain apes”, while Norwegians refer to Danes “lowland monkeys”)
Anyway…I’m going to Norway…actually…I’m going to visit a group of islands called Svalbard located in the Arctic Ocean midway between Norway and The North Pole.
Between the 22nd and [...]
A few vids from the concert…one heck of a great show!!
Martin Gore had just finished an acapella version of “Home” and the audience wouldn’t let it go so to speak:
Came pretty close to the stage and managed to get this shot which would make Francis Ford Coppola’s camera man green with envy:
Enjoy…
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