Mount Everest, also called Chomolungma or Qomolangma or Sagarmatha.
This weekend we went to a lecture of a Belgian guy, Robert Huygh, who climbed the Mount Everest. I have always been fascinated by the Mount Everest and the stories of people who tried to climb it.
Photo by Star Trooper
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Yesterday we decided to do something about our “lack” of cultural knowledge.
We decided to visit the S.M.A.K. museum in Ghent.
Currently, there is an exhibition of Paul McCarthy. The name of the exhibition is HEAD SHOP/SHOP HEAD. People who don’t know him should really check out his work. The least you can say is, that it’s very special. Some keywords that can describe the exhibition and maybe give you an idea about the weirdness and diversity of the exhibition: pirates, sex, ketchup, blood, George Bush,…
“The following characterization does not pull its punches: Paul McCarthy is dirty and rotten, sexually hung-up and likes ketchup. You can say that McCarthy is an artist who does not move boundaries, but goes far beyond them.”
I’m not planning to give a personal opinion about his work of art, because it’s something you need to decided for yourself. The only thing I will say is, that people have divided opinions about it!
If you decide to visit the museum, maybe interesting to know, people from Ghent and people younger than 25 get a 2 euro discount, so don’t forget to mention it.
Photo by Steven Meert.
Two weeks ago we visited Disneyland in Paris. Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to go there. But actually until last week I never went to Disneyland before.
Even though I nagged like hell to go there, my parents didn’t like the idea of visiting Disneyland. So there I was a innocent little child that never went to Disneyland before…
After the disappointment that my parents didn’t want to go with me I found a new victim who I could try to convince to take me to Disneyland. It took me more than 7 years to convince Kris to go with me, but finally, I succeeded! (special thanks to Kris;))
I didn’t know what to expect but it was worth the 7 years of nagging (and even more).
I always thought: if you enter the park it’s not going to be any different than other amusement parks. But boy, was I wrong.
As soon as you enter the park your surrounded by magical things. The theme of the park was Halloween. The park maintenance have put so much effort in the decoration of the park. You could see pumpkins everywhere. There was a Halloween village with a Halloween parade, immediately followed by the Disney parade. Finally I could see the parade that is always shown in movies and commercials. All my favorite Disney figures, all in once:
The little mermaid,
Alice in Wonderland, …
Disneyland, a dream that actually did came true…
The Norwegian Armed Forces Museum is a historical museum, depicting Norwegian military history. The museum is located at Akershus Fortress in heart of Oslo. Admission is free at the museum, too bad I did not know that at that time (not that I would’ve had the time to visit it anyway…).
More info:
http://www.mil.no/felles/fmu/start/museet/English/
This picture shows the Oslo Opera House which is scheduled to open April 12th, 2008. Not as beautiful as the Sydney Opera House, but still a very cool construction 
Total expenditures for the building project is set at NOK 4 billion (521 million € or 745 US$).
Sorry about the lack of updates lately, but the last two weeks have been really hectic. I just got back from a business trip to Oslo on which I found some time to walk around in Oslo and take some pictures. So, expect to see a mix of Disney and Oslo pictures in the next couple of days/weeks (depending on how much time I can spend on blogging).
For now I leave you with a picture I took on top of the Akershus Fortress which shows the Norwegian flag in combination with the beautiful autumn foliage. As you can see the weather was great
This weekend, we made a trip to Disneyland Paris together with David (colleague and friend from work) and his girlfriend Elke. I think my last visit to a Disney resort was about 9 years ago, so I knew this was going to be a nostalgic weekend
We booked the trip through the internet a month in advance and the cost was 584€ for 4 persons. This included a 2 day hopper pass for the two parks and one night in Hotel Santa Fe (The cheapest Disney hotel). One of the main advantages of staying in a Disney hotel is that you can enter the main park at 8 am, two hours before the park opens, which was great for me since this allowed me to take some sunrise pictures when the park was not yet flooded with people.
The picture below was taken at 8:45 and shows the Sleeping Beauty Castle, which is the center and the main building of the park, at morning commute. The castle was inspired by the Neuschwanstein Castle in Southern Germany, which I hope we will be able to visit this winter. The last time I visited Neuschwanstein was about 15 years ago, so I don’t remember much of that trip
People who know me are probably aware of the fact that I love snowboarding.
Because of the fact that the Belgian snowboard scene is really really small, it is important to support the scene as much as possible.
Somebody I know is opening a new snowboard / skate shop in Antwerp. You should really go there and take a look at what they have because they are selling a lot of cool brands!!
Check www.real-deal.be for more info. They will be opening their shop the 27th of October!
Last week, while walking around in Sint Martens Latem, I stumbled across this old abandoned house. Apparently this used to be the gallery of painter Evarist de Buck (1892-1974). Too bad I didn’t have enough time to go closer and get some more interesting shots. Maybe worth a revisit before it gets leveled…
We all have songs we heard a lot, but don’t actually know the lyrics to. So we sing along our own versions of the song which sometimes produces hilarious results.
On YouTube you can find some great user interpretations of certain songs, of which I listed my personal favourites.
The most famous one, Nightwish – Wishmaster:
Christina Aguilera-Ain’t No Other Man:
Slayer – Angel Of Death:
Rhapsody – The Power of DragonFlame:
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