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10 October 2010 8:50
9 octobre 2010 Ce matin on a quitté la région de King City (qui porte le nom de son fondateur, rien à voir avec un roi). C’est une zone agricole qui offre des champs de broccoli, de choux de Bruxelles et d’asperges à perte de vue. Le paysage a été vite read more…
9 October 2010 9:12
After another slow start in the morning we managed to move over to the Monterey Bay Aquarium around 11am. The Monterey Bay Aquarium is located in the former premises of Hovden Cannery, a sardine canning company founded by the Norwegian Knut Hovden in 1916. Knut arrived in Monterey in 1905 read more…
8 October 2010 8:01
October 7, 2010 This morning we got up at around 8am planning to be out by 10, which was check-out time. We hadn’t prepared anything in the evening and quickly found out we had been a bit optimistic on the timing. It was difficult to get everyone into gear read more…
7 October 2010 18:05
October 6, 2010 During dinner yesterday we asked the kids what they wanted to do tomorrow (today). We gave them the choice of staying at the house and playing in the swimming pool or go up to San Francsico and visit the Exploratorium. The vote was split and Viktor was read more…
6 October 2010 8:36
Octobre 5, 2010 On a commencé la journée doucement avec un peu de travail scolaire pour Iseline et une séance de saxophone pour Viktor. Ensuite on a achevé notre pélerinage informatique en passant par le siège de Facebook. Cette fois on s’est fait gentiment chasser par un garde parce qu’on read more…
5 October 2010 9:33
October 4, 2010 At breakfast Iseline insisted on sitting on a very tall chair without a back rest. At first we did the standard cultural norming reaction of “YOU CANNOT DO THAT!” However it struck me that we had no good reasons for forbidding it, except that it was unusual. read more…
5 October 2010 7:14
October 3, 2010 We started the day with some school work for the kids. They logged in to the Norwegian online school and all 3 worked hard. And then straight out to a well deserved session in the pool. I spent the better part of the day catching up on read more…
4 October 2010 0:11
October 2, 2010 Westward going jet lag is a blessing when you want to get up early in the morning. New day, new possibilities! We had spoken about taking the train (Caltrain) to go up to San Francisco because we wanted to avoid rush hour, which can be very bad read more…
3 October 2010 20:43
October 1, 2010 The kids started wriggling at around 4 am but didn’t get out of bed until 6:30. Iseline was very hungry and had breakfast with the leftovers from yesterday’s dinner at 6:30 and then joined our common breakfast at 08:30. Impressive. We started having a closer look at our home read more…
1 October 2010 7:59
September 30, 2010 After a good nights sleep (some slept more than others) we had breakfast at the Novotel at Heathrow just before they closed the buffet at 10am local, 11am Oslo time. The kids slept from 1 am until 9:15am UK time. We had managed to adjust half the read more…
