Happy Christmas, God Jul, Felice Natale to one and all!
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Patrick & Patrizia
Monday, December 09, 2002
Got some rather sad news this morning from philosopher friend and ex-NTNU colleague Anita Leirfall, now in Oslo: a whole quarter with wooden buildings from the 1850-1900 period in Thomas Angell's gate, in the antique centre of my old home city of Trondheim burned down to the ground Saturday (7.12).
Source: Aftenposten
Source: Verdens Gang
Fortunately nobody was seriously hurt in the blaze, which started in the kitchen of a restaurant in the quarter that burned to the ground. Two firemen were however treated afterwards for smoke inhalation and one for back pains.
One light point in the general gloom is that the whole zone damaged by the fire has previously been extensively documented with both photography and video by city artist Henning Meyer, who has been drawing details of the city for years, so we can be reasonably sure that at least some form of faithful reconstruction of the quarter will be possible.
Apropos the fire: here in Italy (Bologna) I hadn't heard anything at all during the weekend about the event in local and national media. Well, my interest in this particular story is very personal, since I have come to know and love Trondheim after 26 years of highly formative and happy citizenship there. But I guess that I just have to accept that it is not really considered in mass media terms as one of the most important places in the world, especially when viewed from a still rather "provincial" Bologna in the "deep south" of Europe - even though Trondheim is the ex-capital of Norway, site of the highly innovative Norwegian University of Science and Technology, as well as the largest Gothic cathedral in Scandinavia (Nidarosdomen), and not to mention its tenacious Rosenborg Football Club, who surprised everyone in Europe in 1997 by beating AC Milan 2-1, eliminating them from the Champion's League Cup that year...
Anyway, here are a few links to websites with news stories about Saturday's Trondheim fire:
Norway Post (English)
Norway Post (English)
Verdens Gang (Norwegian)
Branmannen (Norwegian)
NRK Trøndelag
Archive of reports from NRK Trøndelag
Source: Aftenposten
Source: Verdens Gang
Fortunately nobody was seriously hurt in the blaze, which started in the kitchen of a restaurant in the quarter that burned to the ground. Two firemen were however treated afterwards for smoke inhalation and one for back pains.
One light point in the general gloom is that the whole zone damaged by the fire has previously been extensively documented with both photography and video by city artist Henning Meyer, who has been drawing details of the city for years, so we can be reasonably sure that at least some form of faithful reconstruction of the quarter will be possible.
Apropos the fire: here in Italy (Bologna) I hadn't heard anything at all during the weekend about the event in local and national media. Well, my interest in this particular story is very personal, since I have come to know and love Trondheim after 26 years of highly formative and happy citizenship there. But I guess that I just have to accept that it is not really considered in mass media terms as one of the most important places in the world, especially when viewed from a still rather "provincial" Bologna in the "deep south" of Europe - even though Trondheim is the ex-capital of Norway, site of the highly innovative Norwegian University of Science and Technology, as well as the largest Gothic cathedral in Scandinavia (Nidarosdomen), and not to mention its tenacious Rosenborg Football Club, who surprised everyone in Europe in 1997 by beating AC Milan 2-1, eliminating them from the Champion's League Cup that year...
Anyway, here are a few links to websites with news stories about Saturday's Trondheim fire:
Norway Post (English)
Norway Post (English)
Verdens Gang (Norwegian)
Branmannen (Norwegian)
NRK Trøndelag
Archive of reports from NRK Trøndelag
Friday, September 20, 2002
Oh well, back to work again after the summer... sigh.
Well, I don't really mean that, but as you all know, it's always a bit of a mini-trauma to start back after a holiday, and this year's holiday was R-E-A-L-L-Y nice and relaxing, so that makes diving right back into the running of an admission test and before-term-start exams even harder!
The reason is that we have just spent a whole month, give or take a day or two, in Turkey. First a trip in a ciaico with Patrizia M., Chicco and a group of other friends along the coast from Gocek to Antalya, from which point the two of us left the group to drive our hired car all the way to the Armenia/ Iran/ Iraq border zone.
What a beautiful, majestic country Turkey is, full of constant surprises and lots of kindly people -- and it's VERY, VERY large indeed! One of the most enchanting parts we encountered on our journey was Eastern Anatolia. In all we drove over 4000 km this summer: Antalya - Konya - Cappadoccia - Mt. Nemrut - Lake Van - Kars - Ani - The Georgian Valleys - Mt. Ararat - Dogubeyazit - Lake Van again, then a internal flight to Istanbul, from where we flew back to Milano and Bologna
To be recommended!!
[Some of our own photos from the trip will hopefully follow soon...]
Well, I don't really mean that, but as you all know, it's always a bit of a mini-trauma to start back after a holiday, and this year's holiday was R-E-A-L-L-Y nice and relaxing, so that makes diving right back into the running of an admission test and before-term-start exams even harder!
The reason is that we have just spent a whole month, give or take a day or two, in Turkey. First a trip in a ciaico with Patrizia M., Chicco and a group of other friends along the coast from Gocek to Antalya, from which point the two of us left the group to drive our hired car all the way to the Armenia/ Iran/ Iraq border zone.
What a beautiful, majestic country Turkey is, full of constant surprises and lots of kindly people -- and it's VERY, VERY large indeed! One of the most enchanting parts we encountered on our journey was Eastern Anatolia. In all we drove over 4000 km this summer: Antalya - Konya - Cappadoccia - Mt. Nemrut - Lake Van - Kars - Ani - The Georgian Valleys - Mt. Ararat - Dogubeyazit - Lake Van again, then a internal flight to Istanbul, from where we flew back to Milano and Bologna
To be recommended!!
[Some of our own photos from the trip will hopefully follow soon...]
Saturday, April 13, 2002
Thursday, March 28, 2002
Friday, December 21, 2001
Lots of Christmas cheer and all our very best wishes to one and all for the holiday, and for the New Year too!
Our Christmas greetings page is here - leave a comment/ message if you like!
Our Christmas greetings page is here - leave a comment/ message if you like!
Monday, December 17, 2001
Grrrrr, rats! At home with a miserable sniffy cold today. Obviously a result of the cold snap the last few days, coupled with a three hour!! (usually takes one) drive from Reggio Emilia to Bologna in the dark, snow, wind and sleet last Thursday evening, after it began to snow while I was in Reggio for a meeting. Total chaos on local roads in Reggio, and the autostrada only just barely driveable from Reggio to Modena South... Rather miserable journey, all in all, but at least I managed to get home again!!
Friday, December 14, 2001
Sunday, November 11, 2001
Just added the excellent "Comment" function today, courtesy of the "Blog Back" site.
Thanx a million, BB folks!
Friday, July 20, 2001
Friday, June 15, 2001
Wednesday, June 13, 2001
NEWSFLASH!
Patrizia's book "Significato ed Esperienza" has now been released in English translation (by Jeremy Carden)
Title: "Meaning and Experience" More information here...
Patrizia's book "Significato ed Esperienza" has now been released in English translation (by Jeremy Carden)
Title: "Meaning and Experience" More information here...
Friday, June 08, 2001
Here is a link to a few of the many pictures we took on our Easter 2001 trip to Nepal.
We flew from Bologna via Milan to Kathmandu, where we spent a few days looking around and also met our sherpa Shiva, who would lead our trekking team down the magnificent Kali Ghandaki valley running north-south along the west flank of the Annapurna massif. From Kathmandu we travelled by car to Pokhara, where we spent a brief night. Very early the next morning we left Pokhara in a tiny plane for the mountain town of Jomsun, which lies at the top of the Kali Ghandaki valley (at a height of about 3000 m).
From there we trekked over eight days back down to Nayapul (traversing the Ghorepani Pass, which involved a slow ascent from around 1000 m at Tatopani, up to ca. 3000 m at Ghorepani, and then back down to around 900 m at Nayapul, in the course of three days).
At Nayapul, a car was waiting to take us back to a quiet and pleasant resort bungalow at Begnas Lake, a few kilometers to the northeast of Pokhara. Here we spent a very relaxing night, before heading back by car again to Kathmandu for a few more days while awaiting our return flight to Italy.
A truly splendid trip, which we will hopefully get around to documenting in some more detail at this space a bit later on.
Some websites we visited for information and inspiration
Mappatour Travel, Rome who helped us plan and organise our trip.
Hotel Tibet, where we stayed in Kathmandu.
Yeti Zone A useful site with a bulletin board with a lot of up to date information from other travellers.
Photoseek A photographic report of a trip round Annapurna.
Wired2the WorldA collection of personal diaries from more or less the same trek as ours.
We flew from Bologna via Milan to Kathmandu, where we spent a few days looking around and also met our sherpa Shiva, who would lead our trekking team down the magnificent Kali Ghandaki valley running north-south along the west flank of the Annapurna massif. From Kathmandu we travelled by car to Pokhara, where we spent a brief night. Very early the next morning we left Pokhara in a tiny plane for the mountain town of Jomsun, which lies at the top of the Kali Ghandaki valley (at a height of about 3000 m).
From there we trekked over eight days back down to Nayapul (traversing the Ghorepani Pass, which involved a slow ascent from around 1000 m at Tatopani, up to ca. 3000 m at Ghorepani, and then back down to around 900 m at Nayapul, in the course of three days).
At Nayapul, a car was waiting to take us back to a quiet and pleasant resort bungalow at Begnas Lake, a few kilometers to the northeast of Pokhara. Here we spent a very relaxing night, before heading back by car again to Kathmandu for a few more days while awaiting our return flight to Italy.
A truly splendid trip, which we will hopefully get around to documenting in some more detail at this space a bit later on.
Some websites we visited for information and inspiration
Mappatour Travel, Rome who helped us plan and organise our trip.
Hotel Tibet, where we stayed in Kathmandu.
Yeti Zone A useful site with a bulletin board with a lot of up to date information from other travellers.
Photoseek A photographic report of a trip round Annapurna.
Wired2the WorldA collection of personal diaries from more or less the same trek as ours.
Tuesday, May 29, 2001
Hi all..
OK, so this is our private page "on the air" at last. It's taken us some time to get started on it, but now we're really up and running.
We've chosen the weblog format (courtesy of Blogger), because we like the possibility this provides to develop a more fluid, interological* (rather than phenomenological) style of communication...
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* Thanks to Pat's Norwegian friend and colleague Lars Sigfred Evensen for this useful metaphor (if you want a more detailed explanation of the concept, feel free to contact Patrick at the e-mail address elsewhere on this page)
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