The 17th of May is Norway's National Day. To help us understand exactly what this means, my project manager at the Uni kindly offered to let J and I tag along with his family to get the full experience. The day began with breakfast at his house - lots of salmon, scrambled eggs and a 'brown' cheese that tastes exactly like caramel. From there we went and watched the big parade in town - lots of marching bands and waving children, the standard parade fare really. Then we had lunch at a sushi restaurant, not at all traditional but dang fantastic food anyway! The afternoon saw us visit the local school, where Roger's daughter played the national anthem with her band. Then we toured the neighbourhood trailing the end of the small local parade. J was even seen waving to onlookers on one occasion - he is really integrating! Finally we had to eat icecream because apparently on the 17th of May Norwegian children are allowed to eat as much icecream as they like - a fabulous tradition I think! The best and most interesting thing about the day for me though was the fact that almost everyone wears 'bugnad' or national costume. They are absolutely gorgeous with lots of embroidery and silver jewellery. They are usually made by hand and there are lots of subtle differences between the outfits from different areas of Norway. They were absolutely gorgeous so I took a few pics of complete strangers just to show you all how wonderful they were! Lots of XXXXs... The ladies....
The boys...
Old meets new...
Watching the band at the local event...
1 comment:
oooh cute norwegian boys in uniform. nice! in italy the cute boys are all in the cabinieri avoiding national army service and their uniforms are quite dashing. sorry, i will stop saying 'in italy' soon. but how gorgeous is bergen in spring, i mean really!
ps did j try on some of those tights?!
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