One summer day in 2017 I took the train from Kyiv to the Polish border. The trip was part of a larger journey through Eastern Europe by train and coach. There was nothing remarkable about this trip. I drank coffee and beer and took 469 photos out the train window. These images are not exciting. They show glimpses of normal, boring, Ukrainian and European everyday life.
Which we long for today.
Here’s looking at you, Southern England.
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / A henge
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / Learning to swim
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / Cricket #1
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / UK’s no. 1 suicide spot
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / An ice cream truck in a national park
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / Summer night
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / England’s largest swannery has 800 swans and a pedal kart track
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / Low tide
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / Posing at Land’s End
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / Cricket #2
Just a flooded football field.
* Not to be confused with a 1988 Jean Claude Van Damme-flick.
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / Flood #1
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / Flood #2 (Sign reads «All activity at user’s risk» – which is kind of silly – except the fact that it is submerged under 40 centimeters of water – which gives it a sort of legitimacy. Anyway.)
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / Flood #3
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Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / Flood #4
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / Flood #5
This is a service announcement for those despairing for the lack of proper skiing conditions now that the winter holidays are upon us: there are still ample amounts of snow on parking lot P6 at the airport!
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / The downhill arena at lot P6.
I made a homemade fat ball and was promptly visited by a fat ball (obese robins FTW).
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / Fat ball. Also a suet cake.
Not at all.
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / Would you look at that total absence of spring?
Damn you, January.
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / I have never understood January.
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / I like biking. I have biked three times in the last 15 years: in 2008, 2010 and 2018. 18,812 people have biked past this sign so far I 2019. I’m impressed. Also horrified.
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / A winter coat of many colors. All of them black.
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / The name of this boat is «Sunrise» in Norwegian.
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / The first of seven landscapes
Seven landscapes seen from seat 7A during the last seven minutes of flight DY617.
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / The second of seven landscapes
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / The third of seven landscapes
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / The fourth of seven landscapes
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / The fifth of seven landscapes
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / The sixth of seven landscapes
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / The last of seven landscapes (coming in for landing now)
Photo by Eivind Senneset (© All rights reserved) / The eclipsed moon as seen this morning from a backyard in Bergen, Norway.
According to the ancient Mayan calendar, January 21st, 2019, is the day that a reasonably young man in Bergen, Norway, were to goof around in his garden with a cup of coffee, a really long lens and a thermal skirt borrowed from his girlfriend. The Mayans sure hit pretty close with that prophecy!
(Photo from my backyard, 6:40 this morning. I had this sneaking feeling that I hadn’t posted anything to this blog for a few months, and just realized «a few months» actually meant 16 months…)
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