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
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 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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It’s one of those places where you arrive after dark, spend the night and leave before first light, on your way to somewhere else, having seen naught but the immediate vicinity of your hotel. Sans daylight, you have no clue what kind of place you’re visiting. It could be a dump. It could be something boring in-between.
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