March 25, 2018

Hospital room with a view. Kalnes in Norway


Should you spend some days in a hospital - I can for sure recommend the regional Hospital Kalnes outside of Sapsborg in Norway.

Spacious single rooms with a view to the water and forest landscape in the back and then the birds making the only sounds you can hear.

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Sykehuset Østfold provides specialist health care services within somatic and mental health to the about 280 000 inhabitants of Østfold county. Sykehuset Østfold runs hospitals in Sarpsborg and Moss, and provides local mental health care services at five locations.

November 2nd 2015 Sykehuset Østfold Fredrikstad relocated to a brand new state-of-the-art hospital building located at Kalnes in Sarpsborg. Health care professionals and architects have, through close collaboration, designed a hospital that offers therapeutic and operational efficiency at the absolute elite level.  As well as creating premises with an atmosphere that is perceived as welcoming, friendly and accommodating by the patients, the relatives, and the staff. Single room wards, new and advanced medical- and diagnostics equipment including PET/CT, and highly automatized logistics systems are just some of the features included in the new hospital.

With 5000 employees, Sykehuset Østfold is one of Østfold’s largest workplaces.

March 10, 2018

Traditional cottage in the winter. Valdres, Norway

A fine winter day around this old traditional cottage up in the mountains in Valdres.
One of the app 400 000 cottages Norwegian love to use in their holidays at the sea or in the mountains.

March 2, 2018

Arrival to the winter village Bagn in Valdres, Norway


Last stop before the mountain is for many this little village, Bagn, along E16, app 2,5hrs outside of Oslo. You find a supermarket, a gasoline station a restaurant and some other small shops in a friendly environment in the village center.

Camera iphone6+   Corel PS

Olafs cottage in the winter. Valdres in Norway


I think there is some 400 000 cottages in Norway. Some by the sea but also many in the mountains. Most of the cottages is family owned and used inn all seasons.
Here represented by one of them. Placed in the central Mountains in Norway North West. Situated by a private road that is kept open every weekend throughout the winter.
This year there is plenty of snow  - very idyllic photo-wise.