This is a view of Bjørnhollia from the shortcut, a path that I normally use to get down there ... the road curves and takes up to several minutes more to walk. ;-) The red T is the symbol of the Norwegian Tourist Association; they use it to mark the accepted tracks through the various wildernesses in our lovely country. :-)
Front left: the managers' house; front right: the old sleeping quarters. Back left: the employees' residence. Center: the main building, which houses the kitchens, the common room, cellars, dining hall, various sleeping quarters.
Front: the byre; back: employees' residence and main building; center: the dormitory building.
A view of the whole place, seen from across the valley, ie, the slope of mount Musvollkampen.
These pictures (above) were all taken in the summer of 2005. But nothing's changed since then. :-)
This is our cabin; the front view when you come walking down the path from the road. This entire side of it is the new addition. Well, 'new' addition. :-) The tiny building in the background is the new outhouse.
The back of the building. That's my mother you see putting some fresh varnish on the window frames in the kitchen. :-)
The old outhouse (left), now part woodshed and part storage shed, and the new woodshed (right). The new outhouse also doubles as an extra woodshed. We like to know we have plenty of wood to burn. :-)
Side view of the old outhouse. My grandfather built this in the fifties.
The new outhouse, right, and the new woodshed. (Yeah, they're not new, we just call them that ... cause everything else is so much older.)
The cabin seen from outside the new outhouse. The old outhouse in the foreground ... as you see.
A couple of views of the living room. We spend most of our time either outside or in this room.
The kitchen. Not entirely tidy ... this was taken on the day we were leaving.
My grandmother's room. My room now, I guess. :-(
Mount Musvollkampen seen from our property.
The cabin seen from the path from the road. When you're standing where I was when I took the picture, you're literally a few seconds' walk away from the house. So it's pretty well concealed. From the road you have no idea that it's there. :-)
You can see the house in this photo, but just barely ...
In closing, another view of Bjørnhollia - a very charming one if I do say so myself - with mount Musvollkampen in the background. This picture was taken this year. Doesn't it look wonderful there? Don't you just want to walk in there and put your feet up and get a nice cup of coffee? :-)
You'd be more than welcome to!! :-)
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There's one picture in this post that I can't make clickable. Or link to, whatever. I've tried four or five times now and it doesn't work. So ... either I leave it alone now or I smash something valuable.
I'll have to go with ... option number one.
lovely. love the grass on the roof
is the smaller table for the kids, ie you :p
The turf on the roof is traditional in this country. A lot of cabins have roofs like that. It looks really beautiful ... if it's cared for properly, at least. :-)
The tiny table is the old coffee table that we used before we expanded the building and got room for a real coffee table. :-) We hardly use it now, except of course to pile stuff on, it comes in very handy for that.
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