Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Gard Karlsen shared an Instagram photo with you

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"Making a meal for guests on New Year's Eve. Lamb and duck with risotto and various vegetables. #food #foodporn #newyearseve #lamb #duck #risotto"

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Gard Karlsen shared an Instagram photo with you

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"Happy new year to all! @nikkimooki and I will be hosting a party tonight and I think we might open a champagne. Welcome @mabelcarol , @anarum , @lanivatland , @marinelalature and @edgargrimberg - wish you were here @smdv @ivarelvik @thanksforthefood @bredland Stig #grannestunet #champagne #newyearseve"

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The Instagram Team

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Gard Karlsen shared an Instagram photo with you

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"Making pizza at @lanivatland - thanks for inviting us :-) #pizza #friends @nikkimooki @marinelalature @smdv @ivarelvik @edgargrimberg "

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Gard Karlsen shared an Instagram photo with you

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"Making a cake that is called "Best-ever Chocolate Cake". I have made a few that is called "the best ever" so I'm always skeptical but this is special as Nikki brought it along when she came to Norway a few years back #chocolate #cake #chocolatecake #baking #foodporn #skeptisk #grannestunet "
(taken at Grannestunet)

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Friday, December 27, 2013

Gard Karlsen shared an Instagram photo with you

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"Trying out one of my Christmas presents. Thanks for the cufflinks @miekarlsen - I'm sure they will lead me in the right direction 😉 #cufflinks #compass #christmas #present "

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The Instagram Team

Thursday, December 26, 2013

Short Instagram summary of 2013



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"Statigram has made a summary of the most liked photos of mine in 2013 #statigram #2013 "

Celebrating Christmas South African style on Christmas day



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"Celebrating Christmas South African style. @nikkimooki was cooking up a storm in the kitchen and served chicken, lamb curry, spinach, green bean, carrots etc. #cooking #food #christmas #grannestunet "
(taken at Grannestunet)

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Family dinner at Mie and Knut as usual on Christmas eve



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"Family dinner at @miekarlsen and @knutlofthus 🎅🎄"

Christmas brunch with mor



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"Mum has been over for a Christmas brunch and we served some rice porridge and other good stuff. Now it is time to make red cabbage stew for the dinner tonight. Thanks for coming over @irmgard43 :-) #godjul #jul #christmas #rødkål #risengrøt #grannestunet "
(taken at Grannestunet)

Monday, December 23, 2013

Christmas party at Sasha and Ivar



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"Christmas party at @smdv and @ivarelvik - people brought different food and we brought deconstructed pinnekjøtt or pinnekjøtt på pinne :-) #food #foodporn #christmas #party #friends #pinnekjøtt"

Iron Maiden beer



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"Pre Xmas present from @nikkimooki : the Iron Maiden Trooper beer :-) #onthetwentythirddayofxmas #ironmaiden #trooper #beer #robinsonsbrewery #eddie "

Sunday, December 22, 2013

The Christmas tree has been decorated



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"The Christmas tree has been decorated together with @nikkimooki and the presents are wrapped 🎅🎄we are more or less ready for Christmas #christmas #christmastree #grannestunet #juletre #godjul #norway #jul "
(taken at Grannestunet)

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Happy birthday Lani!



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"Happy birthday @lanivatland ! Thanks for inviting us over to celebrate the big day! #birthday #celebration #friends"

Shopping for Christmas gifts with Mie



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"Shopping for Christmas gifts with my sis Mie @miekarlsen #christmas #jul #kvadrat"
(taken at Kvadrat)

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Hunting down the perfect Christmas tree



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"Hunting down the perfect Christmas tree with @nikkimooki - soon it will decorate our living room :-) #christmas #christmastree #jul #juletre 🎄🎅"
(taken at Plantasjen)

Happy birthday dear mum!



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"Happy birthday dear mum! Hope you will have a great day and that there will be many more to come - send her greetings using @irmgard43 #birthday #mum #family #hurra"

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Celebrating mums 70th birthday



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"Celebrating mums 70th birthday - her birthday is on Tuesday 17th but we had a family celebration today. She got an iPad and a Kindle as she loves to read. Send her greetings on Tuesday - her name here on Instagram is @irmgard43 #birthday #kindle #amazon #ipadmini"
(taken at Grannestunet)

Thanks for all the Christmas cards



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"Thanks for all the Christmas cards! We do have room for more #christmas #christmascards #julekort"

Saturday, December 14, 2013

The sound when oilers scores a goal is pretty intense



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"The sound when oilers scores a goal is pretty intense :-) #oilers #stavanger #icehockey #instavideo"

Watching Stavanger Oilers play for the first time



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"Watching Stavanger Oilers play for the first time - after the first period Oilers is in the lead :-) #stavanger #Oilers #icehockey"
(taken at DNB Arena)

Jogging at Mosvannet



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"The weather has very calm at #Mosvannet today - but only a week back #stavanger and #rogaland was bit by a bad #storm . @yrbilder did not categorize it as extreme weather but it still managed to topple huge trees around the lake. Good thing I stayed indoors that night ;-) #weather "
(taken at Mosvannet)

Friday, December 13, 2013

Chocolate workshop



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"Chocolate workshop :-) #chocolate "

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Day trip to Oslo for work



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"As you can tell, Christmas is an important event in Norway. Gate 17 at Stavanger airport has been turned into the Christmas gate with a lot of decorations :-) #svg #airport #stavanger #christmas #jul #christmastree #juletre @svgairport "
(taken at Stavanger Lufthavn, Sola (SVG))

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Making pepperkakehus



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"And the winner is: Empire State Building - we made Stavanger konserthus but we didn't win :-( #pepperkakehus #stavanger #grannestunet #empirestatebuilding @stavangerkonserthus "

Making pepperkakehus with the neighbors

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"The annual gingerbread house bake competition in Grannestunet - our team is going for gold #jul #christmas #pepperkakehus #grannestunet "
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At Pepperkakebyen



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"At Pepperkakebyen - gingerbread houses to get inspired before the contest tonight in our neighborhood #grannestunet #pepperkakehus #gingerbread "

A winter view from our kitchen



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"A winter view from our kitchen window today #stavanger #snow #morning #view #christmas #jul #grannestunet"
(taken at Grannestunet)

Winter weather in Stavanger



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"A rabbit or two had to bite the bullet to make my hat but it keeps me warm in the blizzard :-) #stavanger #blizzard #hat"

Friday, December 6, 2013

Winter weather



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"It is not easy to walk around downtown Stavanger in a blizzard! #stavanger #norway #blizzard #snow "
(taken at Klubbgaten)

Thanks for the cool cufflinks



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"Thanks for the cool cufflinks @mabelcarol and @anarum - I look forward to wearing them :-) #gift #christmas #cufflinks"

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Christmas calendar



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"@nikkimooki makes a Christmas calendar for me and today it contains some lovely milk chocolate. I'm sure I will enjoy that later on 😃 #freia #chocolate #xmas #jul #julekalender "

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Last match of the season



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"Last match of the season was not a huge success. I lost 3-1 and the Wilson racquet that I got fixed 2-3 weeks ago got busted #wilson #squash #sports #stavanger #royneberg #toppform"
(taken at Toppform Sola)

Christmas decorations in the streets of Stavanger



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"Christmas decorations in the streets of Stavanger ;-) it looked pretty good when we stopped by the downtown area on Sunday afternoon - the only thing missing is a bit of snow ;-) #christmas #stavanger #jul #godjul #norway "

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Lighting of the Christmas tree in Stavanger



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"Lighting of the Christmas tree in Stavanger #stavanger #norway #xmas #christmas #countdown #godjul #juletre"
(taken at Domkirkeplassen)

Back home in Stavanger



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"Back home with @nikkimooki and we are checking the lighting of the Christmas tree #stavanger "
(taken at Domkirkeplassen)

Saturday, November 30, 2013

The CCTV headquarters building



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"The CCTV headquarters building is quite an iconic building in Beijing #beijing #china #architecture #skyscraper #building #cctv #cityscene"

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Kjerag is famous all over the world



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"Kjerag is famous all over the world - this is from earlier today in a Beijing taxi. The screen showed a short movies with some extreme sports and first clip was from Kjerag #kjerag #kjeragbolten #norway #beijing #taxi #travel #stavanger @regionstavanger "

Monday, November 25, 2013

Trying out the local food



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"Excellent meal today where I got to try out spicy duck head and pigeon - and of course local beer #china #beijing #beer #duck #food #foodporn #pigeon #chinese #travel "

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Looking at some really nice IWC watches



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"Looking at some really nice IWC watches at Otteren at the annual 'guttekveld' - we enjoyed some Norwegian Christmas ale and drooled over these stunning watches - the perpetual calendar platinum limited edition was amazing! #iwc #stavanger #otteren #watchporn #juleøl #christmasale #lervig "
(taken at Otteren Stavanger)

Tried the new Billett app from Kolumbus today



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"Tried the new Billett app from Kolumbus today - finally it is possible to pay the bus ticket with the call phone #billett #app #busticket #stavanger #kolumbus #norway #technology #progress"

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Celebrating Gyda's birthday



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"My sister Mie (@miekarlsen ) makes the best sweet buns - they are amazing when they are fresh and it is excellent to put brown goat cheese and strawberry jam on them. The cakes were for @gydalo as she turned 16: an Oreo ice cake and a marzipan cake #birthday #oreo #brunost #boller #icecake"

Happy birthday to Gyda

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"Happy birthday to my niece @gydalo - she turns 16 today!!! #family #birthday #niece #happybirthday"

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Thanksgiving dinner with friends



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"Thanksgiving dinner with friends - thanks to @thanksforthefood and @bredland for being host/hostess and to @smdv and @ivarelvik for hosting ;-) #turkey #food #friends #thanksgiving"

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Sushi night



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"Sushi night with @nikkimooki , @mabelcarol and @anarum ;-) #sabisushi #sushi #food #stavanger "
(taken at Sabi Sushi)

Invitation to the watch evening



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"It is that time of the year again...the invitation to a boys night out to check out watches and drink Christmas ale #guttekveld #iwc #stavanger #watchnight #christmas #klokkekveld #juleøl"

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

At the movies to see Gravity



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"Went to the movies to see Gravity and it was an intense movie! It would have been even better if the woman right behind us didn't talk during the entire movie #stavanger #gravity #3D #movie #sfkino #kino"
(taken at SF Kino)

Monday, November 11, 2013

It is time for a new iPhone



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"It is time for a new iPhone  #iphone #iphone5s #technology #apple "

Not a good sign when the car indicates engine fault



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"Not a good sign when the car indicates engine fault #vw #golf #car #enginefault"
(taken at Møller Bil Stavanger)

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Stopped by Reed Gallery



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"Stopped by Reed Gallery to check out the new Sandra Chevrier show. It seems like most of the work has been sold already! Well done :-) #sandrachevrier #art #instaart #superman #stavanger #norway"
(taken at ReedProjects Gallery)

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Enjoying some Vietnamese drip coffee



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"Enjoying some Vietnamese drip coffee - lots of flavor and quite strong #coffee #Vietnam #Saigon #dripcoffee #trungnguyencoffee "
(taken at Trung Nguyen Coffee)