#9 Norway: How I came across a golden-scaled loo in the Lofoten Islands...

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Logbuch Podcast is back with episode 9: travel journalist Kiki Baron and musician Jonas Ross (Jon Ives) talk about their experiences in Norway. The focus is on different regions of the country and the interplay or contrast between exciting nature and fascinating architecture. Back in the noughties, the Norwegian government launched the Landscape Routes project. And invited young architects to integrate fabulous architectural structures into the terrain along the most beautiful routes. Such as viewing platforms, rest areas or even outdoor toilets.

Kiki reports on the new Oslo, which is so different today than it was 20 years ago. Jonas talks about his touching experiences of nature while shooting videos for his first album. We continue to the old Hanseatic city of Bergen, where Kiki meets the shell man Alf Roald Saetre, and then takes an e-bike across the Lofoten Islands. Experiences in Norway's highest north, namely Spitsbergen, round off the podcast.

We start in Oslo (03:00) with impressions of Norway's capital almost 20 years ago in contrast to the new achievements in terms of architecture and art. Anyone sailing from Kiel to Oslo on the Color Line has some attractive districts right in their sights. Tjuvholmen in particular is a delight, as are Aker Brygge and the Ekeberg Sculpture Park (13:00). Jonas takes us on a shoot in southwest Norway (15:45) and discovers Loshavn, a historic settlement that looks like a ghost village in spring (21:56).

In Kvinesdal he meets Olaf, who lives like a hermit, catches crabs and lives in a wondrous house (24:15).

On an island off Bergen, another Norwegian original comes into play, the host of the fish restaurant "Cornelius" (29:00). On a trip to the historic port city of Bergen (35:00), Kiki has an unusual experience at the bar of Hotel Solstrand (37:05). The day tour "Norway in a nutshell" combines a train ride and a fjord cruise (41:00). Bacalao, the nutritious stockfish that mainly comes from the Lofoten Islands, is not to everyone's taste (42:50). This in turn brings Kiki to her experiences on this archipelago, where she is confronted with scary fish heads (46:21). Thanks to an organized e-bike tour by @Inselhüpfen, she discovered the Lofoten up close (51:00). What are the landscape routes all about and what is an Utedo? One of the architectural highlights is a toilet covered in golden scales (1:00:30). Finally, Kiki talks about her trip with @Hurtigrouten through the island world of Spitsbergen (1:05:22). She dreams of a cruise on MS "Cape Race" from mare publisher Nikolaus Gelpke, but first takes a look at the international seed depot in the capital Longyearbyen. Jonas says goodbye with a story about the incredible hospitality at a petrol station (1:19:15).



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