Ryan Hellyer » Europe

Frognerparken

Ryan — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:52:11 +0000

I visited Frognerparken, a popular park in Oslo which features a bunch of strange looking statues.

Visit from Kerry

Ryan — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:23:58 +0000

My lovely friend Kerry came to visit me in Oslo We went to the local ski jump, but were met with a gloriously wonderful array of fog, fog and a little more fog.

Arctic explorers

Ryan — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:07:17 +0000

Harriet and I, ready to embark on our great arctic adventure into the untouched wilderness of the Tromsø city center.

Pizza with Harriet and Anita

Ryan — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:35:55 +0000

Dinner with Harriet and Anita. We nommed down a ridiculous amount of pizza at which point it suddenly dawned on me that I now consider a $100 bottle of wine to be cheap!

Anita showing off her super giant phone

Harriet Geoghegan enjoying the fine dining of Oslo

Anita looking overly excited about the bottle of wine we were about to drink

Worlds most northern brewery

Ryan — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:40:26 +0000

Harriet and I visited the worlds most northern brewery, Mack brewery.

Whilst at the brewery we met this nice fellow who helped teach us that people from Oslo actually speak Danish and that we should not live in Oslo or Denmark.

Aquarium in Tromsø

Ryan — Sat, 05 May 2012 18:32:46 +0000

The weather turned to poo in Tromsø, so Harriet and I headed to the local aquarium to entertain ourselves for the afternoon.

Snow in Tromsø

Ryan — Thu, 03 May 2012 18:22:28 +0000

So, Harriet and I went to Tromsø during the winter. Tromsø is way up in the arctic circle. It apparently snows quite a lot in the arctic circle, who would’ve thought!

Tromsø Cemetery

Ryan — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:00:23 +0000

Continuing my habit of taking photos of cemeteries covered in snow …

Action girl

Ryan — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:14:11 +0000

Harriet Geoghegan posing in Tromsø.

Kate Winslett's got nothing on this!

Harriet demonstrating her outstanding mountaineering skills by scaling the hill to the local landmark

Harriet in a random park in Tromsø city

Harriet climbing into a kiddies tree house

Harriet standing on the bridge to some sort of military ship thingy

Sentrumsløpet

Ryan — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 02:20:19 +0000

I competed in the Sentrumsløpet today, a 10 km running race around the streets of Oslo. I am the fattest I have been in my life, I am the most out of shape I’ve ever been in my life, I am nursing an achilles heal injury and rather insanely decided that competing in this thing would be a good way to kick my arse off the couch. Well it did kick my arse of the couch indeed, but I swear almost killed me in the process. 61.5 mins later I felt like I was about to pass out. Thankfully there were 4500 smoking hot Norwegian girls to admire enroute, so it was all worth it

Below are some photos of my work colleagues and myself.