Hello all, here’s a few pics of my work from this week, really need to get a tripod for the camera but I hope they’ll do 
a sunset near Oslo
this is what 27 440kg of unsorted household garbage looks like, sold by Norsk Gjenvinning in Skien to a power station in Jönköping for the princely sum of 1.- NOK. thank god it’s not summertime 
I believe Norway exports all the trash it creates so it’s a really big business around here.
unloaded in Jönköping friday morning, loaded in nearby Hok for a greenhouse near Bergen, 22600kg of peat. took some work to get the doors closed I tell ya
so am I finally going to see some real nordic weather?
better stock up on supplies in case I do, got some screenwash from Biltema, good for up to -30c when mixed 1:1 with water, as the “winter” screenwash I got in Estonia has an actual limit of around -10c.
this overtook me when I was merging with the motorway
an hour later, driving north, the winter surely had evaded me again…
heard it on the radio on the way down that two norwegian women died here, they had a breakdown on the motorway and when they were checking the engine or smth, the car was rearended by a truck, killing them both…
fueling up in Strömstad, really proud of the fact that I still haven’t used the Burger King next door that’s been there a couple of months now already
at the Svinesund border now, anybody guess what those wooden things are on the trailer of the sprinter?
waiting for the ■■■■■■ probably
a merc from Istanbul, on summer tyres
and an italian as well, same tyres
it was helluva busy for a friday night, fortunately my papers were already waiting from me at the agent, a stamp from the customs and off we go
parked up just after Oslo, had a good few hours of driving left on the clock but not in me, had like 500km to Bergen but decided it was better to take 11 off and head up to the mountains with a clear head in the morning. I’ll know next time to close the curtains before doing anything else as the proximity of the layby to a city means the same uncomfortable setting as in many a layby close to a big city almost everywhere I’ve driven - the pink brigade were out en force. not that I have anything against homosexuals but I don’t think I am sending out a message of some kind by just parking there
next morning, stretching my legs en route
rise in elevation brings forth the snow eventually
this here is what I like to call a bad luck van - while there are many honest working people commuting back and forth in minivans to their respective homelands and the countries where they work in scandinavia, they usually use vans with windows and it’s usually a newer trafic or smth. an old sprinter means slashed curtains and stolen fuel, usually. it’s a major stereotype, I know, but I’m sticking with it 
this particular one registered in Romania
getting up the Hemsedalsfjell, wind was blowing at 20m per second, so I could understand the grimaces on the faces of the drivers heading east while probably empty
tag up, 13t on the drive, good winter tyres and knowing that there is 14t on the drive if I lift the front axle on the trailer, this was stress-free
and ten minutes later it was all over
the longest road tunnel in the world
half an hour later, snow again
and in some places, even quite slippery
passing Bergen, hoping there’ll be a place to park at the drop until monday, google maps didn’t promise too much but streetview was three years old there
but as it turns out, the greenhouse is manned seven days a week so Bogdan (that’s the name he wrote on the cmr) got me unloaded and I headed north with proper haste, as I only had an hour and a few minutes until the end of my working week and Bergen doesn’t really have too many places to park up a lorry for a longer period than it takes to take a leak. after running over my time for twenty minutes I settled on this layby which is nice and solitary for my liking and there is a Shell a few hundred meters down the road, should the need for amenities arise. only the curse of slow internet hovered over the place, as 3G was nonexistent. it was pouring down heavy most of the day, watched a whole season of breaking bad and greased the fifth wheel, the curtain tensioners, the doorhinges, cleaned the plates and the lights and drank a whole lot of tea
to be continued…
got caught between the two wheels on one side, got moving again, 50t moving up 8% hill that was slippery as ■■■■, no problem 
