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Mar 25 2019
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Architecture, Building, Norway, Tourism, Travel, Uncategorized

Straight Outta a Bond Villain. Under, Lindesnes. Norway’s underwater eatery.

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Lindesnes, Norway. A meal at ‘Under’ can cost up to £350, this Europe’s first underwater munch den with 100 seats available for diners. Food has never interested me much (unless I’m pished and craving kebabs) save the architectural design of eateries; I suppose the idea behind this venue is that it’s an ‘experience’. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) comes to mind, the only decent Roger Moore number in the Bond canon. Though the restaurant is only five metres under the sea, it’s a step in the right direction, the ultimate aim a Pot Noodle in the wreck of the Titanic.

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Further reading:

https://www.artfido.com/underwater-restaurant-has-been-completed-in-norway-and-it-looks-out-of-this-world/?fbclid=IwAR1L8T5J3G62DxAQp-FQp_o6b6iyO3-4Jk_JEJB5_OypptcRMMNErJ2iVQE

https://www.dw.com/en/worlds-largest-underwater-restaurant-opens-in-norway/a-48002099

https://under.no/

 

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Nov 16 2017
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Christmas Day in Oslo.

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Christmas brings back the nostalgia, and I do most cherish those memories from the good ol’ days – stuffing my cheeks with selection boxes whilst wailing “Woof” at Buzz’s girlfriend. Xmas is a childhood signifier, the throwback event to an uncomplicated time when the most strenuous task was grabbing forty winks on Christmas Eve.

One recent Christmas Day stays with me, though. Alone in Oslo circa 2013, it was a day of, if not self-discovery, then a serene, surreal solitude (accidental alliteration).

I was reminded of that line in Heat (1995) when De Niro’s character ventures, “I am alone, I am not lonely.” That was Oslo for me: I simply walked the barely inhabited streets apropos of nothing, uttering not a word to anyone, feeling myself an invisible, pointless wanderer passing through the geography. I did nothing, and liberating it was. I’ve not had a jaunt like that since. I recommend Oslo – anonymous, pallid, flat – as the place for it. Maybe it’s livelier in the summer.

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