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Category Archives: Traditions

Expats can vote!

September 1, 2012by Navnet Leave a comment

We are expatriates not ex-patriots.  If you are an American citizen residing abroad you can vote in the coming November election. As a democrat, and if you are an Am-Expat statistics […]

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Activities, Culture, Random about me, Ranting, Traditions

Happy 17th of May

May 17, 2012by Navnet Leave a comment
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Activities, Norway, Traditions

Journey – Seljestad

April 7, 2012by Navnet Leave a comment

For around 15 percent of the population, Easter in Norway means a trip to the mountains for cross-country skiing. Seljestad is our favorite place, no hotels or resorts just private […]

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Norway, Traditions

Palm Sunday

April 1, 2012by Navnet Leave a comment
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Traditions

Lent

February 21, 2012by Navnet 1 Comment

Originally posted on Wife – in captivity:
I am not Catholic but I love the restrictive nature of their religious traditions. As an ala carte Lutheran, where almost anything goes, it is…

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Homemaking, Killing time, Lent, Traditions

Resolutions anyone?

January 2, 2012by Navnet 3 Comments

2012 is my last year in Germany on this super-extended-vacation-like-existence so I would like to make every moment count. That means I need to break my own rule to not […]

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Killing time, Random about me, Traditions

Christmas market in Haugesund, Norway

December 12, 2011by Navnet 1 Comment

The past two weeks I have stood outside in near gale winds selling my wares in a little shed on the city hall square. It was wonderful! Not only was […]

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Haugesund, Killing time, Things I love!, Thrifting, Traditions

Ponte Vecchio, Florence

May 25, 2011by Navnet 1 Comment

The old bridge or the GOLD bridge as an elderly gentleman from Boston called it, is just a bridge with loads of shops on both sides of the road.  It […]

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Italy, Traditions, Travel

Vintage American Easter postcard

April 21, 2011by Navnet Leave a comment
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Lent

Vintage English Easter postcard

April 20, 2011by Navnet Leave a comment
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Lent

Vintage German Easter postcard

April 18, 2011by Navnet 1 Comment
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Lent

Vintage German Easter postcard

April 16, 2011by Navnet 1 Comment
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Lent

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