Tuesday 8 March 2022

Tuesday's Travels 22-10

Plenty of you knew last week's challenge as you have visited this site as you visited me when I was living in Norway. It is called Haraldshaugen and is located in Haugesund (where I used to live). Points go to Bettina, Gerrit, Harm and Yamini. 
My story? Well, not really mine, but Harald's! Harald Fairhair is considered to be the man who united Norway back in the day. He started off as just another leader of his tribe and one day he saw a woman he fancied. He started courting her, but she had her sights set a bit higher and wouldn't give him the time of day. She did give him a challenge though: unite all the the different areas of Norway and she would reconsider. So, Harald set to it and after a while he had united the whole country. Fortunately the woman was true to her word and they got together. A thousand years later in 1872 this monument was erected as he is supposed to be buried nearby. The money was raised by public subscription.

Now, on to this week's challenge. Where is this? Have you ever been? Tell us your story. Answer next week.
Written by at
Labels:

8 comments:

  1. Yamini MacLean8 March 2022 at 12:32

    Hari OM
    Well, it's clearly a dam and the only famous dam that jumps to mind right now is the Hoover Dam... but I don't think you have been there, have you?... oh WAIT! - is it Niagara Falls??? YAM xx

    ReplyDelete
  2. Millie and Walter8 March 2022 at 15:36

    That picture kind of looks like Hoover dam but we don't think Hoover dam has anything like that person painted on it. We will be curious to see where it really is.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Bettina_T8 March 2022 at 19:28

    Het portret doet me denken aan Belfast, op de een of andere manier (sfeer, uitdrukking?), maar ik heb eerlijk gezegd 'no clue' waar het dan zou moeten zijn. En in Belfast ben ik dan wel geweest, maar mocht dat hek daar zijn... daar ben ik dan niet geweest.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Gerrit Jellema8 March 2022 at 22:52

    Ik weet het niet helemaal zeker maar het kan volgens mij de stuwdam bij Tignes zijn waar wij in 1992 overheen zijn gegaan

    ReplyDelete
  5. Hilary10 March 2022 at 17:23

    Thank you for the story of Harold, I shall have to look him up and find out more about him. Again no idea where your photo is this week, it is a dam and has a picture of someone who looks a bit like Elvis or Shakin' Stevens on it, (I wonder how that fot there?), but as to where it is???

    ReplyDelete
  6. Debby@Just Breathe11 March 2022 at 00:43

    That's a very interesting story.
    I have no clue on the new photo.

    ReplyDelete
  7. C.L.W.STEP11 March 2022 at 01:14

    That's an interesting story about the monument. Please say hello to Miss Oswin from us.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Janice11 March 2022 at 06:49

    Yet again, not a clue. Obviously it is a dam but unknown to me. Hugs

    ReplyDelete

Any weighty (and not so weighty) comments are welcome!

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)