Brilliant Bry *：歡樂吧！生命

K is a Norwegian friend of mine. Thanks a lot for his help, finally, my ‘almost famous’ experience has been revealed. Well, to thank him, of course, I'd post his beautiful picture here. So that he’s almost famous in Taiwan too. Well, at least, on the Internet, and among the readers of this blog.

Here is the translation of that article in English.

‘Expensive, but mainly a great holiday in Norway’

- Oooooh, are you going to Norway? But it is soooo expensive! Everybody told us in the Netherlands before we left. But we did know that already. The coffee is not much more expensive than it is on a sidewalk café in Paris, says Helma Boerboom who drove with Marc Schumm from Nijmegen in the Netherlands for a roundtrip to the south of Norway. They think that the rumours about the incredible expensiveness are exaggerated. The travel guidebooks focus too much on the prices in Norway, they say.

- We support the political thinking behind the expensive beer and cigarettes, Marc says.

- Yeah, we smoke four cigarettes less per day, Helma laughs.

The poisonous snakes in the botanical garden in the big city like Grønland is the couple’s favourite after a two-day self-guided trip in Oslo. But they also enjoyed Holmenkollen, the Frogner Park and the museum at Bygdøy.

- But I think Norweigians are a bit afraid of us. Everybody is looking down all the time. For instance, if I greet someone at our hotel, they jump back and look at me as if I was mad. There is no doubt that you are a bit reserved, says Helma.

‘Next time when I have a holiday in Norway, I will take a pile of money with me,’ says Renee Sung who is taking a break from her studies in England to have a holiday in Scandinavia with her Taiwanese friends, Sam -- and Bryan -. ----.

- 25 Kroners for a soft drink in a café is too expensive. That's twice the price of England and four times as expensive as it is in Taiwan, says Bryan.

And the wording for the photograph reads, ‘A guided tour on the Oslo fjord is just ok, but Holmankollen and the Frogner Park are very impressive, think (from the left) Sam -- and Bryan -. ----.’

So, that goes my interview. However, the journalist did mistake Sam with me. But it's alright. My comment was documented. My name was listed. But the interview was indeed very interesting, especially comparing us, then, poor students from afar with tourists from an European neighbour country. Of course, the comments were very different, because of different levels of economic power and ability.