{"id":1730,"date":"2015-09-02T16:59:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T16:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2015-09-02T16:59:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T16:59:39","slug":"si-weybridge-friendship-visit-to-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/2015\/09\/02\/si-weybridge-friendship-visit-to-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"SI Weybridge: Friendship Visit to Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1732\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2015\/09\/IMGP0014_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1732\" src=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2015\/09\/IMGP0014_3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Farsund Resort, where we stayed\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/files\/2015\/09\/IMGP0014_3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/files\/2015\/09\/IMGP0014_3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Farsund Resort, where we stayed<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SI Weybridge has, for over 20 years, been a member of a five way friendship link with clubs Kristiansand (Norway), Almelo (Netherlands), Silkeborg (Denmark) and Munsterland Sud (Germany). In late August 7 members of the club attended a Friendship meeting in Southern Norway organised by the Kristiansand club. This had a changed format as everyone stayed in a beautiful resort on a fjord. Previously we had stayed in member\u2019s homes. This new format allowed us to mingle with all the other attendees and get to know them better and to make interesting trips into the surrounding area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1734\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2015\/09\/IMGP0039.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1734\" src=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2015\/09\/IMGP0039-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"After lunch, time to mingle\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/files\/2015\/09\/IMGP0039-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/files\/2015\/09\/IMGP0039.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>After lunch, time to mingle<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We visited a museum to hear stories of poor young farm children who walked for days to spend the summer herding for bigger farms, saw a wonderful salmon ladder tunnelled into the mountain, enjoyed the view from the top a lighthouse where there was an art installation on the beach. We took walks in the country and even got lost in a wonderful forest!<\/p>\n<p>We had a wonderful time and experienced great friendship.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1731\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2015\/09\/IMGP0010_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1731\" src=\"\/southern-england\/files\/2015\/09\/IMGP0010_2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Art by the Sea\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/files\/2015\/09\/IMGP0010_2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/files\/2015\/09\/IMGP0010_2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Art by the Sea<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SI Weybridge has, for over 20 years, been a member of a five way friendship&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":591,"featured_media":1734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs-news","tag-friendship-links"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SI Weybridge: Friendship Visit to Norway  | News | Blog | Events | SI Southern England<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Southern England : Blog &amp; News : SI Weybridge: Friendship Visit to Norway : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Southern England . 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