how to mark Carl Barks' 103th birthday

[Olaf Solstrand]

Wow! I have to say this is a wonderful idea!

I don't feel worthy of attending it myself (plus it sounds a little too 
expensive for me), but I have a question:

Does anyone have photos of this valley? Sounds beautiful!

I found one already...
http://www.vg.no/bilder/bildarkiv/1028360628.jpg



I hope someone that attends to this trip gives us a full report of it 
afterwards!


Nils Lid Hjort wrote:

> March 27, 2004: Barks' 103th birthday. How to spend it?
> How to mark the occasion?
>
> Well: you might consider going to Tralla La, or a decent copy
> thereof.
>
> Such a tour is in fact being organised, by Norwegian
> Donaldists Tor Ødemark and Torill Hylland. The "Tralla La"
> in question is the valley between Stalheim and Gudvangen,
> on the west coast of Norway. Hylland appears to be the owner
> of Gudvangen Fjordhotel, and she has tried to make her hotel,
> and its vicinity, have resemblances to the famous Tralla La valley.
> (And two of her cooks have been picked from Neuschwanstein
> in southern Germany; there lies the castle that reportedly gave Walt 
> Disney the inspiration for the Sleeping Beauty castle of Disneyland.)
>
> The tour is (apparently) open to everyone worthy of the "Donaldist" or 
> "Barksist" label. The tour involves:
>
> * Friday 26th: Bus from Oslo to Gudvangen, ultra-scenic ride.
> Various Barksian events at night.
> * Saturday 27th: Excursion costs 10 bottlecaps. Boattrip to the famous & 
> scenic Flåm. More Tralla La events. Dinner with
> speeches and lectures (?).
> * Sunday 28th: Long breakfast, more seminars (?). Then bus to Oslo at 
> 13:00.
>
> The total price, for bus Oslo - Gudvangen and back, two nights, dinners 
> and lunches and breakfasts, according to the invitation I got in the mail 
> today, is NOK 950 (about Euro 120; quite a reasonable price, I'd say, for 
> Norway; a similar weekend with ordinary hotel prices would easily cost 
> the double).
>
> Tor Ødemark has been an active Barksist and comics fan for a number of 
> years. He has published articles in various fan-magazines, and once in 
> the mid-1980ies (?) he went to Oregon to meet Barks, the whole thing 
> covered in the press.
>
> If you are interested, you may contact Mr Ødemark at tor at nortur.no ,
> or telephone (+47) 22 80 37 30.
>
> Nils Lid Hjort
>
> PS: I am simply reporting the basic facts of the invitation I received
> today, and have nothing to do with either TØ or the arrangement! I do 
> assume that it is ok for me to report on this event on the DCML,
> as the organisers ask us to make it "more public", and to mention this
> to persons that they might have "forgotten". While this is geared mostly
> towards the vaguely defined crowd of "Norwegian Barks fans who might have 
> known Tor Ødemark 10-20-30 years ago", it is clear that
> also people outside this core segment will be welcomed. I notice that
> both Don Rosa and Marco Rota are on the invitees list. -- This list is
> a bit "pre industrial revolution", dating essentially to the pre-email 
> and pre-DCML days, I observe; there are arguably "famous present names" 
> not on the list, etc.