Reporter：先生，谢谢您接受我的采访。您现在已经退休了，听说这个冬天您要回您的家乡去，能不能谈谈您的退休生活
The Artist: Of course. Upon my retirement, I made the decision to spend this winter back home in Norway. I have a house in a small village there, which is a two-hour flight from London, and then a two-hour car ride up into the mountains. It’s snowy landscape, vast and beautiful.
Reporter：我没有去过北欧，我想那儿的冬天一定很美，但是也一定很冷吧
The Artist: Yes, it can get to 30 degrees below zero there when it gets really cold. And the days are very short. It’s very chilly but it’s dry and there’s no wind and you have the northern lights and you have the stars. As long as you’re properly dressed, you don’t freeze at all.
Reporter：您对家乡有很深的感情。但您选择在伦敦安家，说明您是很喜欢伦敦的，对吗
The Artist: London is the most cosmopolitan and interesting town in the world. It has such a vast supply of culture. It’s so easy to live there. I used to spend time in London and I always felt very welcome as a foreigner. Now that my calendar is more flexible I want to live in London again. I have one child in Karachi and one in Sydney so London is easier to use as a family meeting place.
Reporter：请您和我们讲一讲您的童年生活。您是在哪长大的
The Artist: I grew up in a small mining town in the far north of Sweden. In the mid-1920s. they found a huge pile of gold and young people started to move there, including my parents. They went as teachers. Now the gold is gone and the village is growing old.
Reporter：您后来有没有故地重游，再去看看您以前生活过的小村子
The Artist: Yes, I have. In fact, my wife is from there too-I’m married to the most beautiful girl in the village-it’s like in a fantasy-and until two years ago, her father was still living there, so we went quite often.
Reporter：谢谢，希望您能再来北京。
