Saturday Shopping in Downtown Alta
Nothing to the right and nothing to the left. This is a usual scene of the main shopping street in downtown Alta.
It may seem that Alta is the role model for ‘sleepy town’, but it is all-so very tricky. Shopping in Alta is done inside. There are actually two shopping centres in the above pictures (one of them is the biggest shopping centre in all of Northern Norway). Because Alta is shrouded in ice and snow for 2/3 of the year it makes sense to have indoor shops. The other ‘inside’ knowledge is that not many Alta folk would waste such a beautiful Saturday going shopping. They are probably all down in the rivers fly-fishing.
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I like Alta! I was there last summer, for the first time in 30 years. It’s clean, new, nice and comfortable in every way. But, I always miss Tromsø and it’s visual chaos. I don’t think there is any other town that will build a highrise AROUND a random wooden shack. Just because “it was there first”.
I enjoyed Stockholm for it’s classic charm, Calgary for it’s freshness and Barcelona for it’s smells. I like Copenhagen for it’s dirtyness and Singapore for… being Singapore, I guess.
I like Alta for the same reason as Calgary, it’s all neat and new. I like Tromsø for the same reason as London. It’s visual chaos and organic.
Do you follow my thinking?
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from L-Jay:
yes,
Wow, I don’t remember any of that being there 17 years ago.