Alta has been struggling with identity for a while now.  It was granted city status in 2000 with only 18,000 residents.  Since then the city has been obsessed with naming themselves.  Tromsø has been called the ‘Paris of the North‘ since the 1800s and is also known by the locals as the ‘cultural centre for [...]

Visit Norway is holding a competition for five people to win a 10 day trip, all expenses paid, to Norway.  To enter just submit a photo, story, blog, poem, song, etc – anything “media” – that is inspired by Norway and its values, onto the Norway. Your Way pages .  The prize is a bit of [...]

We get a lot of people emailing us about engineering jobs.  Well, you are in luck!  Below are some excerpts from an advertisement found on finn.no today.  If you are an engineer and want to live in Norway (well, Hammerfest) then this might be perfect for you (note: Job closes 01.09.2010):
Adima is an employment service [...]

Sometimes it is very hard to find foods in Norway that are just every day life in your home country.  I recently discovered calamari in the stores.  Calamari is eaten by the bucket loads in Australia and can be found at any fish’n’chip shop.  Here octopus is only used for fish bait and not for [...]

The surfer, the hunting videographer, the gay games medalist and the opera singer were the last four standing to compete in the final to win $50,000 (something that hadn’t really been revealed until this episode) and meet their Norwegian family.
There were three challenges and each loser was knocked out of the competition and sent home. [...]

This being the last episode before the climax, a lot of expectations rode on this show as the final four would go on to the last challenge. However, this episode was more like a lull (hopefully one before a storm). The episodes have been slowing down each week. More and more comments [...]

Svalbard. Even in the Summer ice and snow cover this island landscape. As the Norwegian-Americans land at the airport the hunting videographer can’t wait to kill his first polar bear. Monica Christensen Solaas, a true Norwegian explorer, was overseer of the challenges, the first being a long distance ski trek to a [...]

This was the first episode of the show I have been able to watch, so this review will be presented by yours truly.
In this episode the seven remaining contestants found themselves in Nordmarka, the woodlands north of Oslo. The group was backpacking along one of the many hiking trails in this area. The gay games [...]

On episode four, the Alt for Norge reality series had a competition to catch and kill a chicken for dinner. The sequence was done in such a way that the actual clubbing and chopping off of the chicken’s head was not shown. However, this wasn’t good enough for animal rights activists who reported [...]

This week’s show opened with the competitors zooming down a fjord, Nærøyfjorden, in a speed boat.  Their destination –  Gudvangen!  The folk enthusiast twinkled her fingers in the water and popped them in her mouth.  ’I taste my ancestry’, she said.  Gudvangen is where her Norwegian family come from.  She had always seen pictures and [...]