One of the things you need to do when living in another country is to learn new names for things.  Quite often I find items in Norway with a different name in English.  I don’t know why they don’t just use the original English word, but I often find that the new English name just [...]

Being a dancer I go to a lot of concerts.  The locals here in Tromsø love to dance and often like to dress up for the occasion.  It was at this Swing dance party that I discovered an odd but ingenious method of dancing the night away without the ringing in your ears the next [...]

High Summer and low tide in Alta.  A sleepy Summer’s day.  When the tide is out you can walk into the middle of the fjord or you can sunbath on the beach and watch other people do it.

We’ve been having a discussion about quality and variety of produce in Norway in the recent post Do You Really Want to Live in Norway.  I thought it fun to do a little experiment – to go out to the biggest supermarket in my area and take some snaps of whatever is in the fresh [...]