Buying food in Alta can be ‘hit-and-miss’.  Most fruit and vegetables are old, soft and colourless in the stores.  I was lucky to finally get a mango that was decent after three years in Norway.  I celebrated with a fruit salad and yoghurt breakfast. Most often food is of poor quality.  Fungus, mold and squishiness [...]

“På ferie” (on holiday) is one of the first phrases you learn at Norwegian language school here in Norway and there is a very good reason!  Norwegians love going on holiday – it is Norway’s biggest past time.  Come Summer and practically the whole country shuts down to cater for all the Norwegians taking their [...]

There is no cable guy.  We can’t get cable.  They haven’t installed cable in our farming area yet.  The choices are antenna or satellite.  We chose antenna as it was easier, or so we thought.  Apparently, somebody has built the barn in the wrong place and blocks our signal.  Back in the 60s Alta didn’t [...]

Tromsø has treated us very well over the last few years.  We have many fond memories and will miss our favourite places.  Feeling a little indebted and sentimental, we thought to give something to Tromsø to remember us by. With having young children, one thing that I have missed is having the books to read [...]