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 [...]

Midsummer’s Eve is a big deal in Norway.  The day is to celebrate the brightest day of the year.  People go camping or have BBQs at the beach.  Midsummer’s Eve is about enjoying the endless sunshine. However, in Alta, shops close early, people leave work before time and the city becomes like a ghost town [...]

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 [...]

America has Spam.  Norway has Bog. (Aren’t we glad we don’t get ‘bogged’?)