Being an outsider I tend to miss a lot of what is going on in Norway.  Norwegian pop culture is a mystery but every now and then Moose slaps me over the head with it.  Moose came out of the toilet today with hands up in the air saying ‘Oh yes, the pole!’ Moose is [...]

Every Easter in Norway people go to Easter Mountain.  When you ask a Norwegian what they are doing for Easter, ‘going to Easter Mountain’, they reply.  Newspapers have Easter Mountain weather reports.  People get rescued on Easter Mountain.  And there is a mortality count on Easter Mountain.  Even when coming home, there is Easter Mountain [...]

I was a little excited about this one.  Norwegians are good liquorice eaters.  They have salty liquorice, sweet liquorice and even liquorice chewing gum.  I’ve offered my dance kids black jelly beans and they’ve gobbled them down without even the ‘ewww, liquorice’ I’m used to hearing from Aussie kids. Liquorice ice cream would normally be [...]

Sometimes Mother Nature can be kind. Other times she can be cruel. And then there are times when she will toilet paper your lawn, slap a pie in your face and give you a wedgie – all at the same time. Freezing rain (underkjølt regn) is Nature’s way of pulling a real prank on you. [...]