The days are so sunny and bright, green and vibrant, awake. It is hard to imagine that this landscape was once covered by a meter of snow. Winter is a distant memory, almost forgotten. It is only when I browse through my photos that I remember that life will change again very soon and all [...]
Life in Alta is quite different from the rest of the country, even farm-life. So, we thought we’d introduce you to our new inspiration and take you on a grand tour of the farm. As we walked clockwise around the farm to take pictures today, I was ever so amazed at the diversity [...]
Officially the first night of the Midnight Sun in Tromsø is 20th of May. However, the residents since, at least, the Iron Age have counted it from when the sun can still be seen over the mountains to the north, which is about the 23rd of May. However, if the sky is cloudy and the [...]
The ducks haven’t arrived at Prestvannet yet but our crusty bread didn’t go to waste. Black, white and blue. There is beauty in chaos.
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.
The back of the Lyngen Alps at Djupvik on the E6 between Alta and Tromsø.
Kvænangen is the highest point on the E6 between Alta and Tromsø.
Oksfjordhamn is between Alta and Tromsø on the E6.
The further ‘out of the way’ you go the more common it is to see folk cottages standing by the side of roads, along fjords or in a thicket of trees, minding their own business.
At full-moon the blue light almost looks electric. Our favourite jetty really knows how to surprise us for Christmas – especially with this ‘elfs-eye-view’.
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There is an opposition in everything. At the darkest time of the year, we celebrate Christmas. And at the exact opposite end, when the midnight sun is at its highest, we celebrate Midsummer.
The sun never goes down during this season but the mountains to the East are so high that the sun still has to raise above them in the morning hours and an artificial dawn-effect wakes the city.
Towards the water in a beautiful pocket of leafy oak trees is the Byneset Church.
In Norway, there are still Lefse recipes around from the 1630s! This is supposedly the traditional and original Hardanger recipe used:
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