The days have been beautiful over Easter and so we couldn’t let all the sunshine go to waste.  A family BBQ on the sledding hill was the perfect way to make the most of our holiday. At 1 o’clock the hill was packed with sun-bathers and families.  The hill is in a great position facing [...]

Everyone has a sledding hill in Norway.  Ours is at the end of the street.  Especially when it’s a sunny Winters day you’ll find all the neighbours up on the hill playing with their kids.  Snowmen are made, jumps are moulded, and somehow in all the chaos, an advanced, intermediate and kiddies track appear. It’s [...]

A Norwegian Christmas is filled with many celebrations and traditions, old and new. As the snow falls, the white landscape is the first sign of Christmas and Norwegians start to prepare for their long season of juletid. November As the snow comes, Norway enters the Christmas season early with a series of Christmas parties. Work, [...]

It is surreal to live according to nature.  In big cities and average climates humans make their own times and their own lives but in dynamic places of the world, like Northern Norway, nature makes all the rules. Instead of living the same day-in and day-out, we live by the seasons and move with nature.  [...]