It’s much easier to get around in Winter in Norway when you have a car, however, it can also be dangerous too. The roads become slippery and many accidents can happen. It is very easy to just slide off the road into a ditch. The plough trucks try to come by regularly but sometimes there [...]
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.
In Norway, there are still Lefse recipes around from the 1630s! This is supposedly the traditional and original Hardanger recipe used:
Norwegians love their mountainous nature so much they spend whatever time they can in it – for recreation, fitness, hunting or just family time.
This is our view to the west. After work the shore becomes alive with activity. Tromsøværing (the Tromsø folk) make the most of the afternoon sun with fishing, jogging and rollerskiing.
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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.
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Decorating Easter eggs is a big tradition in Norway.
Runes were the written language of the Vikings.