On Thursday evening the national newspaper Aftenposten was ‘tipped’ to a picture posted on a forum that targeted Kongsbakken High School in Tromsø as a site for a massacre. Aftenposten contacted the school Principal who then contacted the police. Today students arrived to school with a guarded welcome by the local police. All students were [...]
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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Towards the water in a beautiful pocket of leafy oak trees is the Byneset Church.
On any celebration table in Norway you can always find a Norwegian layer cake (bløtkake). What better way to celebrate Norwegian Constitution Day than with fresh cream, wild berries and a little bit of sponge in between.
How Norway became a country is shrouded in mystery and folklore. The most well known tale is of Harald Hårfagre who gathered the small kingdoms of the north into a unified nation in 872AD – and of course, this story is about love.
I think Autumn is my favourite season in Norway – the weather is still warm here in Tromsø, the sunsets come down over the mountains again and the blueberries are ripe for the picking.
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Runes were the written language of the Vikings.