There was no use digging your heels in last weekend in the centre of Alta, when the local division of the national women’s running league Spar Jentebølgen arranged a race in the middle of a busy shopping street. And it wasn’t just an ordinary race. This was a sprint - in stilettos! The conditions for participating [...]

Visit Norway is holding a competition for five people to win a 10 day trip, all expenses paid, to Norway.  To enter just submit a photo, story, blog, poem, song, etc – anything “media” – that is inspired by Norway and its values, onto the Norway. Your Way pages .  The prize is a bit of [...]

After great debate, here is our Top Five list for the Bunad Giveaway. Thank you to everyone who submitted a story. Moose and I waited until tonight to read them all at once.  It was a fun read but challenging to pick the Top Five. Now it’s over to our readers to choose which Norwegian [...]

We have a children’s Bunad to give-away in celebration of this coming Syttende Mai (May 17), Norway’s National Day of Independence. Over the next few weeks we are holding a little competition for one lucky reader to win this traditional dress and have it sent to them for May 17. A Bunad is a traditional [...]