This week’s show opened with the competitors zooming down a fjord, Nærøyfjorden, in a speed boat. Their destination – Gudvangen! The folk enthusiast twinkled her fingers in the water and popped them in her mouth. ’I taste my ancestry’, she said. Gudvangen is where her Norwegian family come from. She had always seen pictures and [...]
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.
Pølse is THE fast food of Norway. When the grilled pølse was first introduced to Norway in the 50s it was eaten naked – without bread.
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.
Flower Show Series: Arctic Botanical Garden Selection – Tromsø
Reindeer herding is more than just an occupation, it is a way of life and an integral part of the Sami culture and identity.
Towards the water in a beautiful pocket of leafy oak trees is the Byneset Church.
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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