Entries Tagged ‘Living’

Frozen Memories

The days are so sunny and bright, green and vibrant, awake.  It is hard to imagine that this landscape was once covered by a meter of snow.  Winter is a distant memory, almost forgotten.  It is only when I browse through my photos that I remember that life will change again very soon and all [...]

Dry Fish Rack

Large wooden racks called hjell are for drying fish.  They are a regular sight along the coast of Norway.  Cod are hung on the wood in the open air for about three months in the Spring. Temperatures just above freezing is best for drying the fish.  If it gets too cold the fibers in the fish [...]

10 Tips on Surviving Norway

You need to have a certain personality to survive Norway.  I’m lucky, I enjoy my own company and can amuse myself, so the standard isolation as an ‘immigrant’ is quite perfect for me.  However, others who need social interaction have a much harder time of it.  Below are some tips (well, more like humorous tactics) especially [...]

Concert Plugs

Being a dancer I go to a lot of concerts.  The locals here in Tromsø love to dance and often like to dress up for the occasion.  It was at this Swing dance party that I discovered an odd but ingenious method of dancing the night away without the ringing in your ears the next [...]

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