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.

Sometimes we prefer to take the bus back home to Tromsø rather than fly.  The bus ride is about six hours but it means we get to look at the scenery, have a snooze, eat, ride on the ferries and spend some time playing with the kids.
The seasons are very dramatic in Norway and different [...]

Coming in on the barge to Lyngen I had to double-take – is that Nisse?  He looks quite at home in the Arctic snow.  I would have thought it was the juletid season if I didn’t know it was three months after Christmas.  The difference between Christmas and Spring is that the sun has returned [...]

A Norwegian Christmas is filled with many celebrations and traditions, old and new. As the snow falls, the white landscape is the first sign of Christmas and Norway starts to prepare for their long season of juletid.
November
As the snow comes, Norway enters the Christmas season early with a series of Christmas parties. Work, clubs, schools [...]

We were meeting friends in the city but were unusually early.  So to pass some time we thought to drive to the south tip of the island to watch the 2:30pm sunset.  It was beautiful.  Throughout Autumn the sunsets move from the West to the South, to the East and eventually disappear.  The more the [...]

There is something in the mountains in Norway that make them turn a metallic blue.  There doesn’t even have to be sunlight on them to have this mystic colour.  These mountains can be seen especially in the North.  There metallic is sometimes so strong they look like silvery oil paintings.  I wonder what element makes [...]

Our backyard is filled with yummy blue, black and red berries but our sky is a delicious orange and purple candy floss.

While the whole world is trying to get on its feet from the ongoing financial crisis, there is one place that seems completely unaffected by the whole thing: Tromsø!
Norway, as a whole, has experienced a 50% increase in bankrupcies and foreclosures over the last year. The area around Oslo has been hit extra hard with [...]

Alta’s highpoint is Komsa Mountain.  It may not compete in height or size with Bergen’s Seven Mountains or Tromsø’s Mount Storsteinen – well, in fact, in the post There is a Hill in Alta I thought Komsa was… you guessed it – a hill!  but apparently standing 203 metres above sea level still classifies it [...]

We have beautiful sunshine every day now.  In the evening the sky turns purple and orange – the Midnight Sun is definitely coming.  You know what, to my surprise, I miss Winter already.  Does this mean that Norway is now in my bones?