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 [...]