Sometimes it is very hard to find foods in Norway that are just every day life in your home country. I recently discovered calamari in the stores. Calamari is eaten by the bucket loads in Australia and can be found at any fish’n’chip shop. Here octopus is only used for fish bait and not for [...]
When searching through some Norwegian websites I ‘stumbled’ across this ad. It struck me as a very odd thing for a Polly to do – actually, a bit tacky. A take off from the Bob Dylan video Subterranean Homesick Blues doesn’t seem as fitting when the party using it is mostly red! There he was [...]
There is a lot of confusing and misleading information on the web-o-phere concerning financial benefits for non-citizens of Norway. Here is just one from www.expatfocus.com: Norway – Social Security Norway has a very advanced social security system covering statutory sick pay, maternity pay, child benefit, pensions, unemployment, disability and other benefits. Anyone who is working [...]
Towards the water in a beautiful pocket of leafy oak trees is the Byneset Church.
How Norway became a country is shrouded in mystery and folklore. The most well known tale is of Harald Hårfagre who gathered the small kingdoms of the north into a unified nation in 872AD – and of course, this story is about love.
There is an opposition in everything. At the darkest time of the year, we celebrate Christmas. And at the exact opposite end, when the midnight sun is at its highest, we celebrate Midsummer.
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.
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.
Celebrate National Fårikål day with us. On the last Thursday of September every year Norway celebrates their national dish with, of course, all you can eat fårikål!
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