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 [...]