A red barn in the middle of a yellow field on a sunny afternoon.

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.

I wish you were there, then you wouldn’t have to rely on my measly words or pictures to tell of this moment. These are the days of the midnight sun.  The mountains are so high that sunrise is mimicked each morning.  The city lays dark but the sky is bright.  The sun makes it’s climb [...]

It seems we have a little problem in Tromsø.  In Summer, residents have to play dodgems with the local seagulls.  To me seagulls are like pigeons – just add water and they become the flying rats of the sea.  However, in Norway they have the biggest seagulls I’ve every seen – the Great Black-Backed Gull [...]