It takes about six hours to drive to Alta, more if you stop and eat, miss the car-barge or take pics. On a straight highway it would only take about two hours to drive from Tromsø to Alta, but because Norway is built by fjords and mountains, the road winds in and out, up and [...]
It’s fun to have an airport close by. This might sound odd as the first thing people think about is the noise, traffic and pollution. But Tromsø airport is only built for light aircrafts – propeller planes and 747s. No Jumbos are allowed to land here. This is normal for the airports in Northern Norway.
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Tromvik is a cute fishing village on Kvaløya Island just off Tromsø. There is not much there, just a few fisherman huts, reindeer and hjeller (fish racks built as high as a house for air drying cod). It’s a nice Sunday drive to have a peek at how Norwegian fishermen live.
The Tyholt Tower is the second biggest tourist attraction in Trondheim behind Nidaros Cathedral. It is a telecommunications tower and stands 120 metres high overlooking Trondheim city.
There is a sight seeing level on the lower floor. On the upper floor is an Egon Restaurant (the Norwegian version of a T.G.I. Fridays). The floor revolves giving [...]
When travelling in Norway it is important to know danger signs. This is one of them: FARE SKYTEFELT means ’shooting range’. These can be found scattered throughout long stretches of land along highways. They are army practice areas. Hang on – bullets can’t read! How do they know to stop before the sign? Heaven forbid [...]
The Bull Horns, or Okshornan in Norwegian, is a mountain formation jutting out from the Senja Island coastline. It is obvious that the mountains get their name from their shape as they are very sharp. It looks like they are just one row but they are actually made up of layers and layers of rock. [...]
Stiftsgården, the Royal Manor, is the king’s official residence in Trondheim. Right in the heart of the city, the manor was built in the 1770s as a private home for the Privy Councillor Schøller’s widow Cecilie Christine von Schøller. This building was specifically positioned and built to show off the family’s riches but in 1800 [...]
Plane landing in Tromsø at sunset
Living in Europe, it doesn’t take long to get anywhere. Even being so far north, we get to enjoy weekend trips to Venice, Prague, Athens and Budapest. Flights from Oslo to London are just two hours. From Arctic Tromsø to London it is only a three flight. We sure have [...]
My Little Norway
2010 Calendar
The sun never goes down during this season but the mountains to the East are so high that the sun still has to raise above them in the morning hours and an artificial dawn-effect wakes the city.
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.
By our favourite jetty is the cutest little boat shed. We often have picnics there in Summer. It’s nice to just drop by our favourite places in Winter to see how very different but very beautiful everything still is.
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At full-moon the blue light almost looks electric. Our favourite jetty really knows how to surprise us for Christmas – especially with this ‘elfs-eye-view’.
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Flower Show Series: Arctic Botanical Garden Selection – Tromsø
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.
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