Perhaps best known as the venue of the annual Nobel Peace Prize (awarded each December 10), this gracious, attractive city (pop. 942,000/metro 1.7 million) has been voted one of the world’s most “liveable”, with a marvelous menu of historic/cultural
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This one´s of special interest to me since I recently experienced an exciting sojourn in Norway´s Arctic (though I didn´t make it to this compact city of a bit over 53,000 (second photo at top), located just above the Arctic Circ
Nearly 20 years ago, I visited Norge for the first time – on a press trip sponsored by Visit Norway to capital Oslo, historic second city Bergen, and a Hurtigruten cruise to the fjords and up to far-northern Svalbard. It was all beautiful, of cou
Norway's beautiful capital is a major global hub, yet only around 20 percent of its extension is truly urbanized, so in addition to city streets it's possible to spend time in parks, woodlands, hills, and lakes. Oslo's major avenue, Karl Joha
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The "Norway-in-a-nutshell" tour can be undertaken throughout from Bergen or Oslo as a single-day trip or spread over three days. However, if planning a one-day excursion, Voss would be a more convenient and relaxing base. This small, thriving town
Read more…Continental Europe's northernmost point (and Norway's largest yet least populated county), Finnmark is a land of stark beauty. Home of the Sami (aka Lapps), it's an outpost of one ofScandinavia's distinctive cultural subroupings, as well as a primo p
With a population of some 76,000, the city of Tromsø is Europe's main cultural centre above the Arctic Circle, with a mix not just of interesting museums, architecture, surrounding natural beauty and adventure options, and other attractions, but wi
Winter is not necessarily the time to simply tuck in, stay home, and hibernate. it's a season which happens to be the perfect time to visit a number of stunningly beautiful places around the world which get even prettier when it's cold. Here's a lis
Autumn travel is already on the horizon! When you read about spectacular autumn foliage and leaf-peeping, the vast majority of the attention gets focused on places like the northerly regions of the USA. But many Europeans can tell you that large par
Northern Lights, also known as Aurora Borealis are one of the most breathtaking sights one can ever experience. The mixture of unearthly colors display including magenta, emerald green and turquoise is so worth watching. You would be lucky enough if
North of Norway's Arctic Circle in the Finnmark region, the small city of Alta (one of the world's northernmost), located on a west-coast fjord, is home to among other things gorgeous scenery, an ice hotel, and thousands of UNESCO World Heritage rock
The aurora borealis (the solar wind playing colorful tricks with the earth's magnetosphere) is of course one of Nature's great displays, should be on everyone's bucket list, and one of the best ways to experience them is cruising northern Norway in s
The ice hotel phenomenon, born in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden in the 1990s, has been gradually picking up steam (as it were) in the northern hemisphere over the years, with hotels built each winter in a half-dozen countries. At the moment, the world's northe
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At the ripe old age of 119, Hurtigruten is an outfit fairly unique in the world, not just a Norway national icon but practically a public utility. Operating a 13-ship fleet divided into four classes, the company’s bread and butter is carrying both pa
Recently I had the chance to get an all-too-brief taste of Norway’s second city before boarding a weeklong Hurtigruten cruise up the coast, and OMG what a right little gem I found Bergen to be. Well, if you can call a city of 266,000 “little” – but
