Destination: Norway
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Mon, 14 May 2007 | By crustyadventures | Views [2787] | Comments [1]
Oslo; first impressions. Green, calm and clean. It's so nice to have arrived at the Oslo airport which smelled of popcorn and looked like a stylish entrance to a sauna, all glass and wood and light. This was a contrast after the awful mayhem of ... Read more >
Tags: conference, oslo, the great outdoors
Sun, 19 Jun 2011 | By drmitch | Views [1118]
I had to get up stupidly early to catch the 6 hour train to Oslo, where I walked the 15 minutes to Anker Hostel . Once again it is more of a “hotel” feel than a hostel, with a
large waiting room, no kitchen but a hotplate in the dorm room, and very ... Read more >
Tags: akershus slott, bygdoy island, castle, fram museum, kontiki museum, maritime museum, nobel peace centre, opera house, oslo, vikings
Mon, 21 Jul 2008 | By nadscol | Views [822]
Boring title I know but what else can I say? Norway was quite simply the most beautiful place that I have ever been in my entire life. To be honest before we got to Norway I didn’t know what to expect. All I knew about Norway were brief spiels from ... Read more >
Tags: norway
Mon, 15 Jul 2013 | By vacation_practitioners | Views [767]
Oslo to Flåm via Myrdal and one of the most AMAZING train trips ANYWHERE!
Having survived two false starts with early morning phone calls, we trundled our bags to the train station where our Bergen-bound train was awaiting us. We were booked ... Read more >
Sun, 22 Feb 2015 | By jgreghenry | Views [759]
To understand Norway, you need to spend some time outside Oslo. The Norwegians are people who enjoy the outdoors. Outdoor recreation and sports are popular. Skiing, fishing, hiking… But an outdoor life also includes work. Rural life is still a ... Read more >
Tags: cooking, norway, plums, pudding, recipes
Sun, 14 Aug 2011 | By arm | Views [635]
Stavanger, Norway My Birthday present from M was a weekend to Norway, a very generous and amazing gift! M had seen a billboard with a picture of "The Pulpit Rock," a beautiful sight of Stavanger which can be reached by ... Read more >
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 | By shire_girl | Views [496]
Such a short time for a city with so much to do, namely so many museums! After taking an hour to relax at our airbnb and getting to know the friendly kitten sized cat that came with it we headed out to explore a piece of Oslo. Perhaps the best moments ... Read more >
Tags: fram museum, norsk folkemuseum, open air museum, oslo, transportation, vigeland park
Mon, 24 Jun 2013 | By effyau | Views [469]
I want to live in the middle of a lake. My little wooden house perched on a grassy dollop the river was never able to swallow. Id swim to the each each morning snd back at night. At 12 noon the sun would be directly above me, the windows reflecting onto ... Read more >
Sun, 16 Aug 2009 | By utegute | Views [452]
The Karlsøy festival is a special occasion where we gather together to resist and oppose a society with values based on profit, competition and greed. The festival is a protest against razing of the rural communities, environmental destruction and ... Read more >
Mon, 25 Mar 2013 | By | Views [333] | Scholarship Entry
The clouds are getting thicker, the day slightly more depressing. A crowd of 10 persons and an expedition leader are cramped in a rubber boat, surrounded by a blue grayish sea with chunks of ice in it. The day is coming to an end, a day filled with excitement, ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Writing Scholarship 2013
Sun, 20 Apr 2014 | By | Views [196] | Scholarship Entry
It was a rainy day in the fall of 2011. It was that time between summer and christmas, that time when your days becomes a loop of the day before. Nothing new, school, work, sleep and repeat. We used to go out in the weekends but that too seemed like a ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Mon, 25 May 2015 | By ozedot | Views [181] | Scholarship Entry
My ears hurt and threatened to snap off. The tip of my nose shrieked with pain. Kirkenes was desolate and fiercely, colder than imagined. I spent a night here after disembarking from the Kong Harold. The focus of the trip was the Northern Lights. A solar ... Read more >
Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship
Sun, 26 Oct 2008 | By jornsalve | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 30 Apr 2007 | By ray-charles | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 5 May 2008 | By bjorn_og_espen | Photo Gallery
1.mai - 4.mai (Hvaler - Strömstad - Hankö - Sande)
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