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Culture Bergen

11 Reviews When you're in Bergen you have to know what this song's about. it's a Must for all visitors.Brann means fire in Norwegian. Yahoo Heia Brann, Heia Brann Blod e tjukkere enn vann. Heia Brann Helt fra...

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Fresh Fish, Shellfish, Crabs and Shrimp Stavanger

1 Review Available at the dock between the oil museum and the huge parking garage. Get there early if you want to buy crabs because they never last! One of the best benefits of living by the sea is the easy...

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Bike lift Trondheim

3 Reviews A funny installation in Trondheim for getting up the steep hill (Brubakken) with your bike. It takes you almost all the way up to the fortress. You need a key card to use it (Tourist office at Torvet...

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People Bergen

6 Reviews Henrik Ibsen, a Norwegian playwright, lived in Bergen for a few years where he wrote, directed and produced plays You can see a rather creepy statue of him by Nils Raa (1981) in front of the National...

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Broken Umbrella & Broken Bicycle Stavanger

1 Review This is a brilliant Norwegian concept based on, and in answer to Broken Column, a set of sculptures that an Englishman placed about town. Broken Umbrella is a popular interactive work in which many...

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Fotball (Soccer) Rosenborg Trondheim

2 Reviews Rosenborg Ballklub is the pride of the city, and the entire nation since they made such an impact on the European Championship League. The best football club in Norway, and champions year after year....

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Festivals Bergen

4 Reviews I was so luck that I have experienced Matfest i Bryggen in 2005. You can taste lots of traditional food( brown cheese, smoked salmon ..etc) and take the opportunity of reasonable prices. Colourful...

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Lutefisk - Lyed fish Stavanger

1 Review Around Christmastime in Norway, my Norwegian family took me out to eat lutefisk in a restaurant. They said it was a fish-speciality that you usually only have about once a year. Whereas my host mother...

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Students Trondheim

2 Reviews One you see half-naked guys ruunning in their underwear around town in August you can be sure that the new academic year has started. That's just one of the rituals they have for their freshmen....

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17th of May Bergen

2 Reviews The parade taking place on the 17th of May is a must-see for sure! It begins with boys playing drums (the sound spreads all over the city), you can watch interesting national costumes (I liked...

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Saturday protests Trondheim

1 Review Every Saturday there are protests and marches around town and by simply looking you would think that people in this country and city are really fed up with their poor lives and living conditions....

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17. mai/May 17th Trondheim

2 Reviews If you thought this habit of Saturday marches are silly, wait untill you see how they calculate the number of participants. Every time we have certain protests in Croatia organisers and opposition...

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St Olav Trondheim

2 Reviews Not only is local hero St Olav big in York too, where a central church has his name. Trondheim's symbol is a rose, uncanningly similar to the white rose of Yorkshire! Wonder if the typical English...

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Mailboxes Trondheim

1 Review As everywhere in Norway also in Trondheim you’ll find those funny groups of mailboxes along the major streets. It seems that Norwegian postmen are somewhat lazy so the Post office requires neighbours...

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Antique books Trondheim

1 Review One of the best antique bookstores in Norway, and always a temptation for a booklover like me when I visit Trondheim. They have a first-class selection of used and antique books. Wangsmo Antikvariat...

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The delicious water

by mirchica

I haven't tried anywhere else in the world more delicious water than the one in Norway. In Bulgaria the water is not bad but not so good and many people prefer to buy mineral or natural water from the grocery (who knows if it's really natural?!?!). The Norwegian water reminds me how as kids we were drinking the water from the village sink after we have played like a crazy....The Norwegian water that comes from people's sinks is sweet and delicious and does really taste! You can drink and drink and drink, people take a shower in this water. It's just so clean. Wish I have the chance to drink it everyday!

the pot-holes of Kristiansand

by globetrott

For me it always again a lot of fun to watch out for the local pot-holes, when I come to a new city. In Kristiansand they also use their own design for it, shownig the Domkirke, the townhall and another house I did not recognize.

Long Summer Nights and Appropriate Curtains

by DSwede

After trying to spend the last few weeks sleeping in the long summer days of Scandinavia, I was starting to get frustrated that every hotel, hostel, cabin, etc. had curtains that barely blocked out the light.I had seen long days in the northern parts of Canada and Alaska before, but not for extensive periods of time, so it was starting to effect my sleep.It was explained by a local friend that the curtains are very thin such that the light comes in. The winters are so long and dark, that they wish to take advantage of all the light and keep it close in mind so they do not forget its warmth when the long cold dark of winter sets in.When followed up by questions about thicker curtains possibly being better insulators to keep heating costs down, this was dismissed by a simple reply that a couple more blankets on the bed would fix that.

Farikal

by YokuMoku

Origin: NorwayFarikal means mutton (far) and cabbage (kal) stew. Note the "a" should be the Norwegian "a" with a circle on top which is pronounced like the "ou" in "fought." Farikal is a very tasty dish with lamb flavour. Served best with boiled potatoes.1.5 kg lamb from neck, shank or breast, together with the bones, cut into serving-size pieces1.5 kg garden cabbage (the hard winter cabbage, not the thin summer cabbage. The summer one will be too mushy)2 tsp salt4 tsp peppercorns1-2 tbsp flour300 ml boiling waterCut the cabbage into segments.Place the lamb and cabbage in layers in the saucepan, starting with the lamb. Sprinkle flour, salt and peppercorns between the layers. To avoid burning, use a saucepan with a thick bottom.Pour over boiling water. Bring to the boil and let the lamb and cabbage simmer over low heat until the meat is tender for about 1-2 hours.Farikal should be served...

Must hear: Röyksopp

by diocletianvs

They are Norwegian duo coming from Tromso, growing surrounded by glacial imagery, Northern Lights and light summers. Torbjorn Brundtland and Svein Berge managed to capture the atmosphere of Norwegian landscapes in their music so well that once you hear their album Melody AM you'll just have to listen and listen all over again. I discovered Röyksopp when one friend gave me their CD, months after I have returned from Norway. But once their CD landed into my CD player it didn't get out of it for weeks. Their music is an excellent reminder of Norwegian landscapes, summer "nights" with almost no darkness at all, of Norwegian shyness, way of life and their way of loving. Fabulous atmosphere, one can listen to it on and on and always find new details to enjoy.And get addicted to it. Oh yes, you can get Röyksopp addicted very easy.

Molde and all that Jazz

by globetrott

Molde is not only a great place to go for an excellent panorama of the sea surrounded by hundreds of mountains, but Molde is also very well known as the City of Roses and even more as the "city of Jazz" : They have a regular Jazz-festival and in the port you will find this monument of a Jazz-player with a part of the great panorama that Molde is famous for.This is the program for the Jazz-festival in Moldeand it includes also the weather-forecast

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Meet the trolls of Norway

by globetrott

Trolls are nice creatures that you will find in many places of Scandinavia and one of them is waiting for you inside the Nordkapphallen, posing patiently for the tourists photos like in my main photo.Trolls are living out in the woods and they are a lot smaller than the one here in my photos. The best place to meet the trolls are the souvenirshops all over Norway, and there are also lots of troll-books and stories for children about trolls.Trollstiegen (the steps for the trolls) is a famous mountain-passroad close to Geiranger !

throw the money into that bomb-shell

by globetrott

This old bomb-shell or sea-mine is used nowadays for collecting the entrance-fee for the museum of the fortress, you simply thrown in your money there before you enter the fortress through the main gate, that is really a funny way to save the money that a real ticket-office with employees would normally cost !

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There are some lockers in the Hurtigruten-station

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Inside the Hurtigruten-terminal you will find a few automatic lockers like shown in my photo. I dont think that this building is open day and night, but they have a souvenir- and newspapershop there as well, so they will certainly by open most of the day and then untill the last depariure of the hurtigruten-ship.

Molde and all that Jazz

by globetrott

Molde is also known as the city of Jazz : They have a regular Jazz-festival and in the port you will find this monument of a Jazz-player.This is the program for the Jazz-festivalMolde 2010and it includes also the weather-forecast

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