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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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Fotball (Soccer) Rosenborg Trondheim

3 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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People Bergen

5 Reviews It is said of the Bergensers that they are born with Wellies on their feet. It might be true actually. I have never before been to a place where rubber boots were actually an item of fashion and...

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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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Bike lift Trondheim

4 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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Festivals Bergen

5 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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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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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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17th of May Bergen

3 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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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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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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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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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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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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The Norwegian identity...

by Saagar

Thierry Geoffroy-Colonel is a French immigrant to Norway who has cornered the Norwegian identity through humor and irony. His exhibition "Active Immigrant" showcases some of his attmpts at catching the Noregian identity, such as by having Norwegians stopped at random on sidewalks scream into test tubes, sealing the tubes and exhibiting them. Other "scientific" tests where conducted on how close Norwegians tolerate your presence before they back off. This was all filmed - hysterical! The films are part of the exhibition. And there is more... The core of Thierry's analysis is about the experience of isolation and how this is viewed in deifferent cultures.See the exhibition at Internasjonalt Kultursenter og Museum, at Tøyenbekken 5, 0188 Oslo.Open Tue-Wed-Fri 10-16, Thu 10-18 and Sat-Sun 12-16. Free entry.

The most common boy name given in Norway in 2003

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... was Muhammed.It says something about the sex life of Norwegians, whichever creed, and of a productive immigrant population, but most of all about a diversity of Norwegian names given at birth.There is nothing of the Greek "Yorgios"-phenomenon in Norway, so many names compete for the top medal. Still, quite interesting, this Muhammed phenomenon.

The "Hytte"

by Saagar

You will come across the concept, dream as well as the physical appearance of the hytte. This is where many Norwegians live and breathe, while at home in the cities and town, they feel they eat and work and sleep. There is something methaphorical about the hytte (it actually just means a small house for temporary settlement), and all the concentrations of the good life is built into it. If you want to meet the locals on the home turf, so to speak, accept the invitation to come to the hytte (rare, because this is considered very close to heart). The flat in a block in Oslo may be small and drab, but the hytte is where it all happens and interior design and hobbies and everything else blooms.The good thing is that if you are not invited, you can always rent a hytte (July is the cheapest time to bargain for one in the mountains).The origin of the mountain hytte is the summer farms that many...

Build your own cairn

by evaanna

These cairns, or mounds of rough stones have been erected by hikers apparently in gratitude for a successful hike. There are masses of them in some parts of Norway, dotting the skyline, especially in national parks. Gratitude to whom it is hard to say, it just depends on your personal beliefs, but I suspect many were meant for the mythical Nordic deities to beg forgiveness for tramping on their ground. Some also say that if you add a stone to such a mound you will re-visit the place. If only it were that easy.....

Animals' right of way

by evaanna

Animals, like sheep or goats, have absolute priority over the other traffic in Norway. You can come across them in the middle of nowhere without anybody looking after them. A sheep lying in the middle of the road, basking in the sun on the warm asphalt is not an uncommon sight. A shepherd bringing his cattle home can stop all the traffic for some time, waiting for the last lingering calf to cross the road. Don't even try opposing him - he and his cattle are at home there, you are the intruder. Use the time to watch the animals - they can be so interesting.

A cottage of my dreams

by evaanna

These traditional timber cottages, which were once used for storage, can be encountered in many parts of Norway. Their characteristic shape cannot pass unnoticed, as you don't see it anywhere else. The upper part of the cottage is wider than its base. Usually, you have a living-room cum kitchen downstairs and the bedrooms upstairs. To get to the bedroom you sometimes have to climb a ladder. The roof often has turf on it for extra warmth but also to make the construction heavier and thus protect it from the strong winds. The cottage is usually colourful with some contrastive colours used, deep red being the favourite colour. Just look at the photo - isn't it charming?

A Lady selling salmon fish

by olja1234

Very frequent seeing. A salmonf fish - mhm, very tasteful.For those, fanciers of fish, especially salmon fish - this is the place. You can buy it everywhere. And I'm one of those, who likes fish food very much.

Asatru neopagan revival

by Pierangelo

Norway and Iceland were the countries to longest resist the Church. But eventually the people of Norway were forcibly converted, first by Olaf Tryggvason and then by that Olaf who was later titled Saint for his efforts at eradicating heathenism. They waged an unceasing war against the heathen faith, destroying idols, burning temples, defiling holy places, and killing those who resisted them. "St." Olaf was particularly enthusiastic in his pursuit of a Christian Norway. While he could be good and even fair-minded to those who obeyed him, with heathens he was, even by viking standards, ruthless. He tortured, maimed, and blinded them, drove and burned them from their homes. He doused them with pitch and lit them on fire. He was such a tyrant and a bloody-minded zealot that he became known to those he sought to eradicate as "Olaf the Lawbreaker". Iceland was colonized in great part by those...

Loo? No problem.

by evaanna

Norway is an enormous country and people have to do a lot of travelling. The campsites, for instance, which are so popular with tourists, were not originally built for them but for Norwegians on their way to visit their families in distant parts of the country. To make travelling even more comfortable, toilets have been put in many, sometimes really improbable because completely deserted, places. Some of them are very modern with all the latest appliances, most are spotlessly clean. Special toilets for the disabled are a rule not an exception. Sometimes the traveller can even take a shower there. Brilliant idea, don't you think?

Strawberries

by munki

The short growing season for plants in Norway is helped by the Gulf stream.Norwegian farmers cultivated strawberries in this cold climate. They protect the plants from the frost with black plastic layers.The ripening of the berries is slow down by the cold temperatures creating a unique flavour.

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Q: I am wondering which is the best period for a 1-week ski mountaineering holiday in the Lofoten Area and I would like to know if...

A: The Lofoten (and Vesterålen) islands never have that huge amount of snow, they are out in the Gulf stream. Mind you, they weren't even covered by the ice cap that covered...

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