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There are some good but expensive backpacks for heavy-duty use made/designed in Norway. If you are looking for something very sturdy and large, for carrying loads up to 30-40 kg, look at the bigger anatomical and alu-frame Bergans and Norrona brands. They will last you forever and simultaneously make a lasting memory and significant dent in your credit card.
My experience is that alu-framed backpacks with a 65%polyester-35tton mix are the best for really heavy carrying on trails and when it's not too much climbing/scrambling involved. For rougher terrain, choose an anatomical back pack.
Around 1800 NOK and up for the 80-litres plus backpacks. Leave a Comment Theme: Sporting GoodsWebsite: See the brand's web sites.
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Varieties of smoked, cured and fresh salomon are good-value gifts to be taken out of Norway. It comes cheap here (not kidding!).
At the duty-free shop at Oslo airport the quality of the salomon is good, but the price is high. You can buy the same thing much cheaper in a supermarket. Look around and you will notice a variety of prices for what seems to be the exact same fish and dish.
If you find the salomon too oily find a smoked trout instead (rokt orret), which has a denser and in my opinion more tasty flesh. If you are really looking for the best quality, go to a fish monger and ask for a junipher-smoked one. Some supermarkets may also have top-quality smoked salomon if you just look around.
Pack your fish, cured, smoked or fresh, in a cooler bag.
Bad quality smoked salomon is exessively oily/fat, a bit squashy and softer flesh. Good quality shows by firmer, darker and drier flesh.
Fresh wild salomon: 150 up NOK/kg (superb!)
Fresh farmed salomon: 50 NOK/kg
Frozen farmed rainbow trout: 30 NOK/kg
Medium quality smoked salomon: 90-110 NOK/kg
High quality smoked salomon: 120-150 NOK/kg
Smoked trout: 90-120 NOK/kg Leave a Comment Theme: Food and Drink
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For ecologically grown foods, local as well as imported, try Helios. Helios is linked to the biodynamic movement that may exclude other products. They have several shops around Norway, mainly located in the bigger cities. Check www.helios.no
Regular farms also produce ecologically/organically (no chemical fertilizer/pesticides etc). These products are either sold through regular outlets - any supermarket would have them - or farmers' markets and directly from farms as advertised along roads or in newspapers. Vheck for the "Debio" mark, which is the national authority approving organically grown foods. Leave a Comment Theme: Food and Drink
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When shopping at the supermarket chain KIWI, it is possible to end up being paid for grocery shopping.
Fruit / vegetables: If you find any bad fruit or veg, you are entitled to a double refund for the item(s). And don't be shy, if all the mangos are dodgy-looking, grab 'em all, bring them to the till and tell them you want a refund. You will have to actually buy the items first, and then you get the double refund.
All products: You are entitled to a full cash refund on any item (including beer) that expired the previous day (or earlier). On items expiring the same or the next day, you will either get the item(s) for free or, if the shop cannot offer the same item with a longer expiry date, you will get a cash refund. However, beer will only be compensated with a cash refund. Leave a Comment Theme: Food and Drink
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Norway produces - well - designs... some good brands of sleeping bags. There are bags for extreme winter conditions as well as the more tropical variety. You will be told that the combination bag does not exist, so you need to have an opinon of what kind of conditions you will be using your potential bag. With a long zipper you will have a wider usage sleeping bag, but for outdoor winter use, do not choose a zippered one.
Good brand names are Ajungilak, Alaska and Helsport.
For summer use, choose one with a zipper all the way down, and not a down-filled one (costly and difficult to keep clean in the long run, and won't cope well with wetness).
A "comfort temperature" of -5 or -8 would do for the mountains, too, in the summer and would still leave you with a bag weighing around 1 kilo. These temperature indications are anyway not reliable as it is very individual how you expereince cold.
I notice the producers change their product lines all the time, so you may well find a very good sleeping bag that doesn't exist in any contemporary catalogue, and is quite cheap. It may be last year's model or even before that, but quality-wise it doesn't mean anything. There are no fakes.
For summer use as described above, expect to pay around NOK 800-1000 for a good qaulity, not discounted one. Leave a Comment Theme: Sporting GoodsOther Contact: Check internet for the brands
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Because this odd country is not a member of the EU, there are not the customs barriers against the Far East such as EU has. That makes cameras, computers and other consumer electronics relatively cheap compared to the rest of Europe.
It doesn't really pay for Norwegians to do this shopping abroad anymore, except in places where there is a huge market and stiff competition and low wages such as New York's camera shops.
About the same as the duty-free prices in Amsterdam Airport - but you do need to look around a little first. Leave a Comment Theme: Computers and Electronics
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The Post shouldn't need much description? But, sorry, this is not so: The statal post services are being part-privatised and outsourced and it is beginning to be difficult to find a bone fide post office.
One outsourcing takes place as "post i butikk" - having simple postal services located at kiosks, grocery shops, corner stores etc. These sub-offices cannot do advanced postal services. And they are very hard to locate. Very limited visual recognition of the fact the shop has a post office, too. No wonder private postal offices and services are popping up, like Mail Boxes Etc inc.
If you are travelling and looking for a post office, or simply for a place where you can buy stamps, use the net to minimize hassles if locals cannot tell you where to find one. The way to do it is to enter www.posten.no, continue to "Finn Posten" and click on your appropriate town on the map or search py post/zip code. A map of post offices in the area chosen will pop up on your screen. Leave a Comment
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The wine monopoly stores around the country and the taxfree shops will have "Krekling Arctic Crowberry Frost". Subtitled "wilderness transformed to liquor".
I make this myself, but in lieu of this, buy this as a souvenir from Norway. Sweet, but definitiely the crowberry taste. A good aperitif you can serve your guests when you show photos of potholed roads, rain and sleet photos from your trip to Norway. Leave a Comment
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 Norwegian Troll by daarth
Several things would be typical, depending on what you like. I would say the most typical is probably a troll figure. You can get them in all sizes and in all price ranges from the little plastic one to the hand-carved one in wood. Another typical craft is tinwear. They are not cheap, but you can get a nice Viking boat in tin. Leave a Comment Theme: Gifts
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