Those new to Norway will notice some bizarre sights between now and 17th May: Teenagers lounging around the place wearing coloured (usually red) overalls Party buses cruising the roads playing bass-heavy music Fountains full of washing-up liquid It’s all part of Norway’s annual celebration for high school graduates – Russefeiring. Rather than me as an [...]
Interview with Kristian Nesser – Life in Small-Town Norway
As regular readers will have noticed, I recently spent some time in the Grong region of central Norway. It’s a region famous for its salmon rivers but largely ignored by travellers. I spent a night in a mountain cabin on the spectacular Geitfjellet mountains, my first experience of mountain life in rural Norway. In these [...]
Trondheim – Norway’s Smart City
Take a look at Trondheim. The famous Nidaros Cathedral, riverside wharves, wooden mansions and narrow streets conjure up images of days long gone. Not the place, then, you’d expect to find Norway’s beating heart of digital technology. Stockholm and Helsinki dominate the Nordic start-up revolution, but Trondheim is a surprising player in science and [...]
Working at a Norwegian University
The conversation goes by in a curious mixture of norwegian, broken norwegian, english and sometimes a bit of spanish. It amazes me how well Ana can speak so many languages apart from her native tagalog. As she finishes cleaning my office, I thank her and bid her goodbye, wishing her well in her incoming travel [...]
A Mexican View on Norway
As much as I love sharing my thoughts and observations on Norway and Norwegians, you’ve heard plenty from me lately. So here I present Life in Norway’s second guest post, this time from Gerry. He works at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science & Technology) and moved from Mexico to Norway in April 2010… Through the [...]
