As a prominent blogger in Norway I receive a lot of questions by email. Generally these are from people keen to move to Norway, many from countries with severe economic problems such as Greece and Spain. But many are just intrigued at how Norway consistently tops the “highest standard of living” polls year after year. [...]
Discovering Norwegian Music – Lillebjørn Nilsen
At last weekend’s memorial concert, the rather difficult task of following the unscheduled appearance of Bruce Springsteen was handed to Lillebjørn Nilsen. There was no better person for it. An Oslo Folk Hero Not widely known outside Scandinavia, Lillebjørn released his first album way back in 1971. His music is a shining example of what [...]
A Thousand Thank Yous
In my last contribution, we looked at how to not say “please” in Norwegian. You may have gotten the impression (probably because I gave it to you) that Norwegians are rude queue-jumpers who constantly ask you to buy them beer without ever saying please. Now that may or may not be always true, but there [...]
How To Say Please, Without Saying Please
Please make welcome Bryce Miller, our new regular blogger here on Life in Norway. Bryce, originally from Bonnie Scotland, has lived in Bergen for four years and will hopefully even out the Oslo-bias on the blog His area of interest is language so expect a lot of posts about the challenges of learning Norwegian, not [...]
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 [...]
