Norway Travel Blogs

Been there, hardly done that! So I had to go all the way to my home country Norway in order to chicken out. I felt pretty brave after having survived Latin America for 15 months on my own, but ended up a "pingle" once more after my latest excursion. I ...

A travel blog entry from Stavanger by stevefn
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Elverum for Christmas.

A travel blog entry from Elverum by stevefn
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... avoided the big "L" on my forehead, phew. To be honest I could have easily gone for much longer, maybe including a short break in Norway before jumping on to New Zealand and/or Asia, but I have other plans as you will soon discover. Well, I don't have ...

A travel blog entry from Elverum by stevefn
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... family and friends. To name a tiny few. I revisited my two favorite childhood beaches along Glomma, the largest river in Norway. I enjoyed a few good parties with friends both in Elverum and Oslo, and rediscovered the meaning of a flipping fun nachspiel ( ...

A travel blog entry from Oslo and Elverum by stevefn
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... for the trip. We wandered around the town, visited the gift shops and shopping centers. Since everything is expensive in Norway, I only bought very limited number of souvenirs. I bought some postcards and prints to my friends and a glass candle holder to ...

A travel blog entry from Tromsø by cristinaw
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... (and my sister in law and my brother of course. Spot the proud auntie eh?) More big hugs all around. Two weeks in Norway were a whirlwind. My oldest nephew started school, I went to see an auntie, cousins, great-auntie, uncle. I probably saw more ...

A travel blog entry from Kristiansand by mette
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... know, that didn't happen. Instead I spent all my time in Latin America. And now, sitting here in my parents house back in Norway, I wouldn't have had it any other way. I have no regrets whatsoever, it's been the best 467 days of my life (no big surprise ...

A travel blog entry from Elverum by stevefn
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... , we entered the Geiranger Fjord, a Unesco World Heritage site and commonly agreed to be the most beautiful fjord in Norway. The fjord is typically narrow, gracefully curving, and bordered with steep cliffs sporting slender waterfalls - even at this ...

A travel blog entry from Geiranger by chronometers
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Elverum for a week.

A travel blog entry from Elverum by stevefn
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... boat ride, we arrived in Bergen around 8 p.m.  Hotels in Bergen are incredibly expensive, (actually, everything in all of Norway is incredibly expensive!) so we found a 2 bedroom apartment in a residential area where we stayed for the evening.   ...

A travel blog entry from Bergen by chronometers
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... goods to Europe took place here around 1000 AD.  After the capital moved to Bergen (1217), Trondheim became Norway's religious center (actually, pilgrims started coming to the shrine of St. Olav 200 years earlier). Nidaros Cathedral, built from 1070- ...

A travel blog entry from Trondheim by chronometers
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I thought it was time to show Johana that Norway is a helluva lot more than just snow and freezing temperatures. Well it was a gamble actually, as we didn't make it there before mid-September (and also didn't really plan to visit more sites than my ...

A travel blog entry from Elverum by stevefn
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Elverum for Christmas. 15 below...

A travel blog entry from Elverum by stevefn
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***For some reason Svalbard isn't on the TravelPod map, but rest assured it's between the northern most point of Norway and the North Pole (which is a mere 600 miles away)*** I checked in at Tromso's airport a good 6 hours before my 11.50pm flight in ...

A travel blog entry from Svalbard and Jan Mayen by rich
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... small and would have been crammed had the maximum number of seventy been there. Most of the people who visit Svalbard are from Norway or Sweden, and this trip was no different as I was the only person whose first language was English. It seems that ...

A travel blog entry from Svalbard by rich
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Next up on my busy schedule was a 6-7 hour walk to the summit of Trollsteinen (850m), this time as part of a group of eight people. However, eight soon became six when an American lady really struggled with the opening steep hike and consequently turned ...

A travel blog entry from Svalbard by rich
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I was aching all over when I woke up on Sunday morning, and I could quite happily have stayed in bed, but I had a full day cruise to look forward to so I eventually got up. For the first time since my arrival, the weather was quite poor with thick clouds ...

A travel blog entry from Svalbard by rich
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... isbjorn. I browsed through the souvenir shops on my way back to the guesthouse and bought a few little mementos, before getting an early night ahead of a busy day that will see me return to the altogether warmer climate of Oslo in the south of Norway...

A travel blog entry from Svalbard by rich
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... Balestrand is a fantastic little place amidst the fjords. I took a boat from Bergen and went along through Sognefjord, Norway's longest, deepest fjord. Along the way were stupendous waterfalls, massive walls of granite and picture perfect farms and houses. ...

A travel blog entry from Balestrand by charmedlife
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On Friday 22nd, Johana and I headed for my hometown Elverum in Norway, to celebrate a few days of Christmas with family and friends. It was Johana's first time in Norway, so I was keen on showing her the ridiculous amount of snow and insanely freezing ...

A travel blog entry from Elverum by stevefn
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After a lovely holiday from the holiday in Melbourne, I'm back in Europe, this time in Oslo, Norway. I've fallen in love with Oslo, but maybe that is because the weather has been so nice. It's actually hot here! And is is only dark for a couple of hours ...

A travel blog entry from Oslo by aussierach
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... I've got the trusty credit card, it would be stupid to get into debt on a country that looks far less exciting than Norway anyway (sorry Kristian!). So, I booked a flight from Tromso to Oslo with the aim of finishing my jaunt on a high... My only ...

A travel blog entry from Oslo by rich
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Last night we caught the overnight bus from Stockholm to Oslo. The evening started out ok as getting a bite to eat we thought we were very clever by getting rid of all our Swedish Kronor coins. That was until the PowerAid drink we'd had for dinner ...

A travel blog entry from Oslo by eatdessertfirst
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A couple of hours away from Haugesund is Stavenger, which has - ta da - a fjord. and what the hell is a trip to Norway with a bit of fjord surfing, ok, a bit of traveling up a fjord on a weird tourist boat that plays dramatic music at such compelling ...

A travel blog entry from Stavenger by itsem
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Tromso is often referred to as the Paris of the North, but I can't say I really saw the similarily. To me it had more of a Baltic feel. It was nice, though. The weather was fine, and the temperature was about 15 degrees, despite its latitude of 69 degrees ...

A travel blog entry from Tromso by aussierach
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Our night in Oslo was interesting. The other roommates had been out for the night arriving back fairly quietly at about midnight. A few hours later the room was awoken by one of the guys, we think he was drunk, snoring his heart out. He actually snored ...

A travel blog entry from Oslo by eatdessertfirst
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... to Myrdal from where we transferred to a small gauge railway to Flam and then a fast ferry down the longest fjord in Norway - the Sognefjord. During our afternoon in Oslo we walked down to the harbor from where we could take a ferry across the Oslo ...

A travel blog entry from Oslo by chronometers
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All I can say for now is WOW!! Because I said it pretty much every day. Pondering coming back to do the Hurtigruten cruise when the price drops in half on Sept. 1.........and going all the way north. Fantastic, incredible, cold and misty, the land of ...

A travel blog entry from Bergen by charmedlife
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... sharing a room with the next night - so it was a mixed bag to start with! I'd vowed not to drink any alcohol whilst in Norway after hearing the horror stories about the price of a beer, but I relented on my very first night and we all had a few bottles ...

A travel blog entry from Oslo by rich
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... photo opportunity in snow covered Finse, 1222 metres above sea level. It was an early reminder of why I chose to come to Norway, and I immediately adored Bergen as I walked down the cobbled streets leading from the train station. It was a very quaint city, ...

A travel blog entry from Bergen by rich
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