Happy 2016! My family celebrated at my grandmother's home in Bø, which was positively magical. In recent years I guess I always felt too cool to stay home for New Year's and have instead gone off to places like Edinburgh and London to celebrate with friends, so I had forgotten ...
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Holiday Greetings from My New Home!
A lot of places saw an unusually warm Christmas this year - my parents said it was nearly 70 degrees in Massachusetts! - and much of Norway was no exception. Trondheim was snowy when I left and Bø was snowy when I arrived, but by Christmastime all that snow had been rained away. ...
The Best (and Weirdest) Norwegian Christmas Traditions
Wait, it's already December 21? Forget blogging, I need to go downtown and buy some wrapping paper! Then again, I still have a cup of hot chocolate to finish, so I guess I could stay for a bit. Plus, I have photos of Christmas cookies to share and Norwegian Christmas ...
Bye Bye, Trondheim
I'm writing this post from the train from Trondheim down to my grandmother's home in Bø, Telemark. It's a 12+ hour journey, but one of the prettiest train rides I know. We'll be going over the mountains soon and I'm going to keep an eye out for reindeer and muskoxen! I'll be ...
5 Norwegian TV Shows that Prove Norway is Crazy
Norwegian tv series are some of the oddest shows I've seen. In a good way? Read on... Trondheim turned into a winter wonderland this weekend with a fresh coat of sparkly snow (did you see my Instagram?), but something else wintry is happening here as well: it is getting dark. ...