Monday Night Travel – Norwegian Edition I work as a guide and guidebook writer for Rick Steves Europe, and when Rick e-mailed me and asked if I wanted to co-host his Monday Night Travel Show,…
Promenade along the waterfront This promenade stretches almost 10 kilometers from the west to the east of the Oslo waterfront. A fairly new route, covering an area that not many years ago was largely inaccessible…
Walking in Oslo I don’t know about you, but I’ve done a lot of walking during the pandemic. Living in Oslo I really enjoy walking down by the Oslo fjord. Actually, one of my favorite…
When you travel it’s always nice to know a few of the local words and phrases. It can be a good way to break the ice with the locals, and it can also help you…
Rakfisk – Fermented trout As the Christmas season starts in Norway, so does the season for enjoying many of our traditional dishes. I’ve decided to present to you one of the more peculiar ones… It’s…
Norwegian Christmas Cookies with Karin The Christmas season is upon us, and that means Christmas cookies. In Norway there are officially seven kinds. Known as “De syv slag”. Traditionally the seven kinds would have to…
The Atlantic Ocean Road The Atlantic Ocean Road (Atlanterhavsveien). You find it in the mid-western part of Norway, just about an hour drive north of the city of Molde. Or a seven hour drive north…
Goat cheese, brown cheese, gjetost, geitost, brunost, mysost…”a well liked child goes by many names”, as we say in Norwegian. Ask most Norwegians how it’s made and they’ll say “I have no idea how…
Fall has arrived and it’s time to cook up a pot of Fårikål (lamb and cabbage / mutton stew), the national dish of Norway. This dish is simple, but delicious. It may be hard to…
As a long-time owner of a 27-foot Albin Vega sailboat, I have always imagined that the opposite of a sailing holiday in a small boat at sea, is a car holiday in a small motorhome…