The Sami people are an ethnic population of approximately 164’000 living in the Northern part of the Nordic countries spread over Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Every evening around 6pm, we can watch the news in Sami with Norwegian subtitles on NRK (Norwegian radio television). They have different languages with very interesting alphabets that I …
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Welcome to Norway
Two days ago a Norwegian friend showed me this very funny video. It will give you in 3 minutes a brief idea of the culture we are surrounded by. 😀
Short visit in Bodø, north of the Arctic Circle
Thanks to a new temporary job, I have the pleasure to visit a bit of Norway. Yesterday I flew to Bodø a town in the northern part of Norway with 48’000 inhabitants (Link to Bodø on Wikipedia). It is 18 hours away from Oslo by train up north and 1.5 hours flying. In four months …
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Happy New Year 2012
We wish you all a Happy New Year 2012! Here is a nice video of the Northern lights that shines upper north…
Vakre Norge (Beautiful Norway)
Yesterday I went for a small bike tour along the sea of Oslo and ended up to the beautiful and new Opera house. Here a few pictures about it: