Happy Mail from Norway!
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Vigeland Park is the life’s work of a single man, the Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland. It is quite unlike anywhere I’ve been. Set within the green expanse of Frogner Park, it holds more than 200 sculptures in bronze, granite, and cast iron, all of them made by him or under his direction. It’s said to
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There are six Nobel Prizes. Five are awarded in Stockholm. One slipped across the border to … Norway! Every December, the Nobel Peace Prize is handed out not in Sweden, but in Norway. It is the only one of Alfred Nobel’s prizes given outside his home country, and that is no accident. When the Swedish
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Every country has a dish that tastes of home. In Norway, it’s a bowl of rømmegrøt – Rømme means sour cream, and grøt means porridge. A warm, pale porridge and it is one of the most quietly beloved things a Norwegian can put in front of you. Here’s how it’s made. You cook full-fat sour
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We all dream of it, don’t we? That glorious stretch of summer when you can step out of the office, feel the sun on your face, and forget for a while that work exists. In Norway, even the cows get one. By law, Norwegian dairy cattle must spend a minimum of eight weeks each year
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Norway is a country I associate with cold northern lights, deep fjords, and a long relationship with the sea. So the last thing I expected to find here was a nation devoted to tacos. Norway is the largest taco-consuming nation outside Mexico. Yup, you heard right. Every Friday evening across Norway, families gather around the
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I was fortunate to have the chance to travel across Norway, from Oslo in the east to Bergen in the west and watched a nation slowly reveal different sides of itself — the polished capital, the quiet farm valleys, the impossible fjords, and finally the salt-washed old port. Oslo: The Calm Capital I began in
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