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Norwegian Food: What to Eat and Drink When Visiting Norway

Norwegian Food: What to Eat and Drink When Visiting Norway

Norwegian food is a product of its geography and climate. Long, dark winters encourage preservation — curing, smoking, drying, fermenting. The North Sea and Norwegian Sea provide an extraordinary abundance of fish and seafood. Dairy farming thrives i...

Viking Age Norway: History, Myths, and Where to Experience It Today

Viking Age Norway: History, Myths, and Where to Experience It Today

The Viking Age — broadly defined as the period from the first recorded Norse raid (Lindisfarne Monastery, 793 AD) to the Battle of Hastings (1066 AD) — transformed medieval Europe and established Norse seafarers as the most wide-ranging explorers of ...

Seeing the Northern Lights in Norway: When, Where, and How

Seeing the Northern Lights in Norway: When, Where, and How

The Northern Lights — aurora borealis — are caused by charged particles from the sun colliding with gases in Earth's upper atmosphere, producing curtains and ribbons of coloured light across the night sky. Norway, sitting directly beneath the auroral...

Norwegian Fjords: A Complete Guide to the World's Most Spectacular Waterways

Norwegian Fjords: A Complete Guide to the World's Most Spectacular Waterways

There is no landform quite like a fjord. Carved by glaciers advancing and retreating over millions of years, these narrow sea inlets — flanked by sheer rock walls rising hundreds of metres — combine the intimacy of a valley with the depth of an ocean...

Brighton Beach, Brooklyn: New York's Russian Neighbourhood Explained

Brighton Beach, Brooklyn: New York's Russian Neighbourhood Explained

On the southern tip of Brooklyn, where the elevated B and Q train lines ride above Brighton Beach Avenue and the boardwalk runs east from Coney Island, there is a neighbourhood unlike anywhere else in the United States. The storefronts are in Cyrilli...

Greece and Money: The Euro, the Debt Crisis, and the Economy Today

Greece and Money: The Euro, the Debt Crisis, and the Economy Today

Greece uses the euro (€) as its currency — has done since 2001 when it joined the eurozone, two years after the euro's initial launch. For travelers, this means the same currency as France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and 17 other European countries: no e...

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