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Bergen, Norway: Your Complete Guide to the Gateway of the Fjords

Bergen, Norway: Your Complete Guide to the Gateway of the Fjords

Bergen is Norway's second largest city and, for most visitors, its most immediately beautiful. Built on a narrow peninsula between the Byfjord and seven surrounding mountains, the city combines a compact medieval harbour core with an outdoor culture ...

Getting Around Norway: Trains, Ferries, Flights, and Road Trips

Getting Around Norway: Trains, Ferries, Flights, and Road Trips

Norway is a long country — it stretches roughly 1,750 kilometres from its southern tip to North Cape, further north than most of Alaska. Getting around efficiently requires understanding which transport mode suits each leg. The good news: Norway has ...

The Worst State to Live In: Why West Virginia Keeps Facing an Uphill Battle

The Worst State to Live In: Why West Virginia Keeps Facing an Uphill Battle

This is not a comfortable article to write — and it shouldn't be read as an attack on the people of West Virginia, who are resilient, proud, and dealing with circumstances largely shaped by forces outside their individual control. But the data is una...

Oslo's Viking Ship Museum: The World's Best-Preserved Viking Vessels

Oslo's Viking Ship Museum: The World's Best-Preserved Viking Vessels

On the Bygdøy peninsula — Oslo's museum quarter — stands a cross-shaped building of modest exterior and extraordinary interior. The Viking Ship Museum (Vikingskipshuset) holds what is beyond reasonable argument the finest collection of original Vikin...

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...