Hi Ho, Hi ho, off to Oslo we go

The last week of this trip begins with another long bus ride for me and, inevitably, another history lesson for you. The last nine photos and one video in the photo album about Geirangerfjord linked in yesterday’s post are from …

What do you want with a fjord if you’ve got a hjorse? Or, It’s a boat time.

Before we were distracted by the glacier, I was describing the eventual breakup of what historians refer to as the Kalmar Union and we had taken a temporal trip to November 1520 and the Stockholm Bloodbath. So, as we get …

On Sunday we spot a glacier

In a previous post I wrote that three percent of Norway is glaciated but until today, we had seen no evidence of that. In part, this is because glaciers are found on only one percent of Norway’s mainland and in …