Gavin and I spent last weekend in Estonia and Finland – two places we’d wanted to visit this year. The capital cities – Tallinn and Helsinki – are only 50 miles apart by ferry, so it was easy to combine them into a single trip. I’ll cover this trip in two posts so as not […]

Påskeferie, or the Easter Holiday, is a big deal in Norway. Most people get the whole week off of work, and Norwegians take to the mountains for one last long ski trip before spring arrives in earnest. We were visited over Påskeferie by our friends Jenn Howell and Claudia Lee. They spent a few days […]

It’s Amerikanske Uker – “American Weeks” — at the local Bunnpris grocery store. Our attention was piqued for two reasons.  First, Norwegian interpretations of other cultures can be, um, less than nuanced.  Second, with respect and love, Norwegian food is bad, and Norwegian interpretations of other people’s food is bad. For a great example of […]