There are two key events that help make a new place truly feel like home: 1. having someone visit you and getting to show off all your new local knowledge 2. leaving for a trip somewhere else and getting to return home. I'm taking care of the second one right now - I'm typing ...
Norway
A Run-In with the Norwegian Mafia
A review of Stiftsstaden AS Trondheim - how they totally screwed us over I've said it before, but I'm going to say it again: I am SO happy to be living in Norway! After having spent many a magical holiday here as a child I was a little worried that the reality of non-vacation ...
August 2015 – 1 Month in Norway
This is going to make me sound like the Grinch Who Stole Summer, but I had been dreading August for probably the past six months. I know, I know. Like, I know. Watermelon, beaches, suntans, picnics, swimming - summer is awesome! But what I find a little less awesome is times of ...
Norway’s Prettiest: Hardangervidda and Gaustatoppen
When I said farewell to Alicia and Bryce in Mongolia I knew I'd be seeing them soon somewhere. And sure enough, five months later they turned up on my grandmother's doorstep in Norway! My grandmother lives in Bø, Telemark, which though boasting Norway's biggest water park might ...
Summer in Trondheim
When Dan and I first arrived in Trondheim a few weeks ago, it was cold. Like, really cold. Like, the end of July and 50 degrees out. Not only that, but it rained every single day. It was a little alarming, but I grew to accept that this new home of mine would simply always be ...