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Planning Your Winter Trip to Svalbard

January 16, 2020 by Silvia 7 Comments

mary-ann's polarrigg svalbard hotel

I think one of the reasons it took me so long to visit Svalbard is that it felt so remote. And I mean, it is. I visited Spitsbergen, the main island of Svalbard, and it turns out Spitsbergen travel is actually easier than I thought, especially if you're already in Norway. I ...

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7 Reasons to Visit Svalbard in Winter: Northern Lights, Huskies & More

January 9, 2020 by Silvia 8 Comments

Svalbard had been on my bucket list for years, and it felt like the last Norwegian frontier I had yet to explore. I remember as a kid watching the weather forecast on TV when I was in Norway and wondering where this Spitsbergen they always mentioned was. It appeared in a ...

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Have You Heard of Bolga?

December 12, 2019 by Silvia 2 Comments

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My friend Alicia came to visit over Thanksgiving, and while mostly we just wanted to hang out in Mosjøen and binge Christmas movies on Netflix, I also wanted to show Alicia a bit more of Norway. I mean this was her third time visiting me in Norway, but her first time coming up ...

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Norway in a Nutshell Review – Is It Worth It?

October 6, 2019 by Silvia 137 Comments

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Updated 6 October 2019 I can tell summer is just around the corner now, because more and more people are asking me about Norway's most famous tour: Norway in a Nutshell. There are a few different versions of this tour, depending on whether you'll be departing from Oslo, ...

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9 Reasons to Visit Bodø on Your Trip to Norway

September 19, 2019 by Silvia 15 Comments

saltstraumen bridge bodo norway whirlpool

Updated September 2019 I visited Bodø for the first time a couple of years agao as part of my trip to the Lofoten Islands. I flew into Bodø in the morning, had lunch, and caught the ferry to Lofoten. And on my way back my ferry got in late at night and I flew back to Oslo ...

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