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| Bergen: The Bryggen, the Pigvignen
2008-08-20, Bergen, Norway. By: bolioboy | | Scandinavia 2008 - Day 20
So tired from the last few days activities, as well as sleeping on that horrible Styrofoam pad the last few nights, I slept in till 10am, awaking refreshed and ready to g... |
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| The Sapphire Skies of Sogndal
2008-08-17, sogndalsfjora, Norway. By: bolioboy | | Scandinavia 2008 - Day 17
Up well before the café downstairs opened, I walked with my gear to the train station where I managed a sandwich and coke before getting on my train to lead me across the... |
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 | Finse and Oslo
2009-07-15, Oslo, Norway. By: gisi | | Day two Finse
We got up at eight and had our breakfast, it was a nice morning and was very warm. We caught the ten to ten train to Finse. Once at Finse we found somewhere to drop off our bags and st... |
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 | Frogner Parken and the Great Moon
2008-08-16, Oslo, Norway. By: bolioboy | |
Scandinavia 2008 - Day 16
Saturday morning started off easily with a trip to the Vikingskiphuset. I road over to Bogdoy Peninsula on a short ferry boat ride. From there I walked the mansion line... |
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 | I Am Not the Screaming Man
2008-08-15, Oslo, Norway. By: bolioboy | |
Scandinavia 2008 - Day 165
This morning has been great. After a semi-lousy “English Breakfast” at the café below the hostel I walked to the historical museum and waited for it to open. It was a ... |
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| Arriving in Oslo
2008-08-14, Oslo, Norway. By: bolioboy | | Scandinavia 2008 - Day 14
This morning I walked to a nearby grocers to buy some food for breakfast. I bought milk, eggs, and a bag of frozen chopped potatoes with some mystery meat. Later I discov... |
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| Inga Lami 15K
2008-03-06, LILLEHAMMER, Norway. By: jodifoster | | Lillehammer was home to the 1994 Winter Olympic games at which Nordic skiing was the primary attraction.
The pre race mood for the Inga Lami was very interesting. Into the starting pen we went. I ... |
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 | Last few days
2007-12-20, Oslo, Norway. By: ethann | | Just got back from a week-long trip through Norway and Sweden with Teddy and Dustin (in Sweden). First went to Stavanger, Norway. They call it the cultural city in Norway, and it was very quaint. The ... |
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| Last of November
2007-11-30, Oslo, Norway. By: ethann | | Well friends, it's the last of November. To usher in the new month is a bantering of fresh snow on the tree limbs. Though it is hardly the first snow of the season, we inhabitants wonder if this is th... |
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| New installment
2007-11-14, Oslo, Norway. By: ethann | | Quit my job at the kitchen. Left on good terms. Now I have more free time. Classes are winding down too. 2 ten page term papers and a final report left to go. 5 1/2 weeks left in Oslo.
Played a sh... |
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| brief update
2007-10-22, Oslo, Norway. By: ethann | | Another week has thus begun. Ethan looks forward to London on Thursday, and the prospect of a Vooredoms show to boot. With a group report due and a solo presentation to give, our hero faces an intense... |
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 | A worthy update***
2007-09-31, Oslo, Norway. By: ethann | | Well friends, it seems as if September came and went in an instant. October is here tomorrow morning, and fall weather is fully underway in Oslo this year. Already have the leaves changed to yellows a... |
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| negativland
2007-09-05, Oslo, Norway. By: ethann | | The end of August was quite eventful for our cunning protagonist. The tug of adventure was in full force, and on a bright Thursday morning Ethan and Dustin headed down E18 on foot. Thumbs were stuck i... |
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| Njal's Saga (has nothing to do with this entry)
2007-08-25, Oslo, Norway. By: ethann | | After printing five copies of his updated resume from the Blindern Campus library, our hero strikes out on the town in search of work. Accompanied by his flatmate Asia, they enter Hard Rock Cafe on Ka... |
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 | Life so far. . .*
2007-08-20, Oslo, Norway. By: ethann | | With heavy bags and a train ticket I stepped through the gates. Once on the train to Oslo Central Station, my comrades from the plane and I talked excitedly on an otherwise silent car. The train moved... |
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 | The Changing Of The Guard...Or Not
2007-06-14, Oslo, Norway. By: tjtunes | | Oslo is a place I have been many time due to the numerous amount of Norwegians who studied with me at Leeds College of Music in the UK. Life here is geared towards the outdoors and the beautiful harb... |
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 | Spontaneous - Sorry if this story is confusing.
2007-01-18, Bergen, Norway. By: marc | | So, on Friday afternoon we were playing a bit of soccer. Afterwards, I though I should go to a grocery store to buy some food for dinner, but this german guy, that I don't know, tells me that he want... |
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 | Norweigan Drinking Games
2007-01-12, Bergen, Norway. By: marc | | On Friday night the exchange committee believed it would be a good idea to teach us a whole bunch of drinking games so we could be socially accepted by Norwegians. They tooks us down to the campus ba... |
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 | So Much Shrimp
2007-01-10, Bergen, Norway. By: Marc | | For dinner the international exchange committee decided to treat us to a wonderful shrimp dinner. They ordered 50 kilos of shrimp for the exchange students to devour. We first needed a little lesson... |
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 | Where am I?
2007-01-07, Bergen, Norway. By: marc | | So the first day some of us decided to meet up and take the bus into town. It's about a 10 minute bus ride into town. Since it was Sunday everything was pretty much closed, except for McDonalds of c... |
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 | Sweet, sweet Scandinavia
2006-12-05, Oslo, Norway. By: wywroota | | [Person appearing in my journal before as my Girlfriend, from now on, is going to be marked by me as X. I hope it's understandable. I hope it clarifies.]
It sometimes gets very lucky, when you work... |
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 | One last WooHoo!
2006-09-18, Torp, Norway. By: aw80sa | | Well, it's that time again. Taking off on another adventure. This time it's India.
Let me catch you up on a few things since I've been in Norway. As you can see on the homepage, I made the picture ... |
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| Fjord by Boat
2006-09-14, Bergen, Norway. By: cmcr49 | | W had thrilling and relaxing last 2+ days. Our very early departure from Billund, Denmark, took us to Oslo airport, then by train up the fjord country. Most of this 6 hour train trip was pastoral Norw... |
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| Rural Denmark
2006-09-14, Flam, Norway. By: cmcr49 | | I've spent the last two days in Jutland — this is the rural part of Denmark out to the west. Jutland is a peninsula, the lower portion of which is Germany. We visited our host/trainer's friend who is ... |
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| I don`t see any Vikings around...
2006-09-06, Kristiansand, Norway. By: aw80sa | | Well, I made it to Norway, finally. It took a full day longer than expected but I am here. I ended up spending a full day in Denmark after finding out that there was no bus to the city that the ferry ... |
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 | klem og kyss (hugs and kisses)
2006-08-01, Oslo, Norway. By: lizzdailey | | Although sleeping in the airport in Amsterdam was not the most fun thing I have done, I survived. I have since arrived safely in Norway, and have been having the most wonderful last few days. The weat... |
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 | Funny Times in Norway......:)
2006-06-09, Voss, Norway. By: gertjonnys | | Now with any kind of adventure, some funny stories always exist, so here are a few from my travels in Norway:
CRAZY SHOWER --- On arrival at the Voss Lakeside Hostel, I decided to go hiking in the ... |
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| Mountains...Glaciers....Water...New Friends
2006-06-09, Voss, Norway. By: gertjonnys | | One of the things that I have found about the Norwegian people is that they tend to be reserved. Not many say "Hello" if you pass them on the street or are sitting next to them on the subway....but i... |
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