Tag: norway
More than a thousand years ago, viking raiders traveled the seas in their dragon boats and viking traders carried goods along the fjords. When raiders turned to more peaceful …
Hygge — that’s said hooga– is a word in Danish. There’s not a word in English that quite gets at its meaning. It is related to a Norwegian word …
Crossing borders goes along with traveling. In many ways crossing borders goes along with playing music, too. In both cases, there’s an art to keeping centered while taking on …
All last week I’ve had Oslo on my mind. Maybe it was because I had been looking at the itinerary of the Crown Princess Baltic cruise that the mother …
Their story begins in medieval times, almost ten times a hundred years ago. Viking navigators sailed out from Norway to Greenland, where they traded for walrus tusk and whale …
The fiddle is one of the world’s more portable instruments. It is also one whose sound is often heard as recalling the human voice, and certainly often found in …
In travel, like life, things don’t always go to plan. But even when disaster strikes, there is usually a silver lining. You just have to find it. So while Mom …