Page 10 - Martin Downs Bulletin - November '20

Page 10, Martin Downs

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Norway: Land Of The drawn by horses. The
growth of the nation
Midnight Sun was sharply reversed
by this new freeze and
By Don Kiselewski, MCC, a large portion of the
D.S., Palm Beach Gardens population perished.
Travel Leaders Survival during this
At 1,600 miles long and period, by necessity,
just more than a mile wide changed the way the
at its narrowest point, the people lived. Men, who
country of Norway has before had worn only
a shape that resembles a a belted cloak, now
tadpole swimming south. wore underwear and
The southern portion is trousers. The nomadic
bound by the North Sea lifestyle of the people
while the northern portion became agricultural out
reaches above the Arctic Circle, and it shares a common of a necessity to secure
border with Sweden, Finland and Russia. Norway’s food and fodder for
population is about 5.4 million* and about one in four their livestock. People Southern Norway’s fertile hills are ideal for farming.
Norwegians lives in the three largest cities: Oslo, Bergen and animals occupied
and Stavanger; English is widely spoken throughout the either end of the same
country. house – an unhygienic
The southern portion of Norway is hilly, forested but necessary form of
and most fertile for food growing, while the northern central heating.
reaches are stark and barren, barely supporting the life With the passing
of the Laplanders who live there. Norway is bound on of time, construction
the west by the Norwegian Sea, which slices through the techniques improved.
sheared mountains to form a network of fjords. With these Timber homes were now
extremes in terrain, few places in the world can compare built utilizing soil on the
for rugged beauty. roof for insulation. The
Likewise, very few countries were influenced as farmers would often
much in their development by the terrain and weather as control the grass and
Norway. As the last ice age receded about 12,000 years weed that grew on their
ago, hunters and fishermen edged northward along the roofs by putting goats
coast and avoided the bitter cold of the interior mountain up there. By using soil to insulate their roofs, early Norwegians inadvertently created Chia homes.
areas. These original inhabitants established communities Today’s Norwegians
along the coastline, taking advantage of the warm Gulf l i ve i n a m ode rn,
Stream. independent country,
About the same time the Athenians were building although remnants of
the Parthenon (500 BC), the warming trend suddenly these harsh times still
reversed, bringing extreme cold to the area. During the exist as reminders of
warmer period, contemporary drawings were chiseled their past. Small farms
into rock in Norway depicting boats carrying as many as cling to the edge of
30 men, warriors on horseback and four-wheeled carts the seemingly endless
fjords, fighting Mother
CDC COVID-19 Travel Nature’s steep mountain
slopes to capture enough
Recommendations land to cultivate.
Norwegi ans a re
By Country avid outdoorsmen and
sportsmen. They swim
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/ in water about the Children of the World by Eva Rybakken, located at the North Cape
map-and-travel-notices.html temperature that most
Americans like their beer. The country’s passion for of glaciers, lakes and waterfalls. The Storfjord has many
skiing shines through in their daily life, much the same
L
arms penetrating deep into the land, and ends in the quiet
L AVARGNA AW PLLC as baseball and football is reflected in ours. calm of Geiranger, one of the most picturesque spots in
The fjords gave Norwegians their great seafaring
all of Norway.
tradition. From the early Vikings who found Scotland,
Iceland and the rest of Europe easier to reach than their The North Cape, in Finnmark, is popularly known as
the northernmost point of Europe. Tourism started here
. own southeast area around Oslo, to the modern traveler about 120 years ago with the visit of King Oscar II in
choosing a ship as the most comfortable way to travel
1873, and Thomas Cook arranged the first organized tour
. Wills and Trusts this magnificent coastline, the sea provides the link. The for 24 Englishmen in 1875. However, it wasn’t until 1956
. Probate fjords begin at Stavanger in the south and stretch north that a road was built from the port of Honningsvag to
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. Business Matters to Hardanger. Along the way they encompass Bergen, the Cape, some 20 miles north. Before the road, visitors
the fjord capital and home of composer Edvard Grieg,
as well as the Storfjord fjord, which is found in an area Travel on page 11

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