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Norway: Land Of The Midnight Sun

By Don Kiselewski, MCC, D.S., Palm Beach Gardens Travel Leaders

At 1,600 miles long and
just more than a mile wide
at its narrowest point, the
country of Norway has
a shape that resembles a
tadpole swimming south.
The southern portion is
bound by the North Sea
while the northern portion
reaches above the Arctic
Circle, and it shares
a common border with The Parliament of Norway Building, in Oslo, is the seat for the supreme legislature of Norway, also known as the Storting.
Sweden, Finland and Russia. Norway’s population is It was designed by Swedish architect Emil Victor Langlet.
about 5.4 million* and about one in four Norwegians lives
in the three largest cities: Oslo, Bergen and Stavanger; calm of Geiranger, one of the
English is widely spoken throughout the country. most picturesque spots in all of
The southern portion of Norway is hilly, forested Norway.
and most fertile for food growing, while the northern The North Cape, in Finnmark,
reaches are stark and barren, barely supporting the life is popularly known as the
of the Laplanders who live there. Norway is bound on northernmost point of Europe.
the west by the Norwegian Sea, which slices through the Tourism started here about 120
sheared mountains to form a network of fjords. With these years ago with the visit of King
extremes in terrain, few places in the world can compare Oscar II in 1873, and Thomas
for rugged beauty. Cook arranged the first organized
Likewise, very few countries were influenced as much tour for 24 Englishmen in 1875.
in their development by the terrain and weather as Norway. However, it wasn’t until 1956
As the last ice age receded about 12,000 years ago, hunters that a road was built from the
and fishermen edged northward along the coast and avoided port of Honningsvag to the Cape,
the bitter cold of the interior mountain areas. These original some 20 miles north. Before the
inhabitants established communities along the coastline, road, visitors came by ship and
taking advantage of the warm Gulf Stream.
About the same time the Athenians were building the Travel on page 13 Southern Norway’s fertile hills are ideal for farming.
Parthenon (500 BC), the warming trend suddenly reversed,
bringing extreme cold to the area. During the warmer period,
contemporary drawings were chiseled into rock in Norway
depicting boats carrying as many as 30 men, warriors on
horseback and four-wheeled carts drawn by horses. The Get a second opinion on
growth of the nation was sharply reversed by this new freeze
and a large portion of the population perished. your financial health.
Survival during this period, by necessity, changed the
way the people lived. Men, who before had worn only
a belted cloak, now wore underwear and trousers. The Schedule a complimentary, face-to-face
nomadic lifestyle of the people became agricultural out of
a necessity to secure food and fodder for their livestock. meeting with a Financial Advisor.
People and animals occupied either end of the same house
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as reminders of their past. Small farms cling to the edge
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swim in water about the temperature that most Americans
like their beer. The country’s passion for skiing shines
through in their daily life, much the same as baseball and
football is reflected in ours.
The fjords gave Norwegians their great seafaring Twilight Yoga at the Light
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tradition. From the early Vikings who found Scotland,
Iceland and the rest of Europe easier to reach than their Lighthouse Sunset Tour
own southeast area around Oslo, to the modern traveler Nov. 4 11, 18
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to Hardanger. Along the way they encompass Bergen, Nov. 30
the fjord capital and home of composer Edvard Grieg,
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of glaciers, lakes and waterfalls. The Storfjord has many
arms penetrating deep into the land, and ends in the quiet

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