I’ve just spent a few days at Sanderstølen with some really powerful bacteria, transmitted by a certain 6-year-old. But chills and fever aren’t enough to stop me from attending our notable annual economics conference in this out-of-the-way beauty spot in the Norwegian mountains. No cross country skiing during lunch for me, though.
Last week, Sanderstølen was also the venue of the annual conference of the Energy Policy Foundation of Norway, gathering all the world’s oil elite. The tiny mountain airport at Fagernes is also known as The place of heavenly peace. Because it’s high up in the mountains and beautifully located near heaven, you ask? Well, it is all of that, but we’re not that nice. It’s because there’s very little traffic for most of the year.
Not last week, however. This is the busiest week of the year for this tiny airport in Valdres Valley, when several of the oil sheiks arrive by personal jets to meet in the Norwegian mountains.
Valdres photo by randihausken/flickr’s Creative Commons
