G'day folks! It's 1 September, first Sunday of autumn. Time for a local focus, I thought. If Oslo is on your radar this colourful season, here's a piece I wrote for Thai Airways' inflight magazine a while ago, updated today, just for you. Enjoy! [...]
-What are you doing the third Friday in January? Tom and Andrew asked. Or words to that effect. -Eh... nothing special. -We might squeeze in a flying visit to Oslo. Are you planning to be around, or might you be jet-setting somewhere? Next to my kids, [...]
By Alexandra Redisch in Bergen At the old Sentralbadet (public swimming pool) in Bergen, you will no longer find the smell of chlorine, but rather the scent of gingerbread - and Christmas itself. This is the site of the largest gingerbread town in the world. [...]
It’s that time of year again: the julebord season. The month before Christmas is a somewhat gluttonous period here in Norway. It probably is in your country as well, but your menu might be a bit different. Up here at the edge of the world, [...]
By Catarina Redisch in Hemsedal You know I love riding more than anything. Well, I'm just back from a week on the horseback in the mountains of Norway. Often, this means riding from cabin to cabin, but here we rode from mountain resort to mountain resort - got a bit spoiled [...]
Here, better late than never, is our monthly Instagram feature. As usual, I've linked to the photo on Instagram in the numbers. No less than five World Heritage sites are included this month, so let's get on with it. Here are the 11 most popular 'grams on Sophie's World [...]
At the southernmost tip of Norway is the mysterious ancient landscape of the Lista Peninsula, frequently hidden beneath a thin veil of ocean mist. I've spent many summers here, but a few months ago, I encountered the Lista landscape in late autumn: even more atmospheric then. Lista through [...]
