Named a UNESCO World Heritage City in 1979 as well as the European City of Culture in 2000, Bergen has a lot to offer for the culturally-inclined and literary-minded. It is here that Henrik Ibsen worked as resident dramatist and…
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This year has so far been full of memorable escapades – first a trip to my family’s mountain cabin, then a work assignment in the Arctic, and now a winter meet in the Scandinavian Alps with the Women’s Alpine Adventure…
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Life in the Arctic has been a source of my curiosity for as long as I can remember. Growing up, I danced to the tune of Baby Beluga, enchanted with the white whale ‘in the deep blue sea’ of the…
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Looking back on twenty-nineteen, it seems that my year was split into near-perfect thirds… geographically speaking, that is. I spent the first-third backpacking around Southeast Asia, the next-third exploring my home country of Norway, and the last-third (re)visiting cities across…
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Christmas time in New York City is all sorts of merry. Between the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting and the 5th Avenue Window Displays, the Union Square Holiday Market and the Wollman Rink in Central Park, the Radio City Rockettes and the…
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A few weeks ago, I embarked upon an unforgettable train journey across the Great White North, from Vancouver to Montréal. During my four-day/four-night rail adventure, I covered over 5,000 kilometres by land, crossed four different time zones, travelled through six…
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It’s been a little while since I delved into my personal life on here, so today seems like a fitting day to do just that. I’m currently sitting in my top-floor apartment in downtown Vancouver – a perfect vantage point…
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Known as the cultural centre of the Québec province, Montréal is European in character with a generous dose of North American influence. It’s one of the largest francophone cities in the world as well as the second most populated city in Canada, not to…
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