Makes me homesick for Scandinavia.
Having never been to Norway, sir, I am trying to get a "grasp" on the REAL life of the people there.
I was working on a request from a member of the Norway ping list, to feature her town, when I got lonely for snow. It was 85 degrees here in Nebraska today, and that is about 45 degrees too hot for me.
(Yeah, yeah, I know; I'm in a distinct minority here--to each his own--a very tiny minuscule minority of people who actually like cold weather, and who sweat like a pig when the thermometer goes beyond.....50 degrees. It must be something genetic.
(My highest heating bill [natural gas, entire house, hot-water and stove also natural gas] this winter was.....$28. During the summers, I try to live in a beer cooler, whenever possible.
(Naturally, being so naturally and genetically "cold," there are sometimes, uh, problems with, uh, women, but as every male has "problems" with women, I am not too embarrassed to mention mine.)
So then I looked up "Berlevag;" despite this being one of the northernmost towns in Norway (about equivalent on the globe with the charming Gamvik; or, on the other side of the same globe, way far north of northernmost Alaska), there was alas little snow in those photographs.
But looking at Berlevag was so interesting I decided to feature it tomorrow (Sunday), bumping that one request back a day.
Berlevag is surely the jewel of Norway; surely there cannot be any place in Norway more delightful than Berlevag--but I will let members of Norway ping list determine that.