I found it interesting that he was wearing what he was, considering he isn't a member of the royal family. Did he serve? Is he just being extra? On top of that, who I'm assuming is Sverre Magnus to his left, doesn't even have any. Though he's young so that could be why?. Him and the woman who I presume is a grandmother of his on the far left, are the only ones not wearing something of that nature, why is that?

Hello, I'm an exchange student here in Oslo. I found this weird outlet in the hallway of my student dorm. Does anyone know what is it or was used for?

I saw him on NRK1 sports programme last night and really want to know more of him. Anyone knows his name or ins etc.?

It's only the three of us and we bought a large piece (one of the few left), so we bravely ate it for three days (I served them with potato lefse, braised red cabbage and beer sauce) but still a huge piece left. I used some today for egg fried rice (just cut the meat and made a very basic fried rice with 5 spices seasoning and soy sauce and I also cut the skin from the top and refried it briefly again - it's an addictive snack). Any other ideas except for the classical sandwiches?

We are going to Norway in January, mainly staying near Rjukan. Is this far enough north to also have a fair chance of seeing the northern lights? Or should we plan a few days even further north? What apps would you recommend? Thank you.

Hello friends from the icy fjords!

So I’m British and more into British humour and TV than American usually. I’ve fallen in love with beforeigners and noticed that the humour in that and lillehammer is very dry and was wondering if that’s Norwegian humour in general and if so, could anyone recommend any other shows I could find with subs?

Tak!

PS also I love whispers of a machine (video game) and hunting warhead (podcast) so Norway is really winning my media heart lol

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In this community, it is customary to admire Norwegian quality, service and everything Norwegian in general. At the risk of being trampled, I will nevertheless risk breaking tradition and add a little criticism here.

Let me say right away - I am not Norwegian. All my life I have heard admiring reviews about trips along the Norwegian fjords and the highest quality of service on Norwegian cruise ships.

My experience contradicts this mythology.

Almost 2 months have passed since I bought a ticket for a cruise ship traveling from Kirkenes to Bergen, but only now I calmed down a little and was able to force myself to describe this trip - I did not want to remember and relive all this again.

After several years of living in the north of Norway, it was time to move to live further south. I needed to go to Bergen. Due to the fact that I was burdened with a car and some oversized personal belongings, I had only two ways to get to Bergen - by road and by sea. I chose the second way, as safer, and as it seemed to me - more comfortable. For the sea trip, I chose the company "Havila", which for an additional fee offered a car transportation service. The advertisement promised an exciting week-long sea voyage on the cruise ship "Havila Capella" - with fjords, the polar lights, amazing cuisine, comfortable cabins, with blackjack and whores©... but my trip ended before it even began!

The day before the ship arrived in the port of Kirkenes, I received a message that the ship "Havila Capella" would not arrive in the port due to adverse weather conditions and I was offered to get to the port of Tromsø (where the ship had stopped) by plane on my own. The price of the plane ticket would be compensated. The car, obviously, was offered to me to take on the plane, as hand luggage. Or catch up with our ship on your own by car, they said (~800 km from Kirkenes). No compensation for the cost of gasoline, toll roads, food, no apologies for the inconvenience, no offers of an alternative - screw you, it's your problem.

After long negotiations with their call center, I was finally offered an alternative - to change the ticket to the next ship, which was supposed to arrive in the port of Kirkenes a few days later. Again - no apologies for lost time, nerves, money - I had to move out of my apartment on the day of departure of "Capella" and I needed somewhere to live until the next ship arrived - "Polux".

But I was glad that the trip was not cancelled, and the ticket for "Polux" was even cheaper by 2 thousand NOK (which I still have not received back).

Because the operator of the Havila company changed my ticket inside the system, they did not send me a boarding pass, but assured me that the ship knew about this situation and would meet me, register me and everything will be fine.

Of course, nothing fine happened.

On the ship, at the check-in counter, in front of a large line of normal passengers with boarding passes, I humiliatingly tried to explain my situation, and the manager looked at me as if I was a person who was trying to fraudulently get on the ship without a ticket, and with a car at that. It was impossible to get through to the call center - the operator who knew about my situation was busy, and other operators did not understand what I wanted from them.

It's good that I arrived at the port a few hours before the end of boarding - I had to prove for several hours that I was not a camel. When everything became clear, they didn't even apologize to me again, but with an arrogant look offered to pay extra for a cabin of a higher class, if I wanted (as I found out later - different passengers are offered to pay different amounts for the same cabins).

I put the car in the ship's hold. I was ordered to give the keys to the workers. Of course, no one took responsibility for the safety of things and the car itself, but they made it clear to me that I had no choice.

Over several years of living in Norway, I have become somewhat accustomed to the lack of feedback from any institution, company or person. I have become accustomed to the total incompetence and irresponsibility of responsible persons and, of course, I have become accustomed to arrogance and haughtiness. But such a concentration of all of the above as on this ship - I have never seen in my life!

The journey itself turned out to be dull and boring. Fjords are almost invisible in November - most of the time the ship moves in the dark, and during the day there is usually fog. The auroras are also not visible due to constant low cloud cover. The only entertainment on the ship is a TV in the cabin and alcohol in the bar at astronomical prices. Your own alcohol, bought on the shore, is prohibited on board. Most of the passengers are Germans of retirement age. As one of the ship's workers told me, these are "last voyage" cruises, every day we take out passengers either with a heart attack or in a plastic bag. The smell of urine is the first thing you smell when you get on the ship. Then this smell gradually disappears, but after you leave the ship during a stopover and then return, you smell urine again.

The stops are short, because the ship does not adhere to the schedule and arrive at the destination port an hour or more late. But the money for the excursions sold to passengers is not returned - they prefer to shorten the duration of the excursions themselves. For some reason, excursions are always scheduled for the time when there should be lunch - I wonder why? Oh yes, I remembered - lunch and its cost are not compensated to excursion participants according to the rules. However, excursionists do not lose much - there is little food and it is tasteless.

The food on this ship generally deserves a separate article in the British Encyclopedia. The idea of ​​​​the way passengers are fed, probably looked good in the project, but at some point, due to the above-mentioned reasons - incompetence, irresponsibility, arrogance and lack of feedback - everything went wrong.

Instead of a restaurant with waiters and a large selection of dishes in a beautifully designed menu, instead of haute cuisine and all the rest of the "Luxury" that "Havila" claims - for your money you get a queue, fuss, confusion, constant waiting for a waiter, a menu with names of dishes that do not correspond to their content, without pictures and photos. The food itself, as I already said - the dishes are small and tasteless. Separately, it is worth noting the unclear rules - what are for money, and what is included in the prepaid meal package? And as a result - after lunch a surprise from the chef ... in the form of a bill for a large amount.

If you become a passenger of "Havila" – get ready for big expenses. In addition to the super high prices for everything, you will also pay for things you did not order – for example, in the bar they added two extra mugs of beer to my bill (+300 NOK). I only noticed this because I wanted to pay in cash. If I had paid by card – I would not have even known about it. Of course, again no apologies – the manager of the cruise ship “Havila Kastor” made a scandal that I did not want to pay for my order. When I asked to provide a recording from the CCTV camera, which is located in the bar – it suddenly turned out that this camera is not working - oops, what a surprise! And when I suggested calling the police to sort out the situation - the case was quickly closed! Cruise manager, who had just been shouting, insulting me and grabbing my clothes - very quickly crawled under a snag and was lost.

An attentive reader may have noticed that I have already moved to another ship – that’s right! I never made it to Bergen on the «Havila Polux» – my car was simply put on the shore, and I was asked to leave the ship.

If the article seems interesting to Reddit readers, I will write a continuation and how it all ended.

If the Reddit administrators have any doubts about this article being an order from unscrupulous competitors of the Havila company – I am ready to confirm my identity and provide evidence of my stay on board the ships of the above-mentioned company.

What should one really consider/know about before making such a purchase(getting a loan)? Especially when not sure if one will stay in Norway for more than 6 years.

Having a debt for the rest of one's life seems pretty daunting. At the same time, everyone is just trying to get their first home ASAP argumenting it with "even if I leave Norway, I can sell it and have some extra cash". Am I missing something? Does real estate appreciate this fast in Norway? Also, wouldn't one still lose because of interest?

Hello to the people capable of speaking this beautiful language!

I am looking for a nice sounding name for our voice-piano duo. Since one of the pieces we just recorded is by Grieg - Det Syng from the cycle Haugtussa (text by Arne Garborg) I was inspired by this line:
"då Draumen slær ut sine Vengjer"

I find the idea of a name/saying that translates to something along the lines of "(two) wings" very meaningful - it's a metaphor for two people that can only "fly" by working together and both are equally important. Bonus points: in german wing (Flügel) is the name of a grand piano, and there are many sayings about the wings of song/music carrying you away...

I'd love your suggestions, also if they are only thematically related! My only requirement for our future name is: it should be easy to spell internationally (meaning only letters in the english alphabet) and in the best case should be easy to pronounce in different languages or/and sound nice in different pronunciations.

I'd also love if it actually made grammatical sense in the chosen type of Norwegian and if it isn't just one word. "Duo Vengjer" for example might just be a bit vague and would probably not have very favorable metrics when googled, not to mention it might be easy to confuse with other similar names... but depending on your suggestions this might not be that much of an issue!

Thank you in advance for any ideas and suggestions, I'm looking forward to them!

Hey all,

In a couple of days, I’ll be moving to Norway for six months as a french student doing an Erasmus. Sadly, in France, I didn’t find the time to purchase a camera on a used marketplace called MPB. So, I want to purchase it when I’ll be in Norway and make my future camera delivered in Bergen.

Since I’m not a permanent resident, what are the rules regarding VAT in my case? Will I pay VAT twice (one time on MPB, and a second time when the item will arrive in Norway)? What should I do?

Thanks in advance!

Hey guys, I'm quite new here and wondering what is the best Norwegian, accounting app or software something simple and not too cumbersome I tried fiken but I had some issues with it so it wasn't very straightforward things. Are there anything out there that could help and if not what are they missing or lacking so I can know ahead of time thank you.

Hi everyone!

I wanted to ask you if anyone here has employers using this app to punch in/out. I was told they are not allowed to have access to my location as it would be considered surveillance, therefore illegal. While idk if this is actually true, it does make me uncomfortable to have an app which other ppl control to have access to my precise location.

My understanding is, that we can use the app to punch in/out which does facilitate a lot, but not with access to the location.

Is anyone aware of how this really works and what’s allowed or not?

This is a bit of a weird gripe, but I have purchased multiple different pieces of electronics that say they charge with USB-C, but they really only charge on USB-A connectors (old USB port). One was a fancy wireless undercabinet light from OBS, another was a kids glowing magical diamond from Dyreparken, a third was a USB computer light. The USB-C standard requires the port not have the the electrical pin hot, but none of these electronics follow the standard and use 5k1 resistors so that they actually charge on a USB-C plug.

Has anyone else purchased electronics here that say they charge on USB-C (because of the EC/EU requirement?) but actually only charge if plugged into USB-A (with a C-to-A cable (pictured))

So me and some bodies wanted to try wax pens but we don’t know where to get some

Close to stord btw

So, Scandinavia as a whole are very progressive and democratic. Why support monarchy then? It's seems very weird.

You are basically paying a few select people millions of your tax payer money so they can live lavish lifestyles all on your expense.

I get that one of the reasons people state is that a presidents cost money too but you can't compare it like that. Monarchs are indeed more expensive. You don't have to pay salaries to a presidents entire family for a start.

Then there are the ethics. They are just born into it and did not work for it like a politician would have had to do.

What are you Norwegians thinking about all this? Why do you support it (if you do)? :)

Hi Norwegians!

Had a great time skiing at Skimore Oslo with great instructors.

Pretty much as the topic says: I’ll be in Oslo tomorrow and Saturday and would like to bring back some typical Norwegian food stuffs, spices and other things you think are of interest. I am from the Netherlands.

Specific recommendations as to packaged items and where to find them would be great. I will be bringing some fullkorn polarbrod for myself. Doesn’t have to be super special, just Norwegian and able to put it in cargo. When googling I’m seeing things like Sild, smoked salmon and brunost, but it would be helpful to know which brand and where to find it.

Thanks for a lovely Christmas holiday so far!

Or I have to scan through each and every political party website? It can be in norwegian also, will use google translate :)