The Lofoten Islands are home to some of Norway’s most beautiful and colorful villages but none have my heart quite like Henningsvær, a village of just over 500 people. And this is a guide to the best things to do in Henningsvær, Norway (for first-timers). Having visited three times (in different seasons) and even ‘lived’ […]
I love taking good road trips in Norway and think the country has the best scenic routes in the world. In this guide, I will cover one of my favorites, the Norwegian Scenic Route spanning the Varanger Peninsula in Northern Norway. I’ve driven the Varanger scenic route a few times, and it honestly never gets […]
I have visited this part of the Varanger Peninsula twice, but on my first journey up there, it was covered in fog. Not just for a few hours, but days! It made a trip to Hamningberg kind of scary since I had never ventured out that way. So, on my last trip to Vardø, visiting […]
I have no real reason why I headed up to Muonio last autumn, to be honest. My partner had told me about a cool place called Polaris Villas that he saw on Instagram, and without even really looking to see where the property was, I booked a stay there. The pictures of Polaris Villas were […]
A place I have not written much about on this blog is the Varanger Peninsula (Varangerhalvøya) in Northern Norway, but I’m slowly getting there! This region is one of my favorites in the entire country and I do want to encourage more people to visit and trade out some of Norway’s most popular places for […]
I had a long list of things I wanted to do in Cape Town pending I ever made the journey there, so when I bought myself a plane ticket, I was happy to finally be able to turn some of those dreams into reality. And one of them was to take a Cape Malay cooking […]