Some noteworthy Norwegian blogs

Norway is a small stretch of land, but there are a lot of blogs out there concerning themselves with our little country. And a lot of them are in English. Here is an overview of but a few that I think are worthy of a visit or two.

Photos from northern Norway features breathtakingly beautiful pictures from the northern region of Norway. The nature is in itself beautiful up there, and this photographer, Thomas Laupstad, really knows how to capture that beauty. Some of the pictures are also quite unusual and fascinating, like a closeup of a housefly or little sprouts coming up through the snow. Visit this site, and the next thing you'll do is to buy yourself a plane ticket to Norway.

RennyBA's Terella is another very noteworthy site. This was actually one of the finalists for best European blog on Weblogg Awards 2007. RennyBA blogs about anything Norwegian - culture, food, traditions, and history in a very personal manner. His site also contains a lot of great pictures.

Two blogs that I find appealing are South Africa and Becoming Imigrant. Both blogs are written by Norwegians living with their wives and family abroad - in South Africa and Brazil respectively. In South Africa, Jonny Stensby is blogging about anything and nothing, at times being very witty. Often he is on the philosophical side, reflecting upon life, existence, and basically anything else, from emigrant hairdressers to the possibility of calculating the existence of God. Becoming Imigrant is not as obviously funny, but it definitely got it's (mostly understated) humor. The blog is all about the author's life as an imigrant to a foreign country with his brazilian wife, "living in the energy where two cultures collide."