@douglasvb I visited #Norway in September. Sailed on a Hurtigruten mail boat from #Kirkenes at the tippy-top of the country, down the stunning coast to #Bergen. With local ports of call and a couple of day-hikes. For most of the 3 weeks I was there, it was "Indian Summer" weather - unusual but locals were loving it. 50+ years of wisely state-invested oil & gas revenues have transformed the country's built and social #infrastructure. The egalitarianism of the #culture has echoes in #Minnesota
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Norwegian border town that for decades built its identity on east-west cross-border contacts and travel, #Kirkenes:

“Russia has become an authoritarian regime. Any contact on a municipal level is not possible anymore,” says Magnus Mæland, mayor of Sør-Varanger to the Barents Observer.

“It’s not in my interest to have this kind of contact with Russia, because it’s a security threat to the world.”

With #Hurtigruten 🇳🇴 over the northernmost section of the Norwegian mail ship route, from #Kirkenes to #Tromsø. I’m travelling on the #Nordnorge, a lovely ship built in the 1990s. Fascinating scenery here, way north of the Artic Circle, with temperatures just, just above freezing point.

@phgsng Yep! Kirkenes is as far east as Alexandria in Egypt.

(it's cheating a bit, since the longitudes are spaced closer together when you get closer to the poles, but still...)

But #Kirkenes still runs on Oslo time because anything else would be too confusing.

And heh... during winter you don't have any sun to worry about and during summer the sun is up all the time anyway... so... 🙂

Old cottage in Grense Jakobselv in northern Norway. This is barents land.

#old #cottage #house #building #decay #north #norway #visitnorway #kirkenes #grensejakobselv #borderlands