You're all welcome and at this point, I think, we are off to Australia for two weeks to become reacquainted with my criminal ancestors as well as some current upstanding relations, including a cousin who lived with us for 6 months in Norway in 1960.
Stan: Tromsø is known as the "Paris of the North". Besides sending your daughter there, you should visit it yourself. I'd recommend flying or training to Bodø (great aviation museum at the airport), then take the ferry (3-4 hours) out to Å i Lofoten; from there you'll spend at least 3-4 days island hopping by bridge & ferry until you reach Tromsø. After a couple days in Tromsø, you can drive north to North Cape (~ 2 days, skip the detour to Hammerfest, it's not worth it) or south back to Bodø through Alta on E6. You'll see a part of Norway we never saw from Oslo.
Do not eat at
Lil Buddha (Little Buddha) Chinese restaurant in Tromsø. They were caught recycling unconsumed rice & pop a few years ago. Yes, we ate there & I just about died a year later when I read about their problems with the health authorities.
There is a book called "I was a Teenage Norwegian" about an American exchange student in the Tromsø area in (I think) the 1960's. It's out of print, but I didn't know that when I saw a pile of them in a Tromsø bookstore but decided to defer any unnecessary purchases because my credit card company kept disabling my card. Used copies can be purchased from
Amazon.com.
As far as your daughter is concerned, make sure she has lots of
penger. Their economy is very inflated (Norwegians complain, too, but it's not really so bad for them because their wages are also inflated), but it can be painful for foreigners, especially if you're converting from dollars.
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