06 August 2011 - Enige og troe, indtil Dovre falder

What is it with Norway this summer!!  I mean, before I came here, the last time anyone had heard from the Norwegians, some Viking ship had landed in Scotland... and within a month some nutter has bombed the capitol, shot up an island of school kids and now some mad arsed polar bear has gone round munching on some Brits up in the north!... Seriously, I had to look on a map when I got this job, just to see exactly where Norway was... Yeah we all know its in Scandinavia to the right of Britain somewhere, but to be fair I wasn't sure exactly where!

The Norwegians don't go around making much of a song and dance about anything, they just get on with their lives and live in peace. We see an occasional Norwegian emblem when the European cup starts but thats normally short lived, no disrespect, quite the opposite in fact, the Norwegians are a lovely bunch of people who, although are involved in the UN and other peace keeping forces, don't shout about it like the Americans or the British, hence we don't hear from them much. But over the last few weeks they seem to have been dominating the headlines.

I think it must be down to the demise of 'The News Of The World'.... With them gone, all the celeb's in Britain have been let off the hook and normal news is being reported instead. Whatever the reasoning, lets hope that the saying 'Things Always Come In Three's' is true and Norway has had its share of tragedy and bad luck for the next 100 years.

As the Norwegians would say "Enige og troe, indtil Dovre falder"  -  United until the mountains of Dovre crumble.

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