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Renting a car in Norway can be one of the best decisions you make for your trip. It can also be an expensive mistake.

Norway’s cities are easy enough to explore without a car, and many longer journeys work well by train, bus, ferry or domestic flight.

But once you want to explore fjord villages, mountain viewpoints, coastal ...


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If you are new to Norway, one of the more startling experiences can be the sudden sound of every mobile phone around you blaring at once.

The alert is loud, impossible to miss, and may be accompanied by outdoor sirens sounding across towns and cities.

Illustration.

For anyone not expecting it, the experience can be unsettling, especially if you're a fan...


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Norway’s long-debated Stad Ship Tunnel is set to go ahead after all, following a dramatic reversal in the country’s revised national budget negotiations.

The project, planned through the narrowest part of the Stad peninsula in western Norway, has been discussed for decades.

Illustration of Havila coastal ferry in Norway's proposed ship tunnel. Image: Kystverk...

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Low mountains, endless lakes, old pine forest, and one of Scandinavia’s most intact wilderness landscapes define Femundsmarka National Park. This is a place for water, silence, and slow travel.

Femundsmarka does not offer the Norway of cruise brochures and souvenir calendars.

Lake, forest and mountain views in Norway's Femundsmarka National Park.

There ...


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The mayors of two towns in southeast Norway have asked the government to consider new restrictions on where some refugees can move after being settled in the country.

Arne Sekkelsten, mayor of Fredrikstad, and Magnus Arnesen, mayor of neighbouring Sarpsborg, say their municipalities are under growing pressure because many refugees first settled elsewhere in Norway l...


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