Located on the edge of the beautiful Oslo Fjord, the Thief is an art enthusiast’s paradise. The hotel offers a uniquely luxurious experience for business travellers

Basic Hotels, based in Bergen, Norway is making a name for itself as an innovative budget accommodation provider, giving guests the essentials they actually need and the high quality they deserve

The perfect place to combine business and pleasure – though it covers one of the largest areas of any capital city in the world, a low population density, parklands and forests aplenty makes it one of Europe’s most pleasant cities. Julianna Barnaby reports

Classical meets contemporary, crystal waters meet verdant forests, resplendent nature meets cultured urban chic; Oslo is a city of beautifully captured contradictions that rarely fail to charm. In pure geographical terms, this is a vast metropolis; the wider urban area is about the size of Cyprus or Puerto Rico. But this simply reflects a Norwegian […]

At the end of the last ice age, as polar caps retreated, the Sami were so enamoured with the ice that they followed it all the way north and still dwell there today, in the Sápmi region of Scandinavia. The haunting spirituality with which the wilderness affects the populace should not be underestimated; to understand […]

The winding terraces of white and ochre can be be viewed from well outside the harbour, like scatterings of autumn leaves amid a green and golden forest, draped across seven hills and seven fjords. Welcome to Bergen; Norway’s most beautiful city. This was once Norway’s capital and remains an important cultural centre as well as […]