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Article: Travel: Norway: Wave goodbye to the crowds
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- May 17, 2003
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It is an embarrassing admission to make that, entering my second
half-century, I have never, until now, set foot on the soil of our
closest cultural and genetic relation, Norway, and I am intrigued by
both where this warm and welcoming race take their vacations and how
they react to a migrant Scotsman out of season, a sight as rare as
Monty Python's famed Norwegian Blue parrot.
The answers are, first, that they head to the Sorlandet
(Southland) region of southern Norway and, second, that Norwegians
turn out to be excellent, welcoming hosts.
Norwegians have the destinations, and, one suspects, the national
pride to stay closer to home than we Scots, and the largely
unheralded Sorlandet ...