Musings on Life in Hong Kong

The Nobel Prize is, of course, the most prestigious award in a number of major fields such as physics, chemistry, medicine, literat...

Norway is the home of the Nobel Peace Prize.  It has been presented in Oslo since 1901.  The award ceremony is held in the Norwegian Parliam...

  Just hours away from Bergen by car and hidden in the mountains, there are fantastically green valleys with winding streams and no more th...

Bergen, on the west coast opening onto the North Sea, was the capital of Norway at one point.  Here there is a row of old wooden houses on ...

A foot of the Jostedal Glacier reaches almost all the way down to a fjord.  A small boat deposited us on the bank at a spot closest to the ...

The fjords of Norway are really beautiful.  They are long, narrow, and crooked.  They are bounded by soaring mountains, with streams of ro...

It is easy to like Norway.  There is a lot of open space, even in cities like Oslo and Bergen.  The people are polite.  The place is clean....