(Post 4 of 6) Soloists get to wear the hard hats. This is Oddmund Rønning, head of the Liberal Democrats. […]
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(Post 4 of 6) Soloists get to wear the hard hats. This is Oddmund Rønning, head of the Liberal Democrats. […]
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(Post 5 of 6) It was a packed house at the concert. The abandoned coal packing hub was chilly, but […]
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(Post 6 of 6) The choir’s full story came out in the pub after the show. Between spontaneous bouts of […]
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(Post 1 of 5) Helge Hovland is the first person I met when I arrived in Longyearbyen. He was driving […]
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(Post 2 of 5) Haakon Sandvik grew up in Longyearbyen. His mom, Anne Lisa Sandvik, is known as “Mother Svalbard,” […]
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(Post 3 of 5) It would be impossible to profile Longyearbyen without talking about tourism, and we wondered what the […]
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(Post 4 of 5) Back on the trail of #meetthenorth (check previous posts) we attended a service at Svalbard Kirke […]
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(Post 5 of 5) The trail to Platåfjellet leaves from behind the church in Longyearbyen. It’s one of Pastor Leif’s […]
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Oh boy. We met lots of people today. So many that we are home at 1:30am and thinking about moving […]
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Some days . . . #meetthenorth is about northerners and northern life. Our goal is to get to know the […]
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