The Stavdals

We are really thankful that our boys are finally getting two Finnish lessons a week at school. As you know, our kids are simultanious bilingual speakers of Norwgian and Finnish. Unfortunately, it took us several years to discover that people...

At the end of September, the sun suddenly broke through the clouds and set the orange leaves ablaze. I grabbed my SLR-camera and ran through the forest towards the sloping hillside a few hundred metres from our house where the...

Who could have imagined that we would be trudging through the snow before mid-October? This past week, heavy snow and chilly winds have been causing havoc in Northern Norway. Although the snow showers are dying out, ice on the...