Norway, eh!

I am now official, I have the visa to say that I can stay here for the next three years. Now all the paper work is in place I am planning my escape and it can't come fast enough for me. The winter is endless. Oh here comes the snow blower again. I tell you I am sick of Norway already, the boredom is mind boggling!

Okay some of my relatives are Norwegian, I ask them what they do in the winter and apart from going for holidays in the sun the answer is "very little". Norwegians shop, they are really good at it, gazing for hours at table settings and making purchases of just the right colour shape and style of items for their dining room tables, it is anal, and why? Because there is nothing else to do!!

There are ski tracks all over the place set by "who knows" but they run for ever and it is beautiful out there. I have been on them two or three times a week since I discovered them and who else uses them? Well I see the same few people from our neighborhood time and time again unless it is a sunny day and then everyone else comes trooping out for an hour or so. Don't believe it when you are told that Norwegians are fit. They used to be perhaps but now they are like fat cats, content lazy and living on the reputation of having been a fit nation once.

Yeah, Norway has a lot to offer, safety, solid houses, fairytale scenery but it is all on the surface, there is no depth here. There is no fun found in socializing and don't ever believe they are not prejudiced here, just scratch the veneer and you will find that most would like to keep Norway for the Norwegians and the rest can go to........

I have an interesting booklet called "Welcome to Norway". In it the phrase "enjoying the good life" crops up frequently along with instructions on how you are expected to do this. It could be the way things are written here but the whole booklet reads like a "now you will obey" handout and well shit, it just makes me want to rebel just reading it!