Kirkenes
Family Restaurant Review: Surf and Turf in Kirkenes, Norway | The Only Alternative to 7-11
Catherine - 2
During our entire eight day trip to Norway, we only ate at three restaurants for a total of three meals. Everything was either closed, insanely overpriced, or unappealing. That means we lived off of snacks and were starving the majority of the time. We devoured our meals on the Hurtigruten, and Pepe’s Pizza at the airport filled a very...
Kirkenes
Where Our Baby Caught Her Hair on Fire: Family Review of the Kirkenes Scandic Hotel in Norway
Catherine - 0
Nothing happened according to plan this trip to Norway. And I mean that in the most literal sense. When we arrived at the Scandic Hotel, chosen because of how often we’d seen it pop up in search results in Google and we just wanted a sure thing, it was early in the morning after our Hurtigruten cruise. We couldn’t...
Kirkenes
That One Time When I Got to Fly in the Cockpit | Scandinavian Airlines with a Family: We Are Travelers, Scandinavia, Europe
Catherine - 2
Scandinavian Airlines, SAS Airlines, flies throughout Denmark, Sweden and Norway to 1300 destinations all across Europe. Their slogan, “We Are Travelers” is fitting as Scandinavians travel an average of five times a year throughout the three countries listed above! It was also fitting for our particular family as we are not only travelers, but have Scandinavian ancestry. Everything comes...
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Visiting Kirkenes, Norway with a Family: The Easternmost Town in Scandinavia and Gateway to Russia | Land of No Food
Catherine - 0
We found ourselves in Kirkenes after debarking from our two night cruise on the Hurtigruten. Kirkenes is a tiny little town of only 3,000 inhabitants on just over 500 acres, and was upgraded from a village just 20 years ago! The peninsula is sandwiched between the Bøkfjorden fjord, and the Varangerfjord fjord that borders Russia, and the city is...