Contributor Kari Svenneby describes spending summer with kids in Norway
Norway!
One of the things that strikes me about Canada is how similar Norway and Canada are in both landscape and climates. It is as if someone left Canada in the dryer too long and made a woolen Norway shrink. The coastlines, the mountains and the breathtaking views of Norway are very similar to Canada. Even the similar climates, and our abilities to produce both oil and fish products seem to connect us. They have both traded the number 1 spot for best country to live in by the United Nations.
I live in Toronto now, but Norway will always be my home as well. Every year the kids and I try to visit my family in Fredrikstad in the summertime where we love to spend most of our time outside. After living abroad the one thing I miss the most is nature. Not because Norway has the most beautiful nature or more of it that in other countries, but because nature is so close to you wherever you are.
