Hi Roger, thoroughly enjoyed your story. My Wife and I moved to Norway from London in 2017 and have been living in Østfold ever since. I am South African British (born and raised in South Africa from English descent) and my wife is From Finland. Recently we have been looking at getting a cabin up in the mountains and your story has been a great encouragement to do so. Appreciated what you shared, really sense the human connections made over all those years. Wonderful

Any advice on the comment above would be very welcome. Norway is such a stunning country. Your website is a really goood find for us.

Takk

Hei Alan,

My Husband and I both have Scandi ancestory, from a long time ago and have a long standing love of Norway. We have visited around 3 times over the last few years and are now chasing the Hytte dream as a holiday home. So far we have tried to make contact with local estate agents by email and have not had any replies, I did translate these emails into Norwegian too. How did you go about your purchase? We have looked on Finn.no but this requires a bank ID to bid. We are due back to Norway in July/August on a 12 day cruise and are hoping that visiting estate agents will have the desired effect. I am currently learning Norwegian, but I’m slightly worried about my ability to hold a full conversation. Any tips would be amazing. Takk

Thanks so much and best wishes for the relocation!

Love this website.

In 2011 at the 50 year point I wrote a small book about some of our times there. A few years later, this was turned in to an enlarged version as a video, which if you are interested to see it, can be viewed on Youtube at . This covered another 10 years to the 60 point. Whether we can make 70 years, we will have to wait and see, but you never know!

Mvh

From 2001 we owned a hytte in Lindesnes kommune for 10 years. It was in a fabulous location high up and overlooking the fjord. We got to know all the neighbours and made many good friends. We had to sell the hytte due to personal circumstances but wish that we had retained it.

The times that we spent in our hytte we rate as some of the best times of our lives. We still visit Norway every year and rate it as the best country in the world.

med vennelig hilsen,

I think because we need a large cabin, sleeping often 12 or more, this limits the available cabins to the ‘posh’ ones, hence the super standard and locations.

We hope to continue doing this and although we do pay eye watering amounts for this week, divided up between more families it’s manageable AND when compared to actually owning a cabin and all the work that entails, I think this is a good deal, we get to stay in different places and it works great for us.