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Shadrach -> RE: NordKapp (1/1/2018 7:26:20 PM)
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For sure, alcohol is expensive, mostly due to high taxes on the sale - because we don't want to end up like Russia in terms of consumption - partly because of generally high salaries. Sale of alcohol higher than 5 percent is limited to the state monopoly, but there's been talk of allowing sale of wine under 10 percent in shops.
Having a 0.5l of beer out on town in Oslo can easily cost you around $10, but there are always cheaper places. The micro-breweries are great but obviously also very expensive. There are cheap beer-places on the 'bad' side of town though, I like those.
Hey if you come to Norway, be sure to go in summer - but you will still probably be cold and wet most of the time [:'(]
And if you're looking for war history, go to Tromsø, Narvik, Rjukan (site of the famous heavy water mission). Maybe cross over into Russia (if you dare) and see the battle sites. Or get a car, drive over the mountains, to see the fjords in your own time and not be herded about like sheep to the souvenir shops.
But yeah... expensive for tourists. I have a suspicion tourists say Norway is "Beautiful, Lovely, Wunderschön" is because they don't want to admit they paid so much money to be cold, wet and miserable, just to watch a bunch of mountains covered in fog... [:)]
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