Tag: norway

Finding my way around Norway

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Sometimes you just need a good book and everything in one place. Before I head on any trip, I like to make sure of a few things – how to get from the airport or station into town and to the hotel, where the major points of interest for the tip are; how much is breakfast going to cost me; public transport and other little niggly things. Now it is possible to go online and find out all of this given time (and the airport links are usually on the Wikipedia page of said Airport), but instead of offering to

How To Get Tickets For the Eurovision Song Contest

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A question I’ve asked by a few people over the last week or so is “how can I get to next year’s Eurovision Song Contest?” Some of them have been above board, some have come in quiet back channels where their love of Eurovision can’t be traced back to them (you know who you are!) but it’s cropped up enough times that the best place for me to answer this is in a blog post. In almost every case I would recommend you join the Official Eurovision Fan Club that has branches around the world, The Organisation Generale des Amateurs

Report on the Eurovision 2009 Final

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This went up on The Stage’s website this afternoon, my thoughts on the results of the Eurovision Song Contest: Not only did Rybak win, but he won in style. Scoring a massive 387 points, he smashed through the previous highest points scored record of 298 points, which belonged to Finnish Rockers Lordi in the 2006 competition. There will be a lot of Eurovision fans happy they don’t need to see Lordi mentioned as the highest scoring song ever now. It’s not quite the greatest song ever, though. Adjusting scores to take account of total points available each year, it’s beaten