Kirkenes: The company town that became a Chinatown for five days
The town of Kirkenes, Norway is a little northern melting pot. It sits at the on the country’s Arctic edge,…
Northern lights to neon lights: Kirkenes to transform into polar Chinatown
Featured image: In February 2019, street signs in Kirkenes will temporarily go from bilingual to trilingual. Photo: Cryopolitics rendition. Sitting on…
With help from the internet, a Sámi school preserves reindeer herding
Featured image: A former Orthodox church in an old Sami village in Neiden/Njauddâm, Norway, just across the border from Finland. In my previous post, I wrote about how a Concorde…Continue Reading →