The booktown

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Fjærland is a tiny, ridiculously picturesque village in Norway. Resting in the shadow of a glacier, at the end of the Fjærlandsfjord, it is home to only 300 souls. That’s like a third of the population of my high school.

Fjærland is also a “booktown.” Almost every shop in the town sells books and, if you were to put all the bookshelves together, they would stretch for more than four kilometres. Here is a little video about it.

Fjærland – Norway’s book town from Fjord Norway on Vimeo.

Bucket list! Will you come with me?

(All images are screen-grabs, taken from the video above)

4 comments

  • Kristine

    I’d LOVE to come with you! I can be your translator as I was born & raised in Norge 😉
    I’ve been living in Oz for 13 years (& doesn’t look like I’ll be moving back any time soon), and I miss travelling around the Norwegian country side…

    …so just tell me when! 😀

  • Claire Armstrong

    Norway is the most beautiful country in the world. Its were the mountains meet the sea, its awesome or Kjempeflott the Norwegians would say. I was bought up in South East Asia but have been to Norway several times having married a Norwegian Geordie. I hadn’t heard of Fjaerland before though, so thank you. We will try and go to the town on our next visit to Bergen.

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