Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Journal 24 Oslo. Ålesund. Trondheim. A capital that found oil and decided to act like it didn’t, a town that lost everything in a fire and rebuilt itself as a work of art, and a medieval cathedral at the end of a pilgrim […]
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 72: Trondheim Trondheim is Norway’s third-largest city, sitting at the mouth of the Nidelva river on the Trondheimsfjord, approximately 500 kilometres north of Oslo and 300 kilometres north of Ålesund by road. The commune population is approximately 215,000, with the metropolitan
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 71: Ålesund Ålesund is a Norwegian coastal city on the western coast of Norway, sitting on three main islands (Aspøya, Nørvøya, and Hessa) and several smaller islands at the mouth of the Storfjord system. The commune population is approximately 66,000, with
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 70: Oslo Oslo is the capital of Norway, sitting at the head of the Oslofjord on the southeastern coast of the country. The commune population is approximately 720,000, with the metropolitan area approximately 1.1 million — substantially the largest urban region
Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Journal 23 Reykjavik. The Westfjords. Akureyri. A capital city powered by the planet’s own heat, a peninsula so remote that most Icelanders haven’t been there, and a northern town where the sun circled the sky and refused to leave. Iceland broke every rule
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 69: Akureyri Akureyri is the second-largest urban area in Iceland, sitting at the head of Eyjafjörður on the northern coast of the country. The population is approximately 20,000 — a fraction of Reykjavík’s 140,000 but substantial for a country of 400,000
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 68: The Westfjords The Westfjords (Vestfirðir, “West Fjords”) is one of the eight administrative regions of Iceland, occupying the large peninsula in the northwestern part of the country. The region covers approximately 22,000 square kilometres — 22% of Iceland’s total land
🌐 Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Episode 67: Reykjavik Reykjavík is the capital and largest city of Iceland. It sits on the southwestern coast at Faxa Bay (Faxaflói). It lies about 40 kilometers west of Thingvellir and about 50 kilometers from Keflavík International Airport. The commune population is
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Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Nordic & Western Europe Region 🪡 Journal 22 York. Edinburgh. Orkney. A city with two thousand years of dead underneath its streets, a capital that decided to invent the modern world, and islands where the stones were standing before the pyramids were planned. York grabbed me by the ankles.