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Fjaerland

James Ireton | Editor

Published on 2025-07-04

Welcome to Fjaerland, a postcard-perfect dot on the map of Western Norway, blissfully sheltered by fjords that are so aggressively scenic you'll wonder if your eyeballs might pop. Sure, you've already cruised past a dozen postcard-worthy towns, but let's face it: any place known both as "the glacier village" and "the book town" is clearly doing something peculiar-and wonderfully right. It's here, in this quiet fjord-side hamlet, that literature has gone deliciously rogue, shamelessly colonizing barns, sheds, and even defunct bus shelters, filling every available nook with secondhand literary treasures. Spend a few leisurely hours browsing quirky bookshops for that rare Norwegian thriller or obscure cookbook you never knew you needed-then saunter over to the surprisingly fascinating Norwegian Glacier Museum, a place that'll have you impressing your friends back home with alarming statistics about ice melt and wooly mammoths. And while you're stretching legs cramped by sea-bound luxury, why not hike up toward the pristine Jostedalsbreen glacier viewpoint? After all, nothing puts your floating palace into better perspective than standing face-to-face with thousands of years of creeping ice.