• Norway & Scandinavia,  Traveling

    Fjords & Jazz: Explore Norway in 9 days

    23rd of June 1998. I first set foot on Norway exactly 20 years ago. This was the day that Norway beat Brazil in the World Cup. It was also the day that the critically-acclaimed music video for Madonna’s ‘Ray of Light’, directed by the Swedish Jonas Åkerlund, was released on VHS only to become the best-selling video singles of the Nielsen SoundScan era. It was almost midnight when I first watched the iconic video on MTV, high-speed images of Madonna dancing, whilst Norwegians were celebrating all over Oslo. Outside, there was still daylight.   Madonna’s iconic ‘Ray of Light’ directed by Jonas Åkerlund.   20 years on, I am still…