Norway is a peculiar place where past and future merge with nature.  People love the peace of living away, and as you travel by you get spectacular sights and ever so often you'll see a small house in the middle of nowhere sorrounded by mountains and trees, and even snow eventhough it is summer.   The past is quite important, and you can submerge yourself in it in a museum where you get to see houses of old, smell and even taste sweat bread, and eat treats while you visit an old orthodontist.  But the future is just around the corner and the new opera house is the best proof, as you walk closer to the coast you see a building built in white marble, floating on the sea like an iceberg.  An imponet example of what Norway is, a love for the past, looking towards the future, but never forgetting mother nature.