Norway

Norway invented the modern ski binding with iron lugs (1894), the gas turbine (1884), the cheese slicer and the paper clip.

Trøndelag is so full of history that some claim that only the book covers would be left if you took out everything about Trøndelag from the Norwegian history books.

The mining town of Røros is Norway’s only mountain city. Its about hundred timber houses are all on UNESCO's World Heritage List.

In Telemark the modern way of skiing originated, from a poor peasant named Sondre Norheim who grew up in the valley of Morgedal.

Norway actually has half of Europe's Atlantic coast.

Norway has 67,233 islands.

If the entire shoreline was stretched out, every fjord and island, the coastline would circle the equator one and a half times.

If Norways 4.5 million people were distributed evenly, about 10 people would have to share each square kilometre.

Stavanger boasts the largest area of old wooden houses in the whole of Europe.

Sognefjorden is the world’s longest fjord.

European Cruise Service has helped travellers experience the best of Norway since1850, when Thomas Bennett founded his famous travel agency.