One of the first things I noticed about Norway when I was there earlier this month – after the brisk air, the clean streets, and the tall blondes (and taller blonds) striding along those streets – was the 19 hours of full daylight. Not quite “midnight sun,” but it never quite got dark. It was both bracing and perplexing to come out of a theater at 10:30 p.m. into brilliant sunshine.
