I am strolling along the Bodo harbour quayside, gulping salty air while gazing in awe at spiky green islands and encircling granite peaks dusted with snow. It is simply world-class, the setting of this Folkestone-sized city sandwiched between mountains and sea just inside the Arctic Circle.When Bodo (pronounced ‘bow-dah’), together with the outlying Nordland County, was announced as a 2024 European Capital of Culture, there was bewilderment in Norway.The government had told the bidding committee not to bother applying and offered zero financial support. But the bigwigs in Oslo had reckoned without the Viking-esque feistiness of their go-it-alone compatriots way up north.
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