Ice buildings.\u00a0 Norwegians seem to enjoy creating indoor venues that resemble the outdoors.\u00a0 And I don’t mean a nice summer day in the woods, I mean ice.\u00a0 This month Icebar, debuts in Oslo.\u00a0 Icebar offers a unique experience of Nordic winter in incredible ice surroundings.\u00a0 The walls, the furniture, the dishware, and even the art are made of ice from from the Torne River in Lapland, Sweden.\u00a0 In fact, it was in Jukkasj\u00e4rvi, Sweden that the concept was born with the world’s largest ice hotel.\u00a0 Icebar in Oslo is the third and largest\u00a0of it’s kind; there is an icebar in Copenhagen, Denmark and Tokyo, Japan.\u00a0 Icebar is brought to these countries by Icehotel, the Swedish company that in 1994 brought Absolut Icebar to Sweden (a perfect harmony between creativity and design and pure raw materials).<\/p>\n
Morten Thorvaldsen, CEO of Thon Hotels, is proud to be a joint partner with Icehotel to bring Icebar to Oslo.\u00a0 Thon Hotels is the 3rd largest hotel chain in Norway, and also provides accomodations for visitors to Sweden, Belgium, and Holland.\u00a0 I’ve stayed in one and it was very nice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So this Icebar in Oslo seems like it’s going to be really cool.\u00a0 The manager, Joachim Langebrekke Larsen, says that it is not the intention that one should “fryse rumpe av seg hele tiden<\/strong>” (freeze one’s *** off).\u00a0 It will of course be cold, but the idea is not to hang out in the ice room for a very long period of time.\u00a0\u00a0Camilla Gulsett, Thon representative,\u00a0recommends leaving your stillettos and and\u00a0skirts at home and dressing more warmly than if you are\u00a0going out to a vanlig utested <\/strong>(normal place to go out).\u00a0 But just in case you don’t dress warm enough or if you want to add to the experience, Icebar offers guests warm jackets and thick gloves (so that it’s not painful to hold your ice glasses).\u00a0 Icebar will also sell hats and other merchandise.\u00a0<\/p>\n On the menu,\u00a0there are cold alcoholic drinks, warm alcoholic drinks, and tapas to snack on.\u00a0 Instead of “on the rocks,” at Icebar, one says “in the rocks,” jokes Gulsett in\u00a0a recent Aftenposten online article about the new Icebar opening on Friday in Oslo.\u00a0 Here is the website if you want to test your Norwegian comprehension and see some neat bilder <\/strong>(pictures): http:\/\/oslopuls.aftenposten.no\/restaurant_uteliv\/article294169.ece<\/a><\/p>\n In addition to the new Icebar in Oslo, there are several ice hotels in Norway.\u00a0 There is the Kirkenes Snow Hotel (located in Kirkenes, close to the Russian border), which features a special dinner cooked over open fire, a husky farm nearby, a sauna, and a reindeer park.\u00a0 The Ice Lodge is another icy place to stay overnight.\u00a0 Lastly, the Sorrisniva Igloo Hotel in Alta is the world’s northernmost ice hotel.\u00a0 I haven’t been to any of these places, but I can’t wait.\u00a0 It sounds like such a fun experience!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ice buildings.\u00a0 Norwegians seem to enjoy creating indoor venues that resemble the outdoors.\u00a0 And I don’t mean a nice summer day in the woods, I mean ice.\u00a0 This month Icebar, debuts in Oslo.\u00a0 Icebar offers a unique experience of Nordic winter in incredible ice surroundings.\u00a0 The walls, the furniture, the dishware, and even the art…<\/p>\n