Active Norway Tours

25/05/2025

We just finished our second knitting tour to Denmark and our second with the Gourmet Yarn Shop and it was even better this time. We visited Denmark's two most scenic islands, Fanø and Ærø and stayed 5 days in Copenhagen. Thanks to Christel Seyfarth, Hanne Kær Pedersen, Lisa Renner, Vivian Hoxbro and Åsa Tricosa for great workshops and talks. All photos by Orly Ben Ary

27/10/2024

Registration just opened for our 5th trip with Battenkill Textile Tours. This unique tour visits Sweden and Finland with stays in Stockholm, Dalecarlia and Helsinki as well as an ovenight Baltic cruise.

Join our favorite guide in Scandinavia, Andrew Hutter, as we experience historic sites and museums in the Old Town and new Stockholm, including a knitting class with Maria's Garn, before heading north to explore Dalecarlia region known for Carl Larsson birthplace, painted wooden horses, the Anders Z...

22/10/2024

Registration just opened for our fourth trip with the National Nordic Museum in Seattle. This journey takes us to Stockholm, Northern Finland and 6-day voyage along the Norwegian coast to Bergen.

Join the National Nordic Museum on an adventure to Sápmi, the cultural region in the Nordic north traditionally inhabited by the Sámi people, and a 6-day voyage along the Norwegian Coast with the MS Havila Castor. We end our tour in Bergen (NOR) where you’ll have the option to extend your tour w...

06/10/2024

Our 4th trip with Battenkill Textile Tours was the best yet. In this Norway only tour, we had workshops with Sidsel Høivik, the Hardanger Folk Museum and Hillesvåg Ull along with fantastic fjord scenery and a great stay at the Solstrand Hotel. We even had good weather in Bergen. We're busy working on next year's tour to Sweden and Finland.
Thanks to Jen Maitreya for the photos

08/09/2024

We just finished our second trip with the Seacoast Ski Club. This trip to Denmark and Norway was even better than the first, with lots of activities that most tour groups don't do, such as sightseeing and picnicking on electric boats in Copenhagen, taking the Flåm railway up and bicycling down, walking on bridges across the Hardanger Fjord and the Vøringsfoss gorge plus many other highlights.

10/07/2024

The theme for our recently completed third tour for the National Nordic Museum was Nordic Design. In addtion to stops in the cities of Copenhagen, Oslo, Gothenburg, Stockholm and Helsinki, we drove through the Swedish countryside to Älmhult, home of Ikea, and Kosta Boda to see art glass. The highlights are too many to list, but some photos by Terje Leiren and Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams will show a sample.

07/01/2024

Registration for our 4th knitting tour with Battenkill Textile Tours just opened up. This time we're visting Norway with 3 days in Oslo and 5 days at the Solstrand Hotel & Spa, situated on a fjord near Bergen. There will be 3 knitting workshops, sightseeing in Oslo and excursions in the scenic fjord country of Western Norway. More info at: https://www.wetravel.com/trips/scenic-norway-knitters-and-crafters-tour-battenkill-textile-tours-llc-bergen-63535706

15/12/2023

https://nordicmuseum.org/nordic-design-trip

Our third trip with the National Nordic Museum just opened up for bookings. This time the theme is Design.

Join the National Nordic Museum on a two-week exclusive Design and Architecture tour in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland! Immerse yourself in the heart of Nordic design and culture. Together, we'll visit design museums and explore some of the most important landmark buildings in the major Nordi...

28/11/2023

We finished our third knitting tour with Battenkill Textile Tours earlier this month. This time we stayed in Tallinn and Parnu in Estonia with excursions to Muhu and Haapsalu. In Lativa, we stayed in Riga. Lots of workshops, but also time for Spa treatments in Parnu. I was going to finally try my hand at knitting on this tour, but I couldn't figure out which needle was for the right hand and which was for the left.

Our next tour with Battenkill will be going to Norway from September, 26 to October 4, 2024. This time we'll first stay in Oslo and then 5 nights at the Solstrand Hotel and Spa near Bergen.

09/09/2023

We recently finished our second successful tour with the National Nordic Museum in Seattle. This time it was a deep dive into the history of the Vikings with stops at Thingvellir in Island, Gamla Uppsala and Birka in Sweden, the Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde and the Borre Mounds in Norway. With the museum's contacts, we were able to have leading scholars give talks in situ and have access to sites that are normally closed to the public. Accompanying the tour was Professor Terje Leiren who took most of the photos in this post

17/05/2023

Yet another knitting trip we've organized. This time with the Gourmet Yarn Shop in Norway. I really should have learned how to knit by now. Photos by Orly Klotsman BenAry, Gourmet Yarn Shop.