
One of my father's closest colleagues worked at the University of Tromso, and he travelled there a couple of times to help teach some classes. He came back with some horror stories about food (breakfast in particular). His grad student can't even hear the word "lutefisk" without getting nauseous (incidentally, he is the one who coined the phrase "i'm gonna lutefisk my volvo.")
Edit: BTW, I heard that the traffic laws are pretty draconian in Norway; how do you deal?