Norway had a Christian party as part of parliament in the late 90’s and early 00’s, so that couldn’t happen here. Can’t buy alcohol up to 4,7% before 9 or after 20 at the grocery. Anything harder can only be bought from the state regulated monopoly from 10-18 on weekdays, 10-16 on Saturday’s.
Also, if you want to have beer over the Easter weekend, you’d better stock up early. I found out the hard way that Norway takes Easter much more seriously than anyone else earlier this year. Wednesday night, I was thinking about stocking up at the Kiwi next to my hotel for food and drink for the rest of my stay, but thought, “Nah, I’ll go first thing in the morning.” And that’s how I learned the entire city of Oslo basically shuts down from the Thursday before Easter all the way through Sunday. I think there was a 4 hour window on Saturday to hit up Vinmonopolet and grab the rest of your food and beer from the larger shops, and otherwise you were at the mercy of restaurant prices.
I used to think this was the norm everywhere as I live in a very conservative state in Mexico, but I once was visiting monterrey and we were partying until like 4am and then went to a convenience store for more buzz at around 5am or so.
My mind was suddenly opened. And I didn’t even drink.
Norway had a Christian party as part of parliament in the late 90’s and early 00’s, so that couldn’t happen here. Can’t buy alcohol up to 4,7% before 9 or after 20 at the grocery. Anything harder can only be bought from the state regulated monopoly from 10-18 on weekdays, 10-16 on Saturday’s.
Also, if you want to have beer over the Easter weekend, you’d better stock up early. I found out the hard way that Norway takes Easter much more seriously than anyone else earlier this year. Wednesday night, I was thinking about stocking up at the Kiwi next to my hotel for food and drink for the rest of my stay, but thought, “Nah, I’ll go first thing in the morning.” And that’s how I learned the entire city of Oslo basically shuts down from the Thursday before Easter all the way through Sunday. I think there was a 4 hour window on Saturday to hit up Vinmonopolet and grab the rest of your food and beer from the larger shops, and otherwise you were at the mercy of restaurant prices.
Yeah, what you don’t get by Wednesday, you’d have to be quick on Saturday to get, or spend your entire budget in a bar.
I used to think this was the norm everywhere as I live in a very conservative state in Mexico, but I once was visiting monterrey and we were partying until like 4am and then went to a convenience store for more buzz at around 5am or so.
My mind was suddenly opened. And I didn’t even drink.