Question 1

Tipping in Norway

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Norwegian restaurant staff are well paid, so tips are not expected, and rounding up the bill is normal. Prices are in Norwegian kroner (NOK); euros are generally not accepted in shops. In a restaurant, a tip of around 10 percent is seen as generous, and rounding up is the usual habit. Practice with taxi drivers varies, and tipping is optional. Cash can be handy for tipping a guide where cards are not taken.

Question 2

What Kjøllefjord Is Known For

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Fishing is Kjøllefjord's mainstay, and the village is one of the largest fishing villages in Finnmark. Near the mouth of the fjord stands Finnkirka, a sea cliff named for its church-like spires. Finnkirka inspired the municipal coat of arms. It is believed to have been a Sami sacrificial site, and seafarers still use it as a landmark. Kjøllefjord Church, built in 1951 of local stone and whitewashed, was designed by the architect Finn Bryn. Its ceiling painting by Carsten Lien shows fishing nets, stars and the outline of a ship. Foldalbruket, a fish plant that closed in 1983, has five buildings protected since 1994 and is now a museum of work at the plant and post-war fishing. Oksvågskogen, east of the village, is the world's northernmost birch forest. Kinnarodden, on the north side of the peninsula, is the northernmost point of mainland Europe. The Chrisfestivalen music festival is held every summer in late June, named after the blues musician Kris Lyngedal, who came from Kjøllefjord.

Question 3

History

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Kjøllefjord has been a trading place since at least the 1500s, serving merchants from Bergen and Russian traders along the coast. Burned by retreating German troops in 1944, it was rebuilt after the war and grew into one of Finnmark's main fishing villages. Trade, 1500s: Trade has been carried on at Kjøllefjord since at least the 16th century. A widow in trade, 1685: When the county governor Hans H. Lilienskiold toured the Finnmark coast in 1685, he found a widow trading at Kjøllefjord on her own account, alongside three men trading for merchants in Bergen. A trading district, 1690: When Finnmark was divided into seven trading districts in 1690, one of them was Omgang and Kjøllefjord, which traded with the Sami of Laksefjord and Tana. In a novel: Jonas Lie's novel Tremasteren Fremtiden portrays Kjøllefjord in the monopoly era as a busy storehouse and harbor, visited by ships from Bergen and Denmark and by Russian traders. Burned, 1944: In the autumn of 1944 German soldiers set the village on fire, and its roughly 700 residents were evacuated and scattered across the country. Most came back after the liberation in 1945. A gift from Denmark, 1951: A Danish collection begun in 1947 paid for two thanksgiving churches, one in Salla in Finland and one in Kjøllefjord, to replace churches burned in the war. The church in Kjøllefjord was completed in 1951. Fish in the 1950s: From 1950 to 1952, fishermen landed an average of 12,690 tonnes of fish a year, mostly pollock, cod and herring, and in 1954 the fleet numbered 155 boats. The fish plant closes, 1983: Foldalbruket closed in 1983, and its first museum exhibition opened in 2005. The road, 1989: A road finally connected Kjøllefjord with the rest of Norway in 1989.

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