Question 1

Tipping in Norway

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A tip is not expected anywhere in Norway, since restaurant staff are well paid, but rounding up a bill is normal. Shops price in Norwegian kroner (NOK) and generally do not accept euros. Most diners round up at the table, and a tip of around 10 percent is seen as generous. Taxi tipping varies, so there is no rule to follow. A little cash helps if a guide does not take card payment.

Question 2

What Nesna Is Known For

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Nesna is known in Norway for teacher training and for the Nesnalobben, a felt slipper made in the village for almost 50 years. The college is now a campus of Nord University. The teacher training school that opened in 1918 became Nesna University College and, from 2016, part of Nord University. The Nesnalobben was made in Nesna from 1955 until production moved to Tartu, in Estonia, in 2003. Nesna Church is a white neo-Gothic wooden church on a cross plan, with the inner corners cut off to make an eight-sided center. It was consecrated on September 17, 1880. Zahlbrygga, a wharf in the village, was chosen as Nesna's millennium site.

Question 3

History

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Nesna has had a church since at least the 1500s, and its old church served as a polling station in Norway's first national election in 1814. In the 20th century the village grew around its teacher training school and the Zahl family's trading house. A bronze sword, Bronze Age: Sometime between about 1700 and 500 BC, a bronze sword was buried at Remmen, on the island of Tomma. The church, 1589: The church at Nesna is first recorded in 1589, though its altarpiece is dated to the 1470s. Petter Dass, 1680s: The poet and priest Petter Dass was chaplain at Nesna in the 1680s and became parish priest of Alstahaug in 1689. An election church, 1814: The church built in 1767 served as a polling place for the elections to the 1814 constitutional assembly. The schoolhouse, 1823: Klokkergården, built in 1823, is the oldest surviving permanent school building in Helgeland. A municipality, 1837: Nesna became a municipality when local self-government was introduced in 1837. A new church, 1880: A larger church was built about 50 meters south of the old one and consecrated in 1880, and the old church was then torn down. The Zahl store, 1907: The Zahl family traded from a store built in 1907 for most of the 20th century. The business closed in 2000, and the municipality bought the building in 2006 for the museum. Teacher training, 1918: A teacher training school opened in Nesna in 1918. The Nesnalobben, 1955: Production of the Nesnalobben felt slipper began in Nesna in 1955. To learn more ashore: Nesna Museum, at Havnevegen 1 in the Zahl family's old store, shows objects from trade, households, farming and fishing and has an exhibition on the Nesnalobben. It opens on Tuesdays and Thursdays and for events; check before you go.

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