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Norway is an expensive country. Prizes are high and wages are high, and because of the high wages more and more of our traditional industry has moved out of the country.
When farfar was a young man he worked as a carpenter. There were many small furniture factories at Moi, and for years they all flourished.
Now they are all gone. What is left is NorDan, a factory making windows.
There is one exception though,
Eik Treskofabrikk, a small privat owned factory where they make clogs.
Farfar buys materials from Eik Treskofabrikk for his carpentry, and one day we drove up to Eik to buy Finish birch for a table farfar is going to make for Ingrid and Marius (90 years of age and a recent stay in hospital never stop my father in law.......)
Terje and I drove hime there.
I fell for the place, the owner understood my fascination and showed me around, allowing me to use my camera......
.....and some time later I left, as the proud owner of new clogs with real cow skin!
