Hehehe ah yeah the duck & cover was quite silly. Norway doesn't have single large bunkers like Finland, but there are over 20 000 bunker/bomb shelters scattered around Norway.

We had a bunker close to my house where I grew up which we liked to go over to as kids and speculate about what might be inside or how we could go inside.

My elementary school also had a bunker. I remember the heavy steel door.

Even where I live today there are a couple of bomb shelters nearby. They are not particularly well maintained today.

We never praticed going into bunkers though. There was air raid alarms though every couple of months or so to pratice. But we didn't do anything. It was just to get used to the sound.

Yeah us Nordics are a bit Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde when it comes to alcohol. I was so embarrassed while on a training course in France. We are usually well behaved but as you say when we get drinking things go awry. People started throwing each other into the pool, plants, wine bottles and what not ended up in the pool. The French hotel manager was furious an voved to never have any Norwegians ever at his hotel again.

There is a reason we have a government run liquor monopoly and high taxes on alcohol. Drunkeness was a big problem in the early 1900s. Wives had to snatch the paycheck (I guess it was cash back then) from the husbands at the factory gate before they drank up all the money.

Norway ended up flat out banning alcohol consumption for years. Ironically we had to end the ban due to pressure from France, Spain and Portugal who did not tolerate that they could not export alcohol to Norway anymore.

I think they said we used to be part of what they called the Vodka belt: https://www.balticrun.com/vodka-belt-europe/

I did actually grow up mostly drinking vodka at parties. Not sure how it works today. But I always heard stories about Russians and Vokda. We didn't have quite the same relation to it has we have been told Russians have. Like we would rarely drink it plain. Usually it is mixed with juice, soda or something else.

Today the culture has shifted a lot more towards beer and wine. It is what our liquor monopoly promotes. Their ads focus on food. They try to encourage drinking as part of food culture like in Southern Europe rather than the binge drinking we are known for.