Norweigan adventures

We're at the train station in Oslo right now, having just said goodbye to Philippa, Cornelia and Jon, and ready to go to Stockholm to see Rupert.

The last week in Norway has been so much fun! Em first met Cornelia when she came to Barker as an exchange student 9 years ago, and she's still just as crazy!! She and Jon made sure our week was packed full of as much as we could see - we went to Bygdøy to see Viking ships,


we went sailing on the Oslo Fjords,


we spent a night in the mountains and did a 17km hike at Besseggen,


we climbed to the top of Hollmenkollen (the ski jump from the 1952 Olympics),


and even got to visit a Vinmonopolet (which translates as "wine monopoly" and is a government run bottle-shop, and the only place where you can buy spirits and wine in Norway... meaning the prices are always kept sky high!).


Norway has definitely been an expensive place to travel in. We've eaten a 20 dollar ham sandwich, and a 30 dollar bowl of pasta. But we were introduced to the cheapest place to get a good meal by Corny and Jon, and ate dinner there twice... IKEA!!! The Ikea in Oslo is enormous, and even has a garden centre and a restaurant! Highly recommended for cheap eats!