View of Oslo from our hotel room.
We spent Saturday driving along the coast down towards Sweden. Came across a completely frozen lake (we thought it was nifty).
Stopped in at the town with Santa’s shop, unfortunately it was about the only week all year that it is closed – I was very disappointed!!!
Stopped at a village on the fjord but due to the season, we couldn’t go for a boat ride across.
Made friends with some of the locals though, Ariel says hi.
Crossed the border and had an afternoon snack in Sweden before heading back to Oslo.
Sunset on the way home from Sweden.
Luke and I decided that we needed to try some of the local cuisine so we went to dinner that night at a pretty schmancy restaurant. Luke and I shared cods tongues for entrée and then each had reindeer for main. Cods tongues were interesting and the reindeer had a bit of a strange taste but was really nice.
Sunday was spent wandering around Oslo City, spotted some ice statues in the park and had a walk along the harbour. Had a quick look at the palace – didn’t quite make the guard change.
View from the palace.
Also drove out to the ski jump from the winter Olympics held there in 1952. The jump was huge and they use the landing area as a pool in summer!!!
Wanted to try our hand at tobogganing but unfortunately due to the run being icy we couldn’t hire any toboggans. Watched the last bit of an outdoor ice hockey game before heading to a Viking ship museum. The ships were quite well preserved – some from around 900AD.
Overall a good weekend and we had wonderful weather, sunshine the whole time, temperature low but no wind so very lucky. Was cool to be somewhere covered in snow, people cross country skiing to get around and with the boats floating in a frozen harbour.
2 comments:
very good.
like it. except for the background.
Updates! I agree with Callan, a bit garish. Wooa
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