Oslo

Tuesday 15^th May

On the move early to catch a flight to Oslo, we were advised that a bus departed near the hostel for the airport which saved us a tram and train trip and was about half the price.

Our flight pushed out from the terminal five minutes early but took twenty five minutes to taxi to the take-off point, an hour and a half flight and four minutes to taxi to the terminal and we were in Norway.

The train ride into Oslo provided a complete change in scenery from our last three week’s travel through Europe, where we didn’t see a hill and all the country side was lush and green.  The farm lands here are hilly and many of the cropping paddocks were brown with last year’s stubble or being ploughed for this year’s crops and we didn’t see many animals grazing though there was plenty of pasture.

Arriving at Oslo Central we had a ten minute walk to the hostel but it took ten minutes to find some street names and work out which direction to walk.  The hostel is rather tired and costs more than the better hotels we have stayed in but has a kitchen which will save us some money in this very expensive country; we are only staying here for one night before travelling on to Flam but will return in three weeks.