Still in Oslo, but I'll be taking the night train to Copenhagen in a few hours. I could wander a bit more around in Oslo, but the lack of sunshine keeps me inside. Generally the weather has been poor during my city visits, which includes Glasgow, Bergen and Oslo. However, luckily my nature walks in Turnberry at the Open and up the hill in Bergen have been fairly well.
Arriving in Oslo on Friday, I strolled around a bit, meeting some people and waiting for the night train to Bergen to leave - nothing special, except Norway's bloody expensive.
Meeting new people is coming along great. I'm nearly half way through my small book, where I let all the people I meet write in, and I just started properly travelling one week ago. The first six pages or so are from people I met in London, but now I'm travelling on my own I think I've met roughly 30 people in only seven days. And there are about 7 languages being used and some drawings. Not bad, ey?
Coming back to my travels, Bergen was beautiful and I enjoyed it even though the Norwegian I met in Ghana ditched me, but then again I wouldn't have made the great and also weird experiences that I have made. I stayed in a dorm in a hostel, with bunk neighbours from Hongkong, California, French-Canada and Austria. There were also two Italians, but I didn't talk to them. I had some amazing views over the Fjord from the hill the second day, although once I got back down in the early afternoon I was bummed out for the rest of the day. I could've taken the Floyenbahn, but by strolling up the hill I could enjoy nature much more and had some great views, as mentioned before. And of course it was cheaper.
I could have taken the Flambahn, but i would have had to get up at 7:30, which would have been too hard for me. After the train back to Oslo broke down and we had to change trains and then get onto busses because the last part before Oslo had maintenance work going on I arrived 1 3/4 hours late at 00:15 in the morning. My host was already asleep because of work and the train company wouldn't pay for a hotel, so I decided to set out for the bars and if nothing comes up, I would sleep in the centralstation. After being in a bar til 2:00 I left and headed for the station, which was closed. Luckily there were some drunk Norwegians I started talking to and they invited me to join them in the next pub and sleep at their place afterwards. They were three friends and a stranger who celebrated receiving twins that day. After the pub and a couple of rounds of Buzz and Tiger Woods PGA tour 08 I went to sleep at 6:00 and woke up at 13:00. The guy at who's flat I was staying was really great.
From their place I went to my couchsurfing host and slept there for another night.
I've just had a walk around in oslo and saw some sights, like the King's palace, the park with all the naked statues and the Opera house, which cost about 3 billion NOK, 3000 just for each door handle. That's crazy...
Pictures will follow hopefully soon
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Sounds awesome, meeting all those people... can't wait till you show me their drawings and hopefully you got some photos of them too!
Lucky the drunk Norwegians didn't rape you and steal from you :-) After my encounter with the Samoan guy, I was a lot more careful and didn't take the pictures of people living in the desert, as I had planned to do. Gonna do that on my next visit. But I'll come with a gun next time! ;-)
Have an awesome time...
I'm gonna hit the road again pretty soon too... gonna do some urban exploring in Eastern Germany's abandoned industries.
Hi Simon,
here are my photos from Denmark, Sweden and Norway (and more :) :
http://blog.domovoj.com/
Your fellow-traveller from the Oslo-Bergen train ;)
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