Tuesday, 25 September, 2018 – Another Warm Day
Loyal followers of this Blog. If you find yourself in a situation where you cannot see the photos and / or the captions or alignments are messed up, please go to http://www.beauperi.com directly and all those problems should go away.
No this is not about Javier Barden going around killing everybody. Instead, we are going to Norway, which is a country I have not been to before. In fact, on this trip there will be three new countries, Denmark, Norway and Luxemburg.
We head to the train station and get there early as usual. Eventually we are able to board, and not for the first time, the seats assigned to the kids do not exist. A bun fight occurs, as usual, but after much hassle we end up in the back of the carriage in a small area with two desks seating. We manage to hold onto that for the whole trip although the train eventually became quite full except for our 4 spare seats.
For what ever reason, we took no photos of the journey. Worth relating was a visit by the “military” after we crossed into Norway. There was a big, strong woman with a big gun. Then there was a woman with a drug sniffing dog. Then there was an even bigger guy, the leader, with an even bigger gun. There were several questions but no problems.
After 4 hours and 15 minutes, we arrive in Oslo. We walk from the station to our Hotel with the kids dragging the bags over cobblestones etc. Again, no photos were taken of the journey or the Hotel. It is quite different from the last place as this is a very modern building with new furniture etc.
We were initially in a much smaller room but the kids kindly swapped with us.
The Hotel offered free breakfast and dinner. We went down for the dinner.
That was the end of the evening for us. big day coming tomorrow.