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Europe » Norway » Eastern Norway » Oslo August 18th 2001

I ate so much smoked salmon here it turned me off it for a year. And I LOVE smoked salmon.... read more

Europe » Norway June 16th 2001

Geo: 59.9138, 10.73871 - Ferry from Helsinki and train from Stockholm to Oslo... read more
Oslo
Cruise to Denmark
Cruise to Denmark

Europe » Norway June 15th 2001

Geo: 59.9138, 10.73871 -... read more
Norway-Bus
Norway-Bus
Norway-Bus

Europe » Norway June 12th 2001

Europe » Norway » Eastern Norway » Oslo March 24th 2001

So. We've finally made it Norway! We nearly missed our flight due to Heathrow being so so huge, we were at gate 1, and our gate was 53 .. *le siigh* Anyhoo .. Norway is so beautiful, although we were more hyped about seeing A-ha the next day we really didnt take many views in, but I soon learnt to USE the new camera I had brought. We met many a good people at the airport .. Brigitte, Karen, Mark, Steve and Emma, who helped us with our Norwegian and train to the hotel. London underground is easy compared to this! We spent the first evening exploring Oslo, trying not to forget where our hotel was, and visited Steve's hotel - the very posh 5 star directly in Oslo town, oohh! :D Anyhoo, we had pizza ... read more

Europe » Norway » Eastern Norway » Oslo February 12th 1999

Today in the hostel I woke up with the alarm of the man in the bunk below me. I think he was German, but at 7:30 in the morning, 6:30 Irish time, I didn't care where he was from. I lay awake trying to collect my thoughts. Ahead of me lay the promise of my first day in Norway and the daunting challenge of my first full day ever of solo traveling. I really had no idea what to expect. My first challenge was working the hostel shower. After thoroghly spraying my medicine bag and my clothes I enjoyed a surprisingly, bordering on painfully, hot shower. I then rolled down to the famed Norweigen breakfast where I picked myself up some juice, some ham and cheese, and some bread. I also picked myself up some cornflakes. ... read more
Folk Park
Viking Ship Museum
Palace Guards

Europe » Norway » Eastern Norway » Hamar July 1st 1998

Short visit to Hamer in Norway. Drive up was fantastic views.... read more

Europe » Norway » Southern Norway May 26th 1995

The kids had also never been on a European overnight ferry, and I wanted to visit Norway to see if I could find the grave stones and birth records of my ancestors. So over Memorial Day weekend, which we stretched to more than a week, we visited Norway and Denmark, passing through the Netherlands and Sweden on the way there and Germany on the way back. 26 May 1995 Friday. After work on Friday we drove to Rotterdam and loaded ourselves and our car on an overnight ferry, which was more like a cruise ship, to Goteborg, Sweden. We had a nice stateroom and a smorgasbord for dinner. 27 May 1995 Saturday. We arrived in Goteborg early in the morning and headed up the coast to Norway. At Moss we caught a ferry across the Oslo ... read more
Bob, Rosanna, and Tamara boarding our ferry
Tamara, Linda, Will and Rosanna on the stern of our ferry once underway
Will, Bob, and Rosanna in our stateroom on the ferry from Rotterdam, Holland to Goteborg, Sweden

Europe » Norway » Eastern Norway » Oslo May 12th 1993

The guy has a theory. ”There are no fiords”. Even though the cruise ship gracefully sails up the fiord leading to Oslo, the Swedish guy is convinced. He tries to convince some American tourists to accept his statement. It’s all just a conspiracy. Maybe by the Norwegian government, in order to attract tourists. Maybe it’s just an illusion. Many of the passengers are spending the morning observing the fantastic sight. So does the guy with the theory. Yet he claims that this is not a fiord. It is something else. It could be anything else, but not a fiord. Nobody is buying his argument, although it is a very interesting one. Maybe by the time of his return trip home the young lad had sobered up and established new theories that are easier to support. ... read more

Europe » Norway » Northern Norway » Bodø June 5th 1990

Although our usual Infrastructure Committees visits to various host countries were a week or more in length, upon occasion we took trips to see only one or two projects of significant interest. In these cases we didn't take the spouses. On this occasion, Norway wanted NATO to fund a radar site on top of a mountain in northern Norway. They wanted to show us why this location was of strategic significance, and the difficulty, and therefore the higher cost, of building in such rugged terrain. So on Tuesday, 5 June 1990, we flew from Brussels on a Norwegian military cargo aircarft to Bodo Air Base in northern Norway above the Arctic Circle. From there we took several Huey helicopters to an existing radar site in the Lofoten Islands, where we went through a tunnel into the ... read more




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