Friday 14 August 2009

Enjoying slow life on Oslo


At Gotenberg we changed back from bus to train and after lunch the ladies directed us to a couple of local antique and craft places which we found to be very quiet and not that interesting.

By the time we got to Oslo it was almost 11 pm and we had had enough for the day. Oslo felt good with just a touch of a tougher edge as we walked the short distance from the train station to our Grand Hotel. We noticed that there were a few foreigners about and the crowd seemed a bit older here than Copenhagen.

In the morning Randall took off for a jog to explore central Oslo as the city got going for the day. The harbour is every bit as good as Sydney enhanced by quite a few old wooden boats with great masts. A ferry arrived to disgorge city workers who drifted into town and their offices. To Randall Oslo feels good. No security types looking for Osama Bin Laden here. No Germanic public instructions laying down the way things are done around here. It is just a beautiful relaxed city looking forward to a sunny day.

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