Scandinavia 2019

Jet lag can be rough, and when you spend hours awake in the middle of the night, the alarm in the morning is not a welcomed sound! But the day awaits with part 1 of our “Norway in a Nutshell” tour as we get up, grab breakfast and leave the hotel for the central train station. The Bergen Railway is not having a good start either. Due to service disruption (aka technical issues) our train arrives an hour late to … Read More

One of the key recommendations of all guides to Norway is to eat breakfast at the hotel (when included) since food is pretty expensive up here. After we gobble up another big buffet breakfast we head out once more to see what Oslo has to offer. Today has three sights on the schedule and we have a public transport day-pass to get us there. We hop on bus #30 get us to the  The Viking Ship Museum (Vikingskiphuset) which is … Read More

A good day starts with a good breakfast and the one at the hotel offers plenty. We have a slow start to the morning, trying to get out of jet lag and into sightseeing mode. Ribeke, one of Kirk’s internet friends from Norway (Thanks Ribeke!), suggested a route for today’s walking tour to get to see the most popular sights in Oslo. As we leave the hotel and cross through the Oslo Sentralstasjon, we’re already approaching our first sight: the … Read More

Another year, another adventure! When winter just doesn’t get cold enough in the Bay Area, we head north. Well east, then north … to Norway, the first country of our Scandinavia adventure! My parents have come all the way from Austria to house/dog/cat  sit for us, in hopes of some warmer weather. J.T. and Spot help us pack all our warm clothes for our winter trip. Lufthansa will take us from SFO to MUC on LH459, not only a packed … Read More