Just breakfast then a bus to the airport, only took 10 minutes.
Vilnius airport was packed – every check in desk had a queue, and they were very slow.
Boarding was equally slow – we had our boarding passes checked then had to wait on some stairs for 5 minutes for the bus to come back and pick us up – the airport is not geared up to cope with the number of travellers. I was amazed at the number of tourists – I wouldn’t have thought Vilnius would be so popular.
2 hour flight to Oslo, plane full, had a nap.
Landed in Norway, the 60th country I’ve been to.
Norway – land of Volvo, Abba; no, that’s the other one.
Norway – land of the Fjords, which we won’t be going to.
Got the train to the city, then a couple of trams to the hotel which was actually a serviced apartment complete with an oven, stove and dishwasher. We’re only staying for 2 nights but might make use of it since everything here is very expensive. The bathroom had a heated floor, which was nice.
Dumped the bags and went out to get something to eat, The weather was overcast and about 10C. There were plenty of places to eat just outside the door. We opted for a restaurant attached to a pub – the menu looked pretty good.
I had lamb Bourgignon, song had mussels. I also had a beer, which I thought was local but turned out to be from Scotland. The meal cost 600 kroner, which was – holy moly – 115 AUD.
Left the restaurant before we got charged for sitting down, and walked about 20 minutes to the Frogner park. The houses in the area were very nice, and I saw more Teslas in 10 minutes than you see in Melbourne in a week (6 in all). There were dark clouds and thunder and lightning in the distance moving towards us, so we didn’t spend long, just walked across a bridge that had dozens of statues of naked people, and to a fountain.
Decided not to risk getting caught in the rain so hopped on a tram and accidentally forgot to buy a ticket (it was only 3 stops).
The hotel didn’t provide breakfast so we popped into a supermarket and bought some stuff.
Quite worn out, retired for the evening.
Tomorrow is exploring Oslo.
