First Ambassadeur Drammen

... but I didn't experience this at all. Apart from being located near to a few seedy strip joints, it was fine. Also it was free of the 'great' hostel experience - bunk beds. Luxury to have your own bed! On the minus side, one toilet to each floor? WTF? Actually each floor had two but with the signage I wasn't taking any chances. (see pics) At around 6, I went for a wander, the main purposes of which were a) to find a ...

... stalls, street performers, happy kids, and pubs charging double their usual rates. I and my new like-minded friends were there for only one reason of course, Norways internationally forgotten one hit wonder Lene Marlin. She was the opening act of the Elvesfestival, on stage at 7pm to get the crowd buzzing with her deceptively deep pop hits before the folk dancers and jug bands came on. The venue was a small leafy park enclosed by medium sized apartment ...

... good for me since I can only say "Tag" (thanks) in Norweigian. We were still sober then. As the evening went on we continued to foreplay (this is the Norweigian term for pre-party or pre-game I kid you not). Nice huh? So according to Tom we had a long foreplay at his condo. (too bad I don´t have better pics of his condo since it is really nice- 50 inch flat screen, brand new kitchen, ikea stuff everywhere). I deter. So, then we decided it ...

... giving the quantity of them that we saw. Since it was a Sunday, many of them were tooling about, even with the foul weather. Yes, we were poured on yet again. Oslo "averages" 80 degrees and many sunny days in July. Today it rained, heavily at times, and was around 64 degrees. I still wore shorts - maybe because I had no clean jeans - but it helped, since soaked jeans are far worse than wet legs... It rained so hard at times that it seemed to be ...

... Gogh, Gaugin and Monet ... all the big guns really! Afterwards we walked around town and went and saw the brand new Opera House. It was a very interesting, I guess split level type building, where you could walk up the outside and onto the roof viewing area. Up early on the second day, to pack in as much as we could. We bought 24 hour Oslo passes for 220 NOK and managed about 600 NOK on each. We started off with ...

... Jeg sender denne mailen til dere grunnet desperasjon, lei hverdag, og savnet > etter og jobbe i et bra team med kreativt arbeid. > Kort sagt: vi må få i gang noe snart, ta opp tråden med gamle kontakter, > grave opp i gamle ideer, og prøve og få i gang no fett. > > Jeg er så ekstremt lei av denne hverdagen, jeg er så lei av folk som setter > foten forran meg og sier "kjenn på tå`a om den passer`a", og jeg må b ...

... hadn't previously attempted to do. I set off really early and in the knowledge from one of the other walkers that it was a flat walk and nothing too strenuous. Indeed it followed along those lines through the town of Balmaha but when i turned the corner and was faced with an almost vertical climb up Conic Hill i was screaming the mans name in frustration. In his defense he was walking the other-way so it would have been down hill for him but i wasn't so reasonable in my thoughts ...

Sekken og kofferten er pakket og vi er klare for avreise! Drar fra Oslo 11.45 i morgen, med mellomlanding først i London, så i Hong Kong før vi kommer til Kuala Lumpur hvor vi skal være i 3 dager. Blir en lang tur, er ikke framme i Kuala Lumpur før  klokka 19.00 mandag k veld.  Men vi gleder oss! Vi kommer til å oppdatere her når vi kan, og legge inn noen bilder etterhvert også. Torill og Elisabeth

... a walk up Karl Johans street. I was a bit surprised to find it almost as crowded as in the day, It was nothing like Trondheim(that's the city where I live) where most of the streets are abandoned after 8 o'clock.... (Don't get me wrong, there's still nightlife here to, but not so centered in one place..) As we went to sleep that night we knew that the next day would probably be the most exhausting of the lot....

... to me in Norwegian (which was a bit scary to me). I asked her if she spoke English and she said that she did, apologized for speaking to me in Norwegian like that and repeated what she was going to say. She wanted to know if I wanted butter for my toast or anything like that and I told her no thanks and she left. As weird as my meal sounded, it was actually quite good. The hamburger was actually tasty fried like that and ...