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... truly a wonderful park and a place to revisit!<br><br>Our tour ended and we were exhausted. So we ended the day with a visit to the Hard Rock Cafe for supper. Most expensive hamburger I ever had in my life....and we dropped a wack of money at the kiosk. Oh well...when in Oslo!<br><br>We sucessfully made it back to Suburbia and our hotel room. Again....short straws were drawn as to who slept next to me. I`m getting a complex! Imagine....bring kids into the world...to find them ...

... major injury and had a good time running along the deck and being thrown about in the wind. If you jumped up in the air, the wind would throw you back a few feet, bowl you over, and you would go sliding along the deck. Very fun.   Eventually, after getting soaked outside &amp; heading back to the club for some more karaoke/dance action, we headed back down to the cabins and went to sleep.   The next morning, no one was feeling great. A lot of people (again, myself ...

... hearth with a whitewashed chimney to vent the smoke, and a table with chairs for eating. We also saw the emergence of the concept of a porch. Some of the houses had a double wall, the house having a narrow passage running around the house between the wall of the house and this second exterior wall. This outside wall probably provided extra protection from the snow and wind in the winter and the enclosed area, storage for firewood. As ...

... book about motorcycle maintenance your train of thoughts start to wander a little. In my case it starts to wander a lot. You can do that when you're riding a motorcycle on the open road. Actually you can do a lot of that when you travel a lot. Enough about philosophy. My travels. I had a lot of good yesterday and a lot of bad. Leaving Gothenburg I stopped to take a picture of a castle (or something similar) and met 3 older guys on motorcycles. They were ...

... by the way, who knew Reindeer are real? I sure didn´t), the sculpture park (with graphic statues of naked men, women, and children), and the harbor for lunch at TGIFridays (I know what you are thinking, but it was not my idea). I caught a little Olympics on t.v., sand volleyball, anyone see the U.S. b-ball team play China (good times), and the swimming is addicting no?? (specially after a solid hangover, will get to that entry ...

... sister of my good friend Claudia in Houston. When Claudia found out that I was going to Oslo, she kindly arranged for her sister to meet me and take me around the city. Judith originally came from Berlin, so I had e-mailed her previously in both Norwegian and German. Before coming to Norway in 2001 to work in the Pediatric Nursing department, she had to take 3 months of intensive Norwegian classes in Berlin. So, naturally her Norwegian was ...

... stop later in the journey except this time it was with a bottle of fanta and a mars bar. Good old Frank in his typically Irish country look of woolen cap, black faded blazer and big bushy eyebrows he had been robbing from every shop he entered since he had arrived in Dublin that afternoon. I made a mental note to keep a close eye on these Leitrim folk for now on. classic!! I arrived at the Piccadilly backpackers, with the sun already out on a lovely morning in London, totally ...

... of town where there was a Viking Ship museum - I was really hopping this would be open despite the holidays. When I arrived, the bus sped off and I walked to the doors of the museum excitedly to see some Viking ships and the doors were locked. Either way I had to now wait outside of town for another bus to arrive to jet me back to civilization, during my wait I decided to go for a walk. I came across what was the Nordic Folk Museum, which ...

... emanating from the unbelievably overpriced restaurants along the water (didn't think I'd ever find somewhere even more expensive than London!) Next day took a fjord cruise (with a chinese tour guide!) which wasn't too exciting, but took up 2 of the 12 hours we had to kill before the overnight train. The sun came out for a while so took a nice walk through the quaint north west part of town to the ...

... the city. Its a nice city to do that in, and being a sunny day on the weekend, everyone was out and there were plently of street performers and other things going on. It had a really good feel to it, but nothing you cant get in Newy on a nice Sunday... As for the 2nd night at the hostel... That morning we had to remind them that we booked 2 nights, not 1 as they seemed to think. We had only paid for one, and even after I told the girl we wanted ...