Rica Park Hotel Sandefjord

... In Admont Austria, a small town of 3000 people, our friend Hans lives with his wife Barbara, and their two children Martina and Katrin. This is a small town that we could definitely take up residence in. It is surrounded by beautiful tall mountains, and wonderful green pastures in the valley below. Next we went to Krakow, arriving late in the evening and getting up early the next morning to catch a bus to the town of Oswiecim which is close to ...

... but the 17m high Slottsfjellstårnet tower built after the war within the castle ground provides a good view of Tønsberg and the Oslofjord. Then the torrential rain came and the day trip to Tønsberg was abandoned for the next train to Oslo. Interesting fact for all you pub quizzers. The sanitory towel was invented here as well as alot of equipment associated with whaling and on that note i will end this blog here.

... granite quarried here (Larvikite) and a statue of Thor Heyerdahl. Got to Stavern and set up camp in what appeared an all Norwegian caravan park bar and being the only English person there bar from 5 Dutch tourists. One of the main attraction of this area is the Kyststien , a coastal path that passes through most campsites around Stavern. Trying to save my money, Norway is very expensive i decided to make the 7.5 km ...

... Karen family that is a member of the Church to come to Norway so she'll have someone to talk to. Before leaving I gave our prospective visit in Oslo a call to see about meeting later this afternoon. He had read my email from the night before and already arranged for us to have dinner at his home and told us that he had made arrangements to spend the night as well. Things are moving along TOO well on this ...

... talking about the difference between American pancakes and the Norwegian ones (which are almost crepes). If I can find some maple syrup, I would like to make an American pancake breakfast for the family. I'd also like to try and bake some sugar cookies since I don't think I've seen them here yet. Tomorrow I'm getting the car, so I will try to drive to Tønsberg to see if I can find a can of cream of mushroom soup for making tuna noodle casserole for dinner ...

... This time was so much worse. There was thunder and lighting, LOTS of wind, and of course rain. While we were still on the road I thought I saw a tornado forming! There were a few vagabond clouds hanging low and starting to form a circle. I didn't ever hear about a tornado afterwards so it was probably just my imagination running wild, but even so, it was quite the storm. We were drenched ...

Anne-Marie is here, we are ready to leave. We have packed our small backpacks, but we will have to repack them several times to be sure we do not carry too much unneccessary stuff to the Far East. It will be hot enough, for sure. Anne-Marie doesn't know how hot it will be, but she is very brave.

... in Norway to have them. They are small rustic cabins built as a shelter for whoever is watching the cows when it is time to move them to greener pastures up-hill. The whole trip was so neat. It's kind of corny but the woods seemed so magical. I could imagine the elves running along the underbrush and fairies flying over the pond. It made me think of playing in the woods on camping trips and re-creating the adventures of Bilbo Baggins.

... made it additionally hard to sleep, but I think I managed 2 or 3 hours. I made a friend named Alok who was on his way home to India after a 2-month-long business trip compliments of Microsoft. It's always nice to have a friendly person to talk to, especially when you're stuck in a small space for 9 hours. He even burned a CD for me with Hindu devotional ...

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