Rica Travel Hotel Oslo

... The talks were interesting, I actually felt like I understood most of what they discussed (which is kinda a first..).

At lunch we all headed to the dining hall and our plates were already set and fixed. Yay it was all meat! I had lunch with 3 of the other biggest names of the conference, which was pretty nerve-wrecking actually. It's always strange when you've read these people's papers and you know they're 10 ...

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... cool upcoming Center for Knowledge and Culture in Saudi Arabia), Museums of Contemporary Art and Modern Art, the Munch Museum (home to the Scream), the cool Viking Ship Museum, the Folk Museum (skansen), the Fram ship museum (a ship that has been to both poles), the Maritime Museum, the surprising Kon Tiki museum, the small but neat Nobel Peace Award Museum (the other Nobel prizes are awarded in Sweden, but no one knows why ...

... we headed out to the ski jump at Hollmenkollen. The drive up to the top of the mountain was amazing (although we could have down without the constant din of Ellen). When we reached a look out point, we had a fantastic viewpoint of the town and valley. Again, well worth it.

Afterwards we went to the actual ski jump. Unfortunately the ski jump is under heavy construction. It was originally constructed in the late 1800s, and updated a few times since then. It was ...

... talking and I gather fun was had by all. I certainly had a great time anyway. Thomas looked up the bus times for us so we coordinated our exit and only had to wait a few minutes before it arrived. It took a while to wind its way down the hill to the centre of town but when it did it dropped us near to the hotel. We then finally checked in, got our room and had to clean ourselves before getting to sleep quite late. Thankfully breakfast the next day was to run until noon ...

... liked. Nothing much more to say... Akershus Slott - actually, kinda lame. They said there was a self guided tour, but it was really just a couple of posters with a tiny bit of information, and not really that much to see. Also saw the changing of the guard here. How many of those do you think I'll see that on this trip?? Norsk Folkemuseum - its an open air museum with a collection of traditional houses from all over Norway. They had some ...

... are just so many different types of beautiful waterways here; fjords, waterfalls, rivers absolutely everywhere. I've lost count of the amount of waterfalls we've seen - you can see now how Norway has 9 of the 20 highest waterfalls in the world. The mountains are still snow capped and there's still a fair bit of snow around, we drove up as high as 1300m to come over a pass and all of the lakes were still frozen - Josh took a fantastic panoramic photo at 1020m outside the town of ...

... the journey would start with a bus to Harwick and then a ferry to the hook of Holland and then another bus to Amsterdam but in fact the bus left Victoria coach station for Dover and the ferry ride was then to Calais with the bus then passing through Belgium and onto Holland. Somewhat longer than i had thought. With the accommodation escape i had made the day before and now this I'm starting to feel that i should start planning things a bit more. My take each day as it comes ...

... out of the hotel .... to get food, that is very expensive.... so do bring lots of credit cards with lots of credit because in Oslo you will need it. A simple meal of pizza and a small drink cost me over 25.00 dollars.... I walked to the pier.... and saw all kinds of boats...... coming in and out of the little harbour. My body temperature I could tell would drop a few grades..just by ...

... until recently and that this was where most of the people of Oslo lived and that we were heading into the actual city of Oslo, which was older, etc. It took us a long time to arrive to the hostel but when we did I had a very hefty bill to pay for the taxi driver. I didn't expect for it to be that high (close to about 100 dollars US) and it was heartbreaking for me to give all that money to the taxi driver just for a ...