Our month in Norway was planned out this way:
About 2 weeks for Hurtigruten's Norway in a Nutshell fjord cruise.
A week in Svelvik visiting our relatives.
Five days in Oslo exploring Norway's capital city.
Saturday 19th May:
We landed at Oslo's Gardermoen airport (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Airport,_Gardermoen) and cleared customs very quickly. Those of us with nothing to declare just walked straight through. We had to work out how to buy tickets for the Express Train from the airport to Oslo Central Station, but after fussing around at the self serve ticket terminal we succeded and got onto the train.
It was a short 50 metre walk from Central Station to our hotel, the Thon Hotel Opera.
So called because it sits right in front of Oslo's new Opera House.
It's certainly a radical design.
After settling in to our room (we only had one night here) we went for a walk. The jet lag hadn't set in yet, that happened later that night when we crashed out.
We found this big pussycat roaming the square next to the hotel. We went over to Central Station to familiarise ourselves with its layout because tomorrow we had to catch the train to Bergen. We were officially on the Norway in a Nutshell Tour but the sections before and after the cruise were self-guided. That meant we had to read the guide notes the night before and make sure we knew where we had to go and what we had to do.
With our bags packed, we walked back to Central Station and worked out what platform would have our train on it.
The Norwegian rail system is very impressive. Our tickets were prepaid as part of our tour and all we had to show the conductor was our book of travel vouchers.
There's Robyn way down the back.
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