Passing through Oslo
We flew from Helsinki to Oslo this evening and are holed up in a simple hotel a couple of blocks from the central train station here. Tomorrow morning, we have an 8:11am train reservation to start our two-day "pre-excursion" overland across Norway to Bergen. We'll be taking two trains, a ferry, and a couple of buses to pass through Flåm, Ulvik, and Hardanger Fjord on the way there. We'll then get a day of sightseeing in Berger before boarding a cruise ship for a six-day trip up the Norwegian coast, almost to the Russian border. Woo-hoo!
On the flight here from Helsinki, there was a packet of sugar in the napkin-and-fork bag with our airline snack. Written on the packet was the following:
Imagine if it snowed sugar
It would still look like snow,
but a lot more people
would be eating out
OK.