Oslo Adventures

Hey all... Poodle here. B says I must start earning my keep, and do my share of the blogging, or she will find someone to take my place on our most excellent adventures.

Using the trusty TripAdvisor iPad app thingy, we looked for a good restaurant nearby, and decided to treat ourselves to an awesome first meal. At the prices of things here, it would probably be our last meal too.

We took a short walk over a small babbling brook (it was babbling about silly things like dresses and who kissed whom), and then we arrived at a restaurant called "Delicatessen" which TripAdvisor recommended, which offered great traditional Norwegian food like Spanish tapas and Italian sausage. We ordered a variety of dishes and the food was really fantastic, and though it was expensive by SA standards, it was quite reasonable for Norway.

Since B is a raging alcoholic, she had to have wine, while I had tap water which helped me lose lots of weight (dodgy foreign country water syndrome - pics to follow). No seriously, we ordered 2 glasses of the house wine. Firstly, they only poured half a glass. Secondly, each glass cost NOK 78. So, for 2 (half) glasses of wine, we paid R 234.00. Gag! We're on a strict daily budget, and so B has decided that food is surplus to requirements and Meths is a perfectly acceptable wine-alternative.

Now that we couldn't afford transport, we took a long walk through town and discovered the booty store. B did most of our Arctic shopping in London, but didn't manage to get snow boots.

She fell in love with Sorel Joan of Arctics and bought a pair of awesome snow boots. These were cheaper than the wine! Not really, but you get the idea. I bought a pair of plastic bags to cover my feet as I would rather have wine than keep all my toes. B has always hated the fact that my second toe is longer than my first. I aim to correct that on this trip - who says frostbite can't be useful?

Next day.

We awoke to the sounds of birds barking and dogs chirping and oompah bands oomparing. Not really, but how cool would that be?

After a short breakfast consisting mainly of processed meats and sausages, we decided it would be a great idea to walk-in our new boots. We walked to the botanical gardens, where B took some awesome pics. Unfortunately almost everything here opens after 11am so we could not visit the museum of Natural History unless we were prepared to stand around in the cold for a few hours waiting.

Next bright idea - return to our room, change into normal shoes and walk 10 km+ to the Vigelands Park ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Johans_gate). Here we saw some well dodgy statues of naked people and naked children. Apparently it's great art, and B said she appreciated most of it, but she's pretentious and I'm apparently a yabo. Then we walked back through the market of the main road, Karl Johans Gate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Johans_gate) where they sell non alcoholic Gluhwein (WTF? What's the point?) and reindeer stew.

More to follow....


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