For Christmas Manja had arranged a trip to Oslo for me. I chose to interpret it as an extended date-trip 🥰
So Friday morning we got ready and headed over to the airport. Traffic wasn’t great, so the Taxi took a bit longer but we knew about this in advance and left early enough. We got through security and boarded a short time later. Take-off was a bit bumpy, but the flight was fine and we landed in Oslo 1.5 hours later to a beautiful snowy landscape.
As always, Manja had pre-organised everything and we knew we just had to find our way to the normal train to get to our Airbnb near the city center. At the airport we had the most friendly guy sort out the tickets for us, and we were off without any issues. 25 Minutes later we arrived at the trainstation but could not find our connection – we knew from Google that we had to go to platform “A”. After walking around a bunch, Manja spotted a map which showed us the location of Platform A, but it took us OUT of the trainstation. I mean, WTF? As I looked around confused we both realised what was going on at the same moment. “Platform A” was the bus station. Two stops later we were at our Airbnb, ready to do an escape-room like adventure to get the keys. We found the shop across the road, managed to find the “Key sharing booth” and opened the key compartment with an SMS.
The appartment where we’re staying looks great: while it’s on the 5th floor of an old-school building, they had installed the tiniest elevator in between the circular staircase to the top: Only just space enough for Manja and I to fit in at the same time.
After dropping our bags, the next challenge would be finding lunch. We consulted the google oracle and found an interesting sounding place “San Francisco Bread Bowl”, which was conveniently located between our Airbnb and the City center. Everything in Oslo itself appears to be walking distance, so we headed over and ended up walking along “Balders Gate”. For those who don’t get why I thought this was funny, here is a hint.
Lunch was as delicious as it was simple and plentiful. Very much sated we stumbled down to the harbour for a bit of a walk around. The scenery is just amazing, the area has several arts centers in it too. From the banks we could also see this colorful tree, which encouraged us to stop and make a video 🙂
At one point we got a message from our Airbnb host who asked us to check if she left the keys behind… As we were not there yet we could not check. She let us know that it didn’t matter, because she wouldn’t be home tonight anyway… Which meant we would have the flat to ourselves and could have a chilled night in after sunset.
On our way back we checked out a few stores to see if we could find a replacement for Manjas breaking jacket, but with limited success. As we were both super tired by this point, but with very little hunger, we decided to head back to our Airbnb with a bag of chips to watch a movie. The idea is to head to bed timely so that we can make the most of the daylight hours tomorrow.
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