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Norway
Diary
After arriving from the airport & checking in to the hotel I went for a walk around the city centre. I ended up by taking a long walk around the Akershus Fortress complex taking in the beautiful sunset over the Fjord before heading back to the hotel and d
d03602 Sunday, 19 December, 2004
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Monday, 20 December, 2004 Virtually the whole day was spent out in Bygdøy. First stop was the Norsk Folk museum, a collection of over 200 traditional buildings that have been rebuilt on the site. One of the most impressive is the Stave church, one of the few left.
Tuesday, 21 December, 2004
Dawn and I'm already up and about and on a day when there is snow in the air, going up the side of a mountain!! A couple off stops down the hill from Voksenkollen is Holmenkollen, home to the first purpose built ski-jump in Norway & also home to the ski m d03605
Just enough time to quickly pop down to Aker Brygge to take a couple of photos of the fortress and town hall.
d21601 Wednesday, 28 May, 2014
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Thursday, 29 May, 2014 After the first night’s sleep with actual darkness for several days, and a hearty breakfast, we headed down to Aker Brygge to pick up the Museum boat out to Bygdøy…
Friday, 30 May, 2014
Breakfast was a slightly more complex affair as the hotel was obviously struggling to cope with the number of guests all wanting breakfast at the same time and there was quite a long wait before we were able to get a table… d21604
Another disjointed breakfast that was possibly even busier than the previous mornings…
d21605 Sunday, 01 June, 2014
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Friday, 01 December, 2017 I’d been working at home and had to make a bit of a dash across London to get to the airport in time…
Saturday, 02 December, 2017
The hotel was clearly designed for conferences… d29903
After another filling breakfast and checking out I headed back down to Aker Brygge…
d43701 Monday, 29 May, 2023
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Tuesday, 30 May, 2023 Final check-out from a hotel completed we were aiming to catch the tram back down to Aker Brygge to pick up the ferry out into the islands…
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