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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