Monday, July 23, 2007

Norway on a budget. A really expanded budget

Olso, Norway - the most expensive city in the world.

It was so expensive, we didn't do shit there. I'm pretty sure we just walked around and found geocaches. We grabbed some hobo lunch from the grocery store - I got some lame sandwich that they put corn on. Yes, corn. apparently this is nornal here. It must have cost about 5 Kroners per kernel thus justifying the price of the sandwich. Jess of course had some veggies from a can and some other stuff. Can't remember what.

I took a picture of Jess with the guard at the lame looking royal palace. She threw up the peace sign. From there we proceeded to walk around the city. That cost nothing. We walked around and then headed back to the hostel to hop on the internet. That cost about 1 buck for 5 minutes (we're in Belgium and it's back to that fucking annoying French keyboard). We ended up buying flights to Bergen where the Fjords are, rather than taking the train, which would have cost us each 130 bucks one way.

I think we napped then headed out to the grocery store for more hobo food to eat in our room while playing cards. We walked around at night and hit the sack because we had an early flight to Bergen.


We got to Bergen, which they call Baggin but it sounds like Bag End, Bilbo Baggins' house. I know I have a Brooklyn/LI accent but even I know there's an R in Bergen. But Baggin, uh, Bergen is a cute little town. It's definitely an old school fishing town and it reminded Jess of Oyster Bay, which is interesting since she also saw some guy who looked like Billy Joel on our Fjord tour. We walked down to the fish market and I got some overpriced sandwhich with smoked salmon and Jess got fish. I think we went back to the hostel and napped - then got up to buy food to make for dinner. I again got some smoked salmon - already cooked with some other stuff on it. It was pretty damn tasty, I have to admit.

At around 3 pm we hopped on the boat to tour the Fjord. The boat was packed and people crammed in the upper part so they could be on the outside and see. It was a small Fjord - not the huge one and it had only one small snow capped mountain off in the distance. It was still pretty cool though. I took a ton of pictures of course. There were people who were on the side having a BBQ and just enjoying the weather - which was getting cold. Not the Fjord and scenery I hoped to see but still pretty nice.
We got up and hung out in a park and slept on benches after pleying cards and then got the plane to Oslo and then on to Lithuania. We saw some woman collapse in the airport - not sure what happened but figured we shouldn't stay and watch. On to Vilnius, Lithuania.

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