Trevor & Sylvain On Tour: G´day from Norway

Greetings from Oslo!

The sun has just come out as I type! It has been a day of rain after arriving in Oslo late late on Saturday night. (ie more early Sunday than late Saturday). We´re staying with friends Kari & Ove and their family though they had to be away the weekend for a wedding in the far north (where we just came from). Typing from the mac in their kitchen. The house is stunning, a very modern scandinavian look.

Despite the rain we explored the city, and for me it was revisiting old memories of when I studied here in the past, which was really great, but also exploring some places new. The architecture has grown in the past decade and we got to see the stunning new Oslo Opera House. It´s so new they don´t even have finished pictures on their website, but I have some of those, so watch out for more soon... but it is stunning - I love it. A lot of white and right on the water it looks like it´s floating there. They´re comparing it with the Sydney Opera House, and I can see why - though the actual look is completely different.

The days in the North of Norway have been fantastic - we covered a lot of ground in a short period of time. There are thundering waterfalls coming out of your ears! I think we both exclaimed "wow look at that waterfall!" seriously more than 100 times. And they´re not just trickles they´re like massive rivers flowing down the mountains. Od course the midnight sun was spectacular - but what´s most brilliant is that the Norwegians still go to bed at kinda normal times which means we had the whole landscape to ourselves in the sunlight. Brilliant and eery all at once.

Ove & Kari up late

Kari & Ove have kept us well despite it being for such a short time. We stayed up very late last night (until Ove was falling off his chair) catching up and it really would be nice to stay longer. But today we´re headed back to Sweden and to catch up with our friends Marcus & Helene and their kids there and hopefully also Anders & Joanna and family before we fly off to Iceland.

Missing still are my photos, and I do apologise, but bear with me - hopefully I´ll get a chance to sort the technology out soon. Just not today. Sweden is waiting.