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| Evidence we went to Norway. |
Don’t let a stop over pass you by without investigating your
options. I’m genuinely a nervous flyer in terms of being on time and do not
like to leave it late at all. I’m the girl who is there first in the queue an
hour earlier than recommended. Don’t judge me, it’s because of this very reason
I get away with too much luggage, the best seats available or even the odd
upgrade. But when you’re given your flight and it has two stop over’s in Norway
I can’t tell you the smile on my face!
As you know I’m attempting to visit every country in the
world as part of my bucket list and due to this rather costly point on the list
you cant expect to spend countless day in each place – you have to be brutal, it’s
a cut throat system unfortunately. So there we were for 9 hours in Norway.
TICK!
We met a lovely lady who told us the exchange rate [27krone
to €1] and we were stoked, not only were we ticking off Norway but doing it
cheaply. A quick taxi ride to the town centre for some lunch where they offered
us whale steak – now I know I’m no veggie but I just cant bring myself to eat
something so wonderful.
Then took a stroll through the small town, which was quite
pretty. It was however freezing so we took refuge in a museum. Now I know what
you’re thinking – ‘you don’t do museums’ and I don’t. But it was cheap and in
the warmth. Paid our money and then ventured into what we assumed was a whale
museum. Unfortunately our frozen brains read Whale museum when it was in fact a
whaling museum. So not really an up lifter at all, more of a room of death and
cruelty. We did manage to leave our thoughts in the guest book as we left to
rather brave the cold.
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| The Whaling museum left a different impression on us. |
On our way back in the taxi to our flight we were telling
our taxi driver how cheap everything was and he was shocked saying Norway is
one of the most expensive places in Europe. My mind instantly doubting myself
asked him what he thought the exchange rate was. It was in fact nowhere near 27
to 1, it was 7Krone to €1. Shocked but in fits of laughter at our ignorance we
laughed the whole way back shocked that we didn’t double check it ourselves. I
guess a life lesson learned the hard way.
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| "Stop over" attire |
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| Apparently a world famous fountain - Tick |
Our little whirlwind trip was never the less fabulous, and
we have picture evidence to add to the tick.
Saying bye for now while I continue ticking away.
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| Not the whale but mussels instead |
xxx
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| Life is too short - make every moment count - even the annoying stop - overs |
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