diff --git a/content/blog/day17.md b/content/blog/day17.md index 765f7c6..40193c0 100644 --- a/content/blog/day17.md +++ b/content/blog/day17.md @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ realestate here, and it's surprisingly affordable compared to _Zurich_. Then, 90 minutes later and on an E6 motorway where we're allowed to go a whopping 110km/h, we rock up to _Oslo_. The route here brings us over E18 which is a huge tunnel under the city (and under the waterline, too), and we pop out of the tunnel just along the Color Line docks at 11:41am. The _Color Magic_ is docked and ready to go, and it's clearly an "entertainment" ferry. We'll go check it out tomorrow, as -we're not on this boat today, so we wave at it and continue to the hotel. The checkin is less smooth, we have to reception three times, +we're not on this boat today, so we wave at it and continue to the hotel. The checkin is less smooth, we have go to reception three times, the parking garage has a faulty parking meter, and they gave us a double room, not a twin. It's all quickly sorted, and the ladies at checkin are super friendly. @@ -37,9 +37,10 @@ checkin are super friendly. After the belabored hotel checkin, we go for some lunch. I had chosen our hotel to be in the old city center, just across _Aker Brygge_ and the _Akershus Festing_, so there's plenty of things to see and do here. Our lunch is at _Shufl_ and we treat ourselves to a small burger -with fries. The bun of the hamburger is black, because they've infused the dough with squid ink. An interesting concept, we agree. +with fries. The bun of the hamburger is black, because they've infused the dough with squid ink. An interesting concept, we agree. Marina +informs me on Signal that squid ink may taste fine, but the sound of it being in my hambuger bun is gross. -After lunch we have decided that we're not interesting in walking the city. I do note that it's 13:48 and in about 12 minutes today's ferry +After lunch we have decided that we're not interested in walking the city. I do note that it's 13:48 and in about 12 minutes today's ferry will leave for _Kiel_, and we want to check it out. Seeing large ships like this manouvre through the harbor is kind of cool. So we walk over the _Strandholmen_, some waterside building project, and it turns out to be a twisty fjord-esque walk. We then bee-line it over the dock just to get stuck behind a cargo building with a closed fence. But, although we're 5 minutes late, so is the captain of the vessel @@ -47,19 +48,20 @@ dock just to get stuck behind a cargo building with a closed fence. But, althoug Tier and Bolt. To Paul, that sounds like just the right amount of fun, and if we just hop on these guys and scoot over to the far side of the harbor, we can see the boat back out and leave the harbor. Dope! -{{< image src="/img/thumbnails/2022-09-10/IMG_5735.jpg" width="500px" float="right" >}} +{{< image src="/img/thumbnails/2022-09-10/IMG_5735.jpg" width="600px" float="right" >}} Off we scoot, but scooting while navigating with a phone is not my forté, so we see fields, dirt roads, some buildings and -some more roads, until eventually a sign _Huk Strand_ presents itself. We scoot there as fast as these little 20km/h scooters will let us, -to find that 5.2km and 25 minutes later, that the park is geofenced and scooters turn themselves off there. Parked the scooter, and ran -to the beach, only to see the boat as a sub-pixel image waaaay out in the water. So here's a picture of the Royal Palace instead. ☝️☝️☝️ +some more roads, at some point I'm not even sure we're in Norway anymore. Eventually we see a sign _Huk Strand_. We scoot there as fast as +these little 20km/h scooters will let us, to find that 5.2km and 25 minutes later, that the park is geofenced and scooters turn themselves +off there. Parked the scooter, and ran to the beach, only to see the boat as a sub-pixel image waaaay out in the water. So here's a picture +of the Royal Palace instead. ☝️☝️☝️ {{< image src="/img/thumbnails/2022-09-10/IMG_7788.jpg" width="300px" float="right" >}} We're having a lot of fun on the scooters though. We gently manouvre them out of the geofence and hop back on, scoot over to the Royal Palace and gardens, and see a bunch of really nice views. The palace itself is grandiose, the gardens have a set of sculptures in them, -designed by and made for kids. I really like _Munnben_ (the mouth with feet), and Paul prefers _Ansiktsløs mann_ (a guy without a face but -with a sock puppet). +designed by and made for kids. I really like _Munnben_ (the mouth with feet, see below), and Paul prefers _Ansiktsløs mann_ (a guy without +a face but with a green sock puppet). I really need to go to the bathroom at this point, and this is no longer a national park where trees are begging to be watered, so we scoot to our hotel. There, I notice that Google has an office **right across the street** so we should really check it out! It'd be nice to drink @@ -99,8 +101,9 @@ _Edamame_. Paul orders himself a _Deluxe Sushi/Sashimi_ plate (which is very de _Nikomi Udon_. This is among the best Udon I've ever had. Super tasty broth with lots of veggies, several different types of mushrooms, a scampi, thinly sliced beef, and (not too much a fan ..) squid rings. But, I nom it all, and it's delicious. -We make our way to the hotel, pay the parking fee for the night, and sign off. - +We make our way to the hotel, pay the parking fee for the night, and sign off. Tomorrow morning we'll have breakfast, charge the car here in +Oslo city (the charger is close by to the harbor), make our way to the Color Line docks at noon, in time for our departure at 14:00, at least +we know what the ship looks like, and then we're off to _Kiel_ in Germany. ## Pictures of the Day