Add Day 16: Bento to Lilyhammer

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+title: 'Day 16: Beito to Lillehammer'
+date: 2022-09-09T17:09:05+02:00
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+
+## Our trip today
+
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+It is an easy drive today for us. We decide to visit _Lillehammer_ which is a little bit east of here, but also affords us an easy route to
+_Oslo_ tomorrow, well in time to get the ferry to _Kiel_. The city Lillehammer is known to Paul, as he has organized an EuroBSD Conference
+here in 2019. It's less known to me, other than from the Netflix series _Lilyhammer_ which I found a very nice show to watch.
+
+Our trip starts after sleeping in (late) until 08:30 (normally not late for me, but terribly late for Paul). We grab our belongings, and
+have breakfast in the AirBnB. In the kitchen, Tonje is hanging out with Ana, who turns one today! I remembered :) We made the second half of
+our usual breakkie, although the eggs come out hard-boiled ("It's a product of nature after all", remarks Paul who sounds an awful lot like
+my dad all of the sudden). It doesn't matter, the taste is fine, and the orange juice is nice and pulpy.
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+The drive to _Lillehammer_ brings us through _Valdres_ and _Leira_, the latter town has a supercharger. Although we don't really have to
+charge (it's only 220km today), we still do it because we do have to have lunch, and we need to forrage. So we plug in the car at a
+decidedly more busy CCS-only Supercharger (yesssss!) and get our salad ingredients. I chop things, Paul and I eat things. The car completely
+charges to 420km, cuz, why not, and then we tell Tessa to navigate us to _Lillehammer_.
+
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+We arrive there at around 14:30 and our first stop is the Olympic park (the 1994 Winter Olympics were here). There's a ski jump slope which
+is currently open to the public. We walk up the 936 steps all the way to the top, our knees are coping better than we expected them to. The
+views up there are pretty great, but one thing we find peculiar: a kid, maybe 12 years old, is taking the chairlift up, in a jumping suite,
+and with overly long yellow skis. He proceeds to make two jumps down the slope, which is currently being watered and sporting green brushes.
+
+We take some videos including a slo-mo of him doing this. It's super odd to us to see (a) such a youngster and (b) somebody jumping in
+summer with zero snow/ice in sight, but perhaps for the locals this is all super normal, as nobody else seems to bat an eye.
+
+From here we make a small walk down to the Olympic village again. There's a geocache down there, which I fumble and don't find, but Paul
+lingers and pokes at it a bit more, ultimately the little box revealed itself and I logged it. Or, possibly, I could have logged it before I
+found it because I was going to jet -- although surely a geocacher like me would never do that, right?
+
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+Another place Paul remembers from a few years ago is _Maihaugen_, this is a recreated village with houses from all styles and ages, and
+serves to inform visitors how the Norwegians lived and live today. We see a few old churches, farmsteads with pigs and goats, one of which
+didn't seem to feel like they belonged with the herd, and was just hanging out _outside_ the pasture. We saw Per Gynt's old house, and then
+houses from each decade starting from 1920s all the way though to 2000s. These are actual houses which were built in and around
+_Lillehammer_, all of which were deconstructed, moved to this place, and rebuilt in original style and furnishing. Cool!
+
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+After this, we regroup at the hotel, Paul recommends a place to eat, and we go there: it's a pub called _Heim Gastropub_ and it has fair
+food and great beers. I drink their local _Heim NEIPA_, an IPA, and we order a shared starter of some cured meets and cheeses, Paul feels
+like fish'n'chips today, and I eat the Boeuf Bourguignon, which is simply called _Bøff_ here (easier to pronounce, and less French!)
+
+On the way back to the hotel, Paul takes a little detour, because he has a Plan&trade;. He's going to play a corny joke with the EuroBSD
+Conference organizers, and enthusiastically sends the groupchat a picture "Hey guys, I have arrived, when are you all joining?" but with a
+picture of him in front of the EuroBSDCon hotel from 2019, here in _Lillehammer_. Nobody seems to get the joke, and they all start recanting
+when they are going to arrive in _Vienna_. Oh well, the best laid plans. To make up for the detour, we get to find another geocache just in
+front of our hotel. There's a pretty cool little stream here, and it has a waterfall. Paul finds the cache before I do; we take a picture of
+it, because once again I did not bring a pen, and we then give our poor old legs a rest and stop walking.
+
+## What's next ?
+
+Back at the hotel, I watch a bit of TV as Paul visits the Sauna. We turn in around 22:00 or so, and tomorrow we make a short trip to Oslo, where
+I found a fancy hotel for us that is between the city center and the harbor where we'll fetch our Ferry the day after next.
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
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+    {{< gallery-photo fn="nodate/lilyhammer.jpg" caption="Did you know Steven van Zandt used to live here ?">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_5636.jpg" caption="We both dare to set our foot on the first (second) step ... ">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_5643.jpg" caption="... of 936 steps up the hill. Paul makes it!">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_5645.jpg" caption="An overview of the top ski jump ramp in Lillehammer">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_7752.jpg" caption="A kid slides down the ski jump ramp in Lillehammer">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_7757.jpg" caption="A beautiful view of Lillehammer from up here">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_7758.jpg" caption="A panoramic view of Lillehammer">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_5648.jpg" caption="Pim steps one foot on a gravel path- we know where this ends!">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_5650.jpg" caption="An old church at Maihaugen museum in Lillehammer">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_7762.jpg" caption="Paul faces the goat eye-to-eye">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_5653.jpg" caption="An old church at Maihaugen museum in Lillehammer">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_5654.jpg" caption="A 1920s house on display at Maihaugen musem in Lillehammer">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_5656.jpg" caption="An old steam train locomotive in Maihaugen">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_7768.jpg" caption="Pim twists knobs and dials in the steam train">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_5657.jpg" caption="Thune's #443 locomotive">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_5655.jpg" caption="A statue of Anders Sandvic in Lillehammer">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_5708.jpg" caption="Our apetizer plate at the Heim pub">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_5712.jpg" caption="Paul poses in front of the Scandic Lillehammer as a joke to EuroBSD Con">}}
+    {{< gallery-photo fn="2022-09-09/IMG_5714.jpg" caption="A waterfall just next to our hotel, where we found a geocache">}}
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