Pim van Pelt
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title: "Week 9, Wednesday: Oslo to Zurich"
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date: 2024-09-25T21:55:00+02:00
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{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/timeoutmelodies.png" alt="Credit: TimeOutMelodies, YouTube" >}}
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Today was mostly consumed the traveling from Norway back to Switzerland. Our flight today is at
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14:00 which gives us ample time to sleep in. We get out of bed at around 10:00, pack our bags and
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have a good breakfast at our Thon hotel. We debate doing something in the City, there's still a few
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more things we could might maybe see, but all four of our feet are not really in the walking mood,
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so we decide to simply go to the airport early and hang out there.
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Fun story: we could not manage to find the FLY ticket vending machine! We did find the actual trains
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on the platform, but not the tix... and we also caught the local public transport company on a
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little bit of a fib. On their website as well as in their mobile phone app, they say "one ticket for
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ll public transportation". Except FLY that is. That train is not available in the app :) But, not to
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worry, we can also take the normal regional train which is half the price and only two minutes
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later, and what's more: the tickets are available in the _Ruter_ app. Huzzah for failure!
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We take one more selfie in front of the Oslo _Sentralstasjon_ (English: Main Station), and then our
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train takes about half an hour or so, and stops in Lillestrøm before hitting the airport
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train station. It's raining a little bit, but that's OK because we're all indoors from here on.
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Since we'll be landing at 16:30 or so, we do decide to take a light lunch. Marina eats a Lasagna and
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I take a salad and a Ramen. For airport food, they're actually pretty great. We find our gate and
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get into the Embraer E195, a smaller plane than on the way out here. When we take our seat, I hear
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an English on the cabin intercom that sounds awfully familiar, and I prompt Marina that I think we
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have a Dutch crew. She is not too sure.
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A little bit later, the first officer does his blurb on the flight today, and I again hear a pretty
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clear indication of Dutchism. Marina is still not sure.
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Before takeoff, though, the flight attendant comes round with the classic swiss chocolates in the
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basket. He reaches over to me, I take one (which I normally don't do, bceause I do not like sweet
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chocolate), and I say "Dankje!", and the guy responds "Alsje!", and BINGO. I prod Marina who also
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heard it - there is no more doubt left: this mannerism to answer Dutch with Dutch, but moreover
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to shorthand "Alsje" instead of "Alstublieft" is typically only done by native speakers. I nailed
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it!
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Our flight is two and a half hours and overall pleasant. We're seated in row 34 on a micro airplane
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that has 35 rows of two seats. After we land, getting out is somewhat more of an issue. It takes a
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long time, particularly for Marina, who really needs to go to the bathroom, poor thing. But, after
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deplaneing, we are very quickly City-side and we both have a little tinkle.
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We could really use a normal, that is to say homecooked meal for once. We go to Migros at the
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airport and buy an _AGV_ which is a household abbreviation for _Aardappelen, Groente, Vlees_
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(English: Potatoes, Vegetables, Meat): sausage, potatoes and sautéed mangold with onions;
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Quinn, Marina and I all pitch in with the prep work, and we decide to +1 the mean with gravy. As
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much as I like going out to dinner, I really really like a nice AGV from time to time :)
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In the evening we hold on to Norway by watching a few episodes of _Lilyhammer_, a hilarious series
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on Netflix. Steven van Zandt plays a east coast gangster who is in witness protection and relocates
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to the town of Lillehammer, Norway. It turns out, you can take the gangster out of new york, but you
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can't stop him from still being gangster. I love this series so much!
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As Marina goes to bed early, I spend a few more hours downstairs doing some _digital gardening_.
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Tomorrow, I get to re-pack my bags and head off to Paris for FRNOG'40.
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## Pictures of the Day
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-25/IMG_1579.JPG" caption="Our modest hotel room with packed bags. The nice thing was: it was really in the smack center of Oslo. The less good thing: construction from 06:30 onwwards ..." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-25/IMG_1581.JPG" caption="Our last selfie in front of Oslo main station, before heading off to the airport" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-25/IMG_1582.JPG" caption="Our lunch: Lasagna, Ramen and a salad. Not bad for airport food!" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-25/IMG_1584.JPG" caption="Our micro airplane is an Embraer E195 flying LX1211 to Zurich, Switzerland" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-25/IMG_1586.JPG" caption="The evening entertainment back at home continues to cherish Norway: Lilyhammer" >}}
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