We flew out on the evening of Sat. Jul. 26, with a few hours' layover in Amsterdam. The flight from Toronto to Amsterdam was in a nice new plane with KLM - personal tv screens for everyone, with digital movies and tv shows - I took the opportunity to catch up on girlie movies I hadn't seen yet (Enchanted and 27 Dresses). The chocolate bar I bought in Amsterdam had just about melted by the time we landed in Norway, as our plane was surprisingly warm the entire time. As we flew over Oslo the pilot announced that it was 30 degrees Celsius - everyone in the plane gasped in astonishment. This mini heat wave would continue for the next six days of our trip.
We arrived in Oslo early evening, tired from the flight, but we immediately headed out to the university to figure out how Mark would get to his conference. After a wrong turn on the subway we made it there in time for the advance registration. Then, famished and headachy, I caved in to the lure of the first restaurant we found on the tourist strip - T.G.I.Friday's. How lame. But my thirty-dollar club sandwich hit the spot (and was big enough that I could save half for lunch the next day - yay for tiny hotel room bar fridges!).
Early impressions of Oslo: expensive food (but we were mentally prepared for that), little car traffic, lively pedestrian-only streets, sufficient English signage and speakers to make figuring things out fairly easy, brutally hot hotel room (you can hardly expect them to have air conditioning with their climate...).
Photo: view of Oslo from the new opera house.
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