| Saturday, 18 December, 2004 |
| After arriving from the airport & checking in to the hotel I went for a walk around the city centre. I ended up by taking a long walk around the Akershus Fortress complex taking in the beautiful sunset over the Fjord before heading back to the hotel and d |
| Sunday, 19 December, 2004 |
| After a very comfortable night's sleep and a very large and filling breakfast I headed out. As the morning was so sunny (not a cloud in the sky, not a breath of a breeze & only -2°C!!) I decided to head up into the hills (mountains) above Oslo and to the |
| Monday, 20 December, 2004 |
| Virtually the whole day was spent out in Bygdøy. First stop was the Norsk Folk museum, a collection of over 200 traditional buildings that have been rebuilt on the site. One of the most impressive is the Stave church, one of the few left. |
| Tuesday, 21 December, 2004 |
| Dawn and I'm already up and about and on a day when there is snow in the air, going up the side of a mountain!! A couple off stops down the hill from Voksenkollen is Holmenkollen, home to the first purpose built ski-jump in Norway & also home to the ski m |
| Wednesday, 22 December, 2004 |
| Just enough time to quickly pop down to Aker Brygge to take a couple of photos of the fortress and town hall. |
| Wednesday, 28 May, 2014 |
| Bags collected we headed over to the flybussen into town and walked the short distance to the hotel… |
| Thursday, 29 May, 2014 |
| After the first night’s sleep with actual darkness for several days, and a hearty breakfast, we headed down to Aker Brygge to pick up the Museum boat out to Bygdøy… |
| Friday, 30 May, 2014 |
| Breakfast was a slightly more complex affair as the hotel was obviously struggling to cope with the number of guests all wanting breakfast at the same time and there was quite a long wait before we were able to get a table… |
| Saturday, 31 May, 2014 |
| Another disjointed breakfast that was possibly even busier than the previous mornings… |
| Sunday, 01 June, 2014 |
| Breakfast was a slightly calmer affair so we were able to get a table straight away, and after packing, leaving the bags at the hotel and checking out, we headed back down to the Town Hall… |
| Friday, 01 December, 2017 |
| I’d been working at home and had to make a bit of a dash across London to get to the airport in time… |
| Saturday, 02 December, 2017 |
| The hotel was clearly designed for conferences… |
| Sunday, 03 December, 2017 |
| After another filling breakfast and checking out I headed back down to Aker Brygge… |
| Monday, 29 May, 2023 |
| The journey wasn’t quite the same as the previous day as the driver took a few diversions to avoid some heavy traffic on the E18… |
| Tuesday, 30 May, 2023 |
| Final check-out from a hotel completed we were aiming to catch the tram back down to Aker Brygge to pick up the ferry out into the islands… |