May 31 - Oslo

May 31 - Oslo


Just a travel day today, Oslo to the airport.  It’s a very easy train journey, and, with just one stop along the way, pretty quick. It’s also relatively inexpensive (for over here) with seniors rates, one of the very few benefits of being old!  On that point though, I’m not sure that JEM actually looks ‘Over-67’! 😆


Once at the hotel there’s lots of queues, queues for form filling, queues for RAT tests, queues for hotel registration etc etc however, we finally got booked in and unpacked and now we’re nearly there. We’ve been a little bit nervous lately about getting the ‘dreaded lurgy’ so it’s good that we’ve got to this stage covid-free. We’d actually booked the cruise nearly three years ago so being tested positive at this late stage would have meant getting ‘bumped’ for who knows how much longer, it must be celebration time! 🥂 (on that point I had a pint of Carlsberg with dinner tonight, A$22!!!)


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