The picture shows a duck sweet dispenser and the packet of some Norwegian fruit gum type sweets in the shape of ski-ing men. Only in Norway?
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Gwen’s diary of the trip.
We started travelling on Saturday. We drove to Hirtshals, a town nearly at the top of Denmark from there we took the ferry to Oslo. At this time it was already evening. We took a taxi to our hotel, even though we could have taken a bus (no Norwegian cash – Ed). After settling in we went to find the station so that the next morning we would be able to find our way. A Chinese restaurant was to be the place where we filled our stomachs. Lovely: but too much for our sweetie-stuffed tummies! We did indeed find the station, although we had been tired when looking for it. After a few hours on the train we finally arrived. For lunch we had bread rolls with cheese and ham from the little local supermarket. Even though we have been there before, we had a little poke around to decide which slope to ski on and check for anything new. Dinner was a lovely buffet.
Up bright and early next morning. Well, nearly… Breakfast was also a buffet. Uhm! Luxury! Then it was off to the ski slopes. After hours of aching calves and wrists we stopped. I had finally gathered the courage to try a longer, bigger and steeper slope. Much more fun and more challenging! In the middle of the day we stopped for lunch: pizza buns and cakie-things from the bakery. Back at the hotel we had tea and played Cluedo. The dinner buffet was even better than the day before: prawns, smoked salmon, gammon, etc.
The day went almost as the first on skis. Even the lunch was the same! At this point, Mia had fallen 5 times, said she would never ski again and got back on her skis smiling!
The next day we got up at a leisurely time, had breakfast and went to the station. Mia was wearing her new boots that she had bought after skiing the day before. On the train, Mia and Mum played Cluedo, while I read a book. When we got to Næsby the train stopped and we waited for a good half hour before we were told that the electricity was down between there and Hønefoss. We waited another hour for the busses which would take us to Hønefoss. At Hønefoss there was a train waiting for us. We got to Oslo 2 hours late. We went shopping but found nothing of interest. We took a taxi to the ferry. On the ferry we had dinner and went to bed. The next morning we got off the ferry and then drove home.