Quick update from Madrid,
I have been slacking on blogging for a couple of reasonsç
1.) Computers have been hard to come by and computers with SD readers have been non existant.
2.) We have been traveling every couple of days without much in the way of "down time". Our one down day was in Alesund. A town with no cyber cafes which you can blame on Scandinavian prosperity and a low immigrant population.
This is kind of a reader's digest version of events
We started off in Barcelona for two days before flying to Stockholm. We met up with Vivi and Bella. Dad stayed with Vivi back in the 70s when he was backpacking. Bella then visited us in 94. We spent time with her family and toured Stockholm (which is a beautiful capital city...). It was pretty cool to see how Swedish families live. Lukas and Linnea were fun to hang around with. They constantly were telling us things in English by running over to whisper to Bella. "Joey, Emily...the flying cheese!"
From Stockholm we went to Norway via Goteborg. We had three days in Oslo including their national day Sytennde Mai (17 of May) which was fun to attend. From there we took a mindblowing train ride to Bergen. Our time there was marked by exceptionally good weather a rather rare feat. It is the rainiest city in the world with 310 rainy days a year.
From Bergen we went to Alesund via a meandering path to Oslo (that is how all the trains connect since going across the fjords isn´t really feasible). While we didn't do too much there (we came to visit the island of Runde which because it wasn't fully summer meant that ferries had reduced schedules and it simply wasn't possible). The ride there was spectacular. We came back to Oslo two days ago and spent our last day in the city checking out the Kontiki museum and the bizarre Frogner Park.
Which brings us to Madrid, though not easily. Our location is only about a 15 euro ride from Barajas and the taxi drivers don't like to make it. To the city center they make 100 euros and they have been waiting for an hour or more for the ride.
For now we are working our way to Orgiva, just outside of Granada to visit my friend Joe and his wife Kerry.
We'll post pictures as the opportunity arises but for now a textual "until next time"
'Sta luego,
Joe and Em
2 comments:
Hey guys,
Looking forward to seeing to pictures of the scenery from the train trip between Oslo and Bergen and pictures from your visit with our Swedish "cousins."
Glad you got over to KonTiki museum and that you had good weather in fjord country.
Dadman
For the life of me, I can't think of any situation which would require the words, "the flying cheese," to be translated from Swedish into English.
Sounds like a great trip.
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