Feelings: Peaceful, Happy.
Rain meant that we spent a lot of time in the car—as the mileage attests. Lots of time in the car isn’t the best way to spend a driving holiday (ironically). Add to that a number of wrong turns and confusing road signs. Pop in a lack of places to stop for a coffee or lunch. (We stopped in a tiny town with a knife and fork symbol which turned out to be a corner of a handcraft shop that served coffee and cake. It was quite bizarre—not the coffee and cake, the shop—because of its isolation to size ratio. There was a lot of stuff there. Where had it all come from? There was so much craft there that they had been able to divide the room into colour coded areas. Lunch ended up supermarket supplied, which is fine) Just to be on the safe side, why don’t you have us get hopelessly lost on the outskirts of Oslo (which is where we were purposefully aiming not to go). Then give us only the option of an expensive hotel for the night (nice, but expensive). You could understand then, can’t you, that the feelings we started with this morning may have, well, inverted!
But, just on the bright side, we are now in Norway. The road signs are yellow and white instead of green and blue, the lines in the centre of the road are yellow instead of white, the tight corner signs are yellow and black rather than the Swede’s patriotic yellow and blue, and the way the road signs point is almost one hundred per cent guaranteed to send you in the opposite direction. Oops, seemed to have strayed back over from the bright side again at the end there.
We had dinner in the restaurant next door to the hotel, took a leisurely walk around the shopping centre, abutilised (using something to the level of abuse—just made that one up) the hotel’s wi-fi and watched ‘The Haunting’ which has great hair-raising moments in it. Today was a day where travel is f the sort which cocoons you in a limbo of ‘services’—keeping you one step removed from the reality of the place in which you are travelling.
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