Oslo Day 1 - A whirlwind trip
Juan and I left the office at 15:00 on Tuesday afternoon, having only just realised that we were arriving at an airport that was almost two hours outside of Oslo city centre we prepared ourselves for a very long journey.
We made our way to Liverpool street tube station to get the Stansted Express to the airport. This journey took us an hour. We got to the airport in good time and checked ourselves in. We were travelling on Ryan Air so we had major hand luggage restrictions. Juan was carrying nothing extra but I had a bag. After queuing up to go through security for ages we got to the front only to find that my bag didn’t fit into the required space. It was just a little too wide.
So now we had to go and find another bag so that Juan could carry some of the contents of my bag. Even though we were surrounded by shops no one was willing to give us a plastic bag so in the end I put on all three tops that were in my handbag. It was a really warm day so this was unpleasant but it meant that my bag would fit in the required space. Luckily we didn’t have to queue up again and we made our way right to the front. Bag fitted in perfectly this time round and so we got through security and made our way to waiting area.
We went to buy a couple of sandwiches to keep us going for the long journey ahead. Our flight was to Torp airport which was on time. The flight itself was quick and pleasant and on our arrival at Oslo Torp airport we had to made our way to the Torpekspressen which would take us right into the city centre. That bus journey took just under two hours so we arrived in the city centre at just after one in the morning.
Along our travels Juan had noticed a couple of fellow Spaniards that had been our flight, funny thing was that they were staying in the same hostel we were so we organised to share a taxi with them to our hostel. We arrived really late and we were totally exhausted. We went straight to our room and headed right to bed.
