Norway in a Nutshell

Rick Steeves says that anyone that doesn't see the fjords of Norway should have his passport revoked.

With that and other people's recommendation, I signed up for a day trip through the fjords from Oslo to Bergen (from the far east side of Norway to the West Coast and back).

Norway is very beautiful, the fjords are very beautiful. But very reminicent of B.C. so I cannot help but take it for granted. For me I thought it looked like Vancouver Island, another Canadian guy Lorne from Calgary behind me thought it looked like the interior. We later met a Canadian girl Ann-Claude (from Toronto) who said it looked like (actually I don't remember what she said). The three of us later met a Japanese girl (Maki from Osaka) who said it looked like some places in Japan.

From all of that, it is very beatiful in a way that might remind you of a beatiful place you might already know.

That night I, Ann-Claude and Maki went for Indian food and took the night train back to Oslo. The night train was a pretty wild experience. You know that dream state you are not quite asleep, but your mind gets all of these crazy ideas and makes these funny stories? Maybe it is just me... But anyway the train put me in that state for about 3 hours straight... Pretty trippy. I was able to sleep for some solid hours and that was good considering. I wish there was a shower though - I was stinky boy for the rest of the day after arriving in Oslo at around 6AM.