I’m Ron Bergen-dy?

Today we made it to Norway, finally. We are here for 10 days, in a few different places and won’t be leaving until 2026. But I am getting ahead of myself and I probably need to take a step or two back, to the Bergenning.
A few months ago we decided that we wanted to do something different for Christmas, to spend it somewhere new. We settled on Norway because we are hoping to see some snow and do some skiing, plus we have been here in summer and loved it so why not try it in winter. Aah the best laid plans of September. One thing we couldn’t have predicted at the time was illness, and unfortunately for the best part of the past week Jess and I have been knocked out with flu, with mine being a particularly severe case of the ‘man’ variant. We kept thinking/hoping we might be improving and although we have a little it seems that any time we have expended any energy at all it just knocks us out. This meant packing and organising didn’t go smoothly but we did manage to get ourselves to Paris a couple of days ago, at which point we basically collapsed in a heap. The girls mostly managed to carry on, despite Lily, Ruby and Olivia each suffering from varying levels of illness as well.
That all brought us to 5.30 this morning when we were rudely awoken, me by an alarm and everyone else by me. It was an early flight and there was nothing for it but to just get on with things and get on the way to the airport. The airport was navigated fairly easily, and before we knew it we were airborne and enjoying a very smooth flight thanks to our female skipper. On arrival in Bergen there was the most amazing smell of bacon wafting through the airport making us realise we were hungry, so a quick Tram Tim Tam was both alliterative, affirming and axactly what the doctor ordered. It felt good to be back in Norway, which is just a visually appealing country. We even felt like we were starting to feel a bit better. We got to our accommodation and it seems quite nice, although we have to make up our own beds which seems to be a Norwegian thing and is slightly annoying. We had to head out to get some food, we managed to find a bakery and had some tasty sandwiches, after finding a bank where we could get a loan to be able to afford to eat out, it is a notoriously expensive country. Then a bit of a stroll to work off the food and a book shop with an English section to amuse the girls. A supermarket to pick up some food for dinner was all that was left within our energy levels, plus it was almost 3 and the daylight was running out. A fairly relaxing rest of the day, with some K-pop, Emily in Paris and intermittent napping, in no particular order. With the last ounces of energy remaining I whipped up a very tasty pasta, made our bed, wrote this blog and snacked on a few pre-Christmas cookies. Bed is not far off, we can have a lie in tomorrow.Læs mere