Day 4 Oslo

The approach to Oslo is through a very lengthy fairly narrow approach which we learned today is called the Oslo fjord. We picked the pilot up at 2am this morning before docking around 7am. Sharon wax up early as she likes to see the approach, I usually enjoy about 10 mins on the way out before I nod off.

Again another glorious day, very lucky with the weather so far., shorts not been made redundant as yet. We docked at a different berth today so the approach to town was slightly different. Unfortunately Sharon managed a fall on concrete quayside, managed to scrape her knee and elbow but we returned to the ship and cleaned her up. She was a bit shaken but fine now - I’ll not make a Dr 😂😂

After the cleanup and a bit of a sit down, we decided to venture in to the town. A lovely modern town with a really buzzing atmosphere. We decided not to go up to the mountain today and we just ambled around the town. Stopped in a Scottish bar for a drink in the town itself which was very nice. We saw a side to the town we don’t normally see and again it was lovely. It’s quite a short dock as all aboard is 3.30pm but it was enough for us to see what we wanted and enjoy the port.

We had a late lunch and I realised that disaster had struck this morning and I omitted to have cake with my breakfast. I rectified the mistake with two lemon danishes after lunch which I’m sure makes up for the omission. The sail away is back down the reasonably narrow straight so we decided to sit on our balcony as we left and just enjoyed the cruise back south towards Denmark. We were treated to a couple of acrobats on jet skis who followed us out for about half an hour, they were quite entertaining, riding the waves with only one leg attached to the jetski, doing doughnuts and simply buggering about. They did earn a huge round of applause from the ship before taking a bow and turning back. Then you wouldn’t believe it but a dolphin 🐬 popped out of the sea and was playing right between the 2 jet skis as we left. A very entertaining sail-away. The captain wasn’t amused with our jet skis entertainers though. He was most put out with the noise they were making and that his announcement was delayed by 30 minutes because of them !!

Decided to try the hot tub tonight, success, we had an hour or so watching the sun disappear as we sailed out of the fjord, I would say, it was quite a bit warmer than the other night as it didn’t make you think you were going to die when we got out. We were chatting to a guy from Houston, interesting fella, been around the world a bit originally from South America.

Beef wellington for dinner tonight, Sharon had bits and bobs of all sorts really, rice, Thai mince, stir fried noodles, spinach - I’ll just stop there 😂😂. It was Kate getting dark tonight, around 9.15 when the light finally faded.Baca lagi