Oslo Central

After a quiet evening and morning in with some takeaway street food, I headed out for a walk around the Oslo opera house before my train. It was wet enough that areas of the opera house roof had modest flooding, and the cool air, about five or six Celsius was bracing. The opera house roof offers an excellent view of the harbour; Crown Seaways, sister to Pearl Seaways was berthed at the DFDS terminal.

I took lunch at the same Afro-Carribbean food stand I gotten my takeaway the previous night; a tasty, but not over spicy, jerk jackfruit with bulgar wheat, a tangy well seasoned salad and plantains. Then it was off to the train station, I took a quick look around the mall of Oslo before heading to the platform. Shunting the train involved some proper old-school railway shenanigans, with a guard stood in the open gangway of the last car to guiding the train to a halt over the radio.Read more