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Duncan Grant Europe & UK
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- Aug 8, 2019, 8:03pm
- ⛅ 19 °C
- Altitude: 10 m
- Norway Oslo Skøyen 59.92001, 10.6826259°55’12” N 10°40’57” E
Day 33
Gothenburg
August 8, 2019 in Norway ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Today it was breakfast in Denmark, lunch in Sweden and dinner in Norway !
We left the shores of Denmark on the ferry taking us across the Kattegat waters to Gothenburg. A major city in Sweden suitated on the west coast. We love to associate Sweden with Volvo cars and IKEA. Gothenburg is suited on the country's West coast. An important seaport, it is known for its Dutch style canals and leafy boulevards.
We made our ferry crossing in perfect sunshine which accompanied us the entire day. As we approached the Swedish coast at Gothenburg we sailed along an archipelago that gave us some breathing views.Read more
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Duncan Grant Europe & UK
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- Aug 8, 2019, 8:51pm
- ⛅ 18 °C
- Altitude: 10 m
- Norway Oslo Skøyen 59.92004, 10.6826559°55’12” N 10°40’58” E
Day 33
Sweden to Norway
August 8, 2019 in Norway ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
We have now realised that Scandinavian people are certainly a genitically blessed race-so many beautiful people!!!
The standard car seems to be a Volvo, Audi, BMW, or Mercedes, and the modernTesla cars.
Norway is known as the Swiss cheese country due to the number of roadway tunnels. The roadway infrastructure is phenomenal with its tunnels and well constructed roads and interchange systems.
The discovery of oil and gas in the North Sea in the 1950s to 1960s, made possible a huge contribution to infrastructure development, and impact on this once poor country, thus allowing funds to develop roads, tunnels and other significant infrastructure.
The long trip from Gothenburg to Oslo took us through prime rural country with splendid crops of wheat, barley and canola, and paddocks of freshly mown pasture and others of recently baled hay and silage. As we approached Oslo the country changed to hilly to mountainous, combined with beautiful valleys, also some areas were heavily treed and forested.Read more
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Duncan Grant Europe & UK
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- Aug 9, 2019, 8:10am
- ⛅ 14 °C
- Altitude: 10 m
- Norway Oslo Skøyen 59.92006, 10.6825859°55’12” N 10°40’57” E
Day 34
Oslo
August 9, 2019 in Norway ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Oslo is the capital city of Norway, sitting on Norway's southern coast. It is famous for green spaces and museums. The streets are vibrant and trendy. We visited the town hall and a guide told us of the Nazi occupation in the city and the difficulties the local people faced.
We saw the hall where the Nobel peace prize is awarded and visited the gardens surrounding the Royal palace. We were told of the fate of magnificent white building that was taken over by the Nazi and used as their headquarters, today it is the foreign affairs building. It was wonderful to see people playing table tennis in the people's space in front of this very structure, now free from its terrible past. Oslo plans to have the city center completely free of cars over the next year in so doing making free walking space for the people and development of green corridors within the city.Read more
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