* My future husband *
Landing in Oslo after hours and hours of travelling was one of the best moments I have ever experienced. After years of dreaming of being in Norway, I was finally here and I could not be happier. Armed with my cases, and Norwegian phrase book, I tried my hardest to navigate through the airport to make my way to the city centre. I ran into a group of retirees heading up to Svalbard and between the five of us, we made it to Oslo!
Being the poor solo traveller I am, I thought it would be a marvellous idea to walk from the station to my hostel - long story short, the torrential rain didn't ruin my camera equipment, but I was soaked from head to toe!
Once I checked in I made my first encounter with the creepy-40-year-old Swedish man I was sharing a dorm with, and he was half naked. So I locked away my luggage and ran out of there!
I spent the first day wandering the fortress on the harbour, and just looking around the city! It was so surreal! The bikes, the greenery, the atmosphere was like nothing I had ever experienced. What really got to me was that I would eat dinner at a restaurant past 10pm, and the streets were still packed! The sun doesn't set until super late, and the streets were alive even past sunset!
That next day, I ate my very Norwegian brown cheese, butter, and strawberry jam before back out in the city! I spent the day falling in love with statues, crying in the Nobel prize museum, and writing letters in the park behind the Royal Palace while eating jordbær, before eating at my favourite Norwegian restaurant Olivia's!
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