Unless you happen to have be riding the night train into a city arriving at 22:30 on a Saturday is not fun. After traveling for sixteen hours I want a shower and a bed not to have to deal with a city of drunks and beggars. That's the initial opinion I had when having to walk along Karl Johans Gate, dodging packs of drunks and rose sellers, buskers ( Read more... )

Right it's time I finished this thing. I only intended to spend a short while writing and then move onto my CV, never expected it to turn into an epic ( Read more... )

Of all the experiences of Norway I had, the culinary one would be the poorest. Coffee and cake was probably the best and resided on the food equivalent of a plateau above a fjord of poor meals. Flåm had a couple of tourists feeding posts of which I may have picked the weakest; themed with several train carriages for eating in I was served with a ( Read more... )

So after 12hours of travelling i'd arrived in Flåm, had little help from the tourist information, still ill and with nothing else to do...

I did receive a local walking map from them. My determination to do a days walking was little short of unstoppable; scanning the map I noticed that walk to Brekkefossen waterfall coincided with the start of the ( Read more... )

Thanks for the comments yesterday, perhaps I was a little overly dramatic but sometimes it's nice to just have a big panic. Gets it out of you. Amusingly a day at work has done me the world of good and feel much more positive ( Read more... )

Don't think I really needed this morning off but it's certainly been relaxing. From 17:00 on Saturday night it's been amazingly fun and bloody knackering weekend, my only disappointment is that I wasn't fit enough to do all the locations ( Read more... )

Been a busy week for me so haven't really had a chance to ramble aboot Grrmany. Had to fire off a CV for a job, which involved writing my CV in one night, then huge amounts of cooking, cleaning, loading photos and washing clothes. So now it's Thursday night and i've got a wee bit of spare time ( Read more... )

Wow. That would be my one word summary of the past six or so days ( Read more... )

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I managed to locate the BBC article with statistics about the long-term economy. 'Borrowing set to soar in slowdown'. Now given that the government wrongly predicted how much they would need to borrow this year and that it is unlikely that govt. borrowing will drop off shortly, we could be in for a large deficit for a number of years ( Read more... )