Soo, we took a night train from Bergen to Oslo. I didn’t get a great night’s sleep between the drunk guy walking up and down the aisle and the sunrise at 3 am, but we got to Oslo bright and early and had a great day walking around.

One of the highlights was a trip out to Holmenkollen, where there is a massive ski jump that they used in the 1994 Lillehammer olympics, and a sweet ski museum under the jump. We climbed about 8 million steps to the top of the jump, and it looked like it would take some balls to go off it on a pair of skis, a pair of balls i do not possess. Norway seems to have invented skiing, and has it as its national sport, which was pretty cool. Too bad our sport is football. blech.

We also took a ferry to see the Fram, a MASSIVE boat out on this peninsula that they took on 3 exbiditions to the North and south poles in 1910 or sometime. Once it got icelocked and floated in the Arctic ocean for 3 years. Talk about “cabin fever.” Luckily they were equipped with enough crap for 12 people to stay on it for 5 years. Sheesh!!

Berlin is cool, there are a lot of museums and huge buildings, lots of beer which is cheaper than soda in some cases, and the weather, thanks to us, was beautiful. Tomorrow its a bike tour of the city. Woohoo!

Nexte halt, Leipzig!

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