Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:07:10 -0000 From: davehinznopsamcop.net Subject: Re: Back from our Scandinavian holiday (incl. Saab Museum)
Paul Halliday <pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk> pressed random keys until the following was produced: > Wow! You Swedes have a beautiful country and we only visited two of your > towns! I'll stick to the car experiences here, but no doubt I'll upload > other comment to my website. (I missed this originally, have been playing with network feeds and building new servers for my personal network). > The museum, as expected, was fantastic. (snip) > The highlight was definitely the 92001. Did you get close to or in it? It's interesting to note how not-straight the (hand-made) panels are. > Onto Oslo from there. What a culture shock. Having spent five days in sheer > heaven, Oslo was like being hit with a concrete slab! I don't know why I > hated it so much - perhaps I had fallen in love with Sweden, or perhaps it > was so much like the UK. (shrug) It's a city... > Once we'd got used to the culture shock, Oslo is not that bad - very brutal, > and I mean that architecturally. I though I'd find Sweden to be quite > foreign and have more affinity with the Norwegians, culturally, but it > really was the other way round. The viking ship museum was amazing - thanks > Hinz. Isn't that just amazing? > The building was just as good as the ships and made a perfect setting > for them. Yes. Hopefully that makes the trip to Oslo worthwhile; it certainly did for me. > We adore Sweden and we'll definitely be going back. The Saab factory was not > open for visitors until later in August, so perhaps we'll see that next > time. We're already planning a Gothenburg to Trollhattan to Uppsala trip for > next time, but any suggestions of other places to visit along the way would > be appreciated ... Fjords. Go see some fjords. Newcastle -> Bergen by boat, Bergen -> Oslo by train, takes you along the (er...Hardangerfjord I think? Big and impressive, whichever one it is). The boat from Newcastle is an overnight, I seem to recall. Have you driven a Fjord lately? Dave
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