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Well I've been here nearly three weeks now, since the Saturday after school shut.

At least, I should say for the most part of the three weeks, as Arne n me went a quick trip to Oslo the day after I arrived. It wasn't just a sightseeing tour, we had a purpose - we had tickets to see The Boss! (That's Bruce Springsteen for those o you not oot o nappies.) The concert was great, really good to see the man himself in action, and I liked Oslo too. (Though obviously not as much as I like Bergen. Have to say that, stayin where I'm stayin, you understand....)

On the way there we had to drive through a really really long tunnel. I think maybe the longest one in, well, maybe Northern Europe? It was about 40km long, and had these blue thingys in the middle, which were supposed to make you feel less claustrophobic. (My spell checker says thats a correct spelling but I'm having doubts..)




We stayed at a very very high hotel. Can't use the name of it on a 主播大秀 site I think, but well, it was high. (I could nearly see Unst from our room!)





Ok, you can't really see Unst, but that furthest away white blob on the left is the ski jump that they used for the Olympics or somethin many moons ago. We had a closer look on our last day there.



We also visited the Kon Tiki museum, and those of you who are a little older than myself may remember a crazy norski man sailing rather too far for comfort in a raft-like thingy. His name was Thor Heyerdahl, and he did it to prove the connections between the continents. He did at least four trips on such craft, each of them remarkable achievements in their own way




Last weekend we had to go a quick hop across to Storbritania (that's the UK to us Brits) for the purpose of going to my eldest daughter's new school's orientation weekend. (I'm lookin at my apostrophies here and wonderin...) I think I mentioned her school before, but in case you missed it, she's been accepted into a United World Colleges school to do her last year or two of school. The one she has been allocated is in India, and she is extremely excited about it. We met the other Brit who has got a place at the same school, a boy from London. It was nice to meet him and his parents, they're really nice folk.

Anyhoo, the englandshire trip was great too, and we were very grateful to Helga for coming with us. She knew exactly where to go, and amazingly could tell us where to turn even before we reached a junction! A huge bonus for me, a girl who lives on an island with a population of 500, and for Arne, a man that naturally drives on the wrong side o the road.

Helga is, of course, GPS, or SatNav as it's sometimes known.



This is a pic of Helga taking us a very welcome detour of that car park otherwise known as the M6. Her other talent was in predicing speed cameras with great accuracy. Arne reckons Helga saved us a fortune.

We stayed in a lovely peedie Inn in Bewdley, right on the riverbank, and it had the whole low beam thing goin on, Arne had to duck a lot. I think next time we go to england we take a crash helmet with us.



This is the view from one of the windows in our room. A bit different from the Oslo view!

This next shot is Bewdley.






On way back to the airport we took a scenic route through Stratford, Warwick, and Cambridge. I think there was a lot more besides, but you know, Helga was in charge and I was just doing as I was told. She did let us stop for a while in Cambridge though.




This was some peedie chapel thing that one o those English kings built a while ago. A bit before Bruce Springsteen and Kon Tiki even.

Arne liked it though, it was high enough that he didn't have to duck to get in the door.

This Saturday my four kids arrive, and we're going sailing. They come straight from the airport to the boat, and won't see dry land for, uh, at least, ok I wanted to shock you there and say something crazy like 5 months, but no, we're just going to meet up with some friends a bit further sooth. These would be the same friends from my previous blog, who sailed together with us on the Shetland Race, on the famous and beautiful Fortito. (Ok, Arne told me to write that, he's pouring over my shoulder here.)

Got to go, I have some stovsuging to do.

(PS, there was a problem publishing this post, so it's been delayed, and my kids have been here for a few days now. We're havin a ball, swimming, boating, fishing, all the stuff you do in the sea, and in great weather too. Update soon!)