Dave’s brother is staying with us at the moment so we’ve been visiting more of the tourist attractions today. We caught the public ferry out to Langoynes Island today. The ferries around Oslo harbour are a bargain as you get a good look at the archipelago as well as being taken somewhere nice and car free, all for the price of a bus ride.
It was a lovely sunny day so the ferry ride was very pleasant, although the railings on deck weren’t all that child friendly so I spent most of the trip inside with Emma. First impressions of the island were good - lots of grass and some nice long beaches. However, having walked across to the longest beach we spotted the geese - a whole large flock of them. Unfortunately, they seemed to have left droppings all over the beach and the grass making looking after Emma pretty difficult. We managed to clear enough space on the beach to keep her happy for about half an hour and then decamped and got the boat back to the city.
Back on dry land, we had lunch under a tree by the castle and then wandered around that and the palace gardens until Emma woke up (far too soon!). Dave and I thought we’d better head back then, leaving Michael to visit the Viking Ships. He has a 3-day Oslo pass and is definitely making the most of it. With the free shrimp lunch and boat tour he’s booked in on tomorrow (normally 355 kroner), the 420 kroner for the pass definitely seems good value for money.
[...] A quiet week on this blog generally means a busy week in real life and that was certainly the case over the past seven days. My brother was over visiting last weekend. We left him to do most of the tourist attractions on his own (indeed, he did a few that we haven’t yet) but we joined him for a couple of trips out as Christine has already reported. [...]