Saturday, 21st
We had our train to Oslo today at 1 something in the afternoon. The station was about 10 minutes away from hostel, so we had most of the morning to ourselves.
Early morning after a nice hot shower and a breakfast of hot tea, cake, ham, cheese, mustard and mayonnaise sandwiches we stepped out in the warm sunlight. We strolled down empty streets, crossing colorful walls, following our map towards the palace. We passed by a statute of err 3 ladies, I posed one for the camera too. We walked through closed shops with brilliantly decorated windows. Lovely lamps, clothes, decorative adorned the windows
Suddenly in the maze of streets, out of nowhere emerged the Amalienborg palace. A lovely example of Rococo architecture. A bright green dome, surrounded by four identical facades.
After spending some time with our mouths open and clicking some touristy pictures we proceeded towards the Strøget. This is the most happening shopping area and Europe's longest pedestrian street. I think you would get everything here from a pin to designer clothes. As we were approaching the H&M mall, we were suddenly surrounded by a group of ISKCON followers. They dressed in their traditional garb singing hare krishna which sure was music to the ears. These people had travelled from our India to sing and dance and praise the lord. There was a lovely girl named Mayapur Chandrika in the group. She shared her story from a village of India. It was interesting.
H&M mall was very interesting because on display was a pair of trousers for about 30 euros, the exact ones that I was wearing, bought from a Delhi flea market for about 2 euros.
We bought some Chinese takeaway of noodles, shrimps and chicken for our onward journey and started towards the hostel. We were now quite far from the hostel and had to take a bus back. As luck would have it, we had changed all the danish kroner in the morning for euros and had few left as mementos. A bus came and the driver, a lady (imagine!) did not have change for euros. We made the most silliest and upset faces and showed us all our change (including few Indian rupees), seeing that she just let us travel like that. God bless her.
We reached our hostel, picked our luggage and moved towards the station. The train as scheduled left at 1pm and few minutes exact. On route we entertained ourselves with tea and the Chinese takeaway. This was a long journey as we would reach Oslo only about 9 pm.
The sun had still not set in Oslo when we reached. As we were exiting the station and approaching the information booth (our lifeline) for directions to the Anker hostel, G started feeling sick. I quickly managed a sickness bag and gave it to G. As G sat at a corner of the station, I went and changed euros into swedish kroner and figure out the directions to the hostel.
By the time I came back G was a little better and we walked with our backpacks towards the hostel. We checked in this large warm & cozy room with wooden bunk beds and really comfortable bedding, with an attached washroom. G blamed the pedestrian food, had some medicine, lost and found some jewelery and we called it a night.
We had our train to Oslo today at 1 something in the afternoon. The station was about 10 minutes away from hostel, so we had most of the morning to ourselves.
Early morning after a nice hot shower and a breakfast of hot tea, cake, ham, cheese, mustard and mayonnaise sandwiches we stepped out in the warm sunlight. We strolled down empty streets, crossing colorful walls, following our map towards the palace. We passed by a statute of err 3 ladies, I posed one for the camera too. We walked through closed shops with brilliantly decorated windows. Lovely lamps, clothes, decorative adorned the windows
Suddenly in the maze of streets, out of nowhere emerged the Amalienborg palace. A lovely example of Rococo architecture. A bright green dome, surrounded by four identical facades.
After spending some time with our mouths open and clicking some touristy pictures we proceeded towards the Strøget. This is the most happening shopping area and Europe's longest pedestrian street. I think you would get everything here from a pin to designer clothes. As we were approaching the H&M mall, we were suddenly surrounded by a group of ISKCON followers. They dressed in their traditional garb singing hare krishna which sure was music to the ears. These people had travelled from our India to sing and dance and praise the lord. There was a lovely girl named Mayapur Chandrika in the group. She shared her story from a village of India. It was interesting.
H&M mall was very interesting because on display was a pair of trousers for about 30 euros, the exact ones that I was wearing, bought from a Delhi flea market for about 2 euros.
We bought some Chinese takeaway of noodles, shrimps and chicken for our onward journey and started towards the hostel. We were now quite far from the hostel and had to take a bus back. As luck would have it, we had changed all the danish kroner in the morning for euros and had few left as mementos. A bus came and the driver, a lady (imagine!) did not have change for euros. We made the most silliest and upset faces and showed us all our change (including few Indian rupees), seeing that she just let us travel like that. God bless her.
We reached our hostel, picked our luggage and moved towards the station. The train as scheduled left at 1pm and few minutes exact. On route we entertained ourselves with tea and the Chinese takeaway. This was a long journey as we would reach Oslo only about 9 pm.
The sun had still not set in Oslo when we reached. As we were exiting the station and approaching the information booth (our lifeline) for directions to the Anker hostel, G started feeling sick. I quickly managed a sickness bag and gave it to G. As G sat at a corner of the station, I went and changed euros into swedish kroner and figure out the directions to the hostel.
By the time I came back G was a little better and we walked with our backpacks towards the hostel. We checked in this large warm & cozy room with wooden bunk beds and really comfortable bedding, with an attached washroom. G blamed the pedestrian food, had some medicine, lost and found some jewelery and we called it a night.
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