Busy, busy, busy

The worst thing about taking a holiday in my job is that when you get back you have a lot of catching up to do. I have been incredibly busy this week that I have been unable to find time to keep you all (you all, ha ha I mean both of you!!) updated. Despite my work comittemnts we have manged to move from Sweden into Norway. In fact we are now at our third stop in Norway. We started at Halden which was just inside Norway. We had found a free site with only six spaces and decided, without much real optimism, to see if there were any spaces. Prices are generally pretty high for motorhome sites here. According to the good old sat nav we were about 300m away from the site when we passed a motorhome heading the other way. Sheila remarked that that guy has just vacated a space for us. What do you know when we drove round the corner there was one empty space. A welcome bit of good luck.

We were blessed with lovely weather for the three night stay so that meant that we were able to keep the big battery pack charged up via our solar panels and wanted for nothing. As with many of the sites up here it was right by a big canal but it did not have a great view. There was also the fact that there is something caled the Halden Cruise but it is not on the water. There are seemingly hundreds of huge American cars and the owners cruise round a circuit all evening and into the early hours. Many of them are fitted with amplifiers that make the music so loud that it is deafening when they pass and it actually does not seem to bother anyone that it is 2am!!!

After Halden we headed north to another site at Moss which was a convenient place to stop on route to Oslo. Another waterside stop but this time on the side of a Norwegian Fjord. There were lots of people fishing on the quayside so I spoke to one of them (a Ukranian who now lives there) and he told me it was free to fish in salt water but not in the freshwater lakes. I had some old fishing stuff in the van so managed to grab an hour. I did not have the right equipment because I could see what they were using. They were catching mackerel and needlefish. OK here is the fishy tale. I had no luck but I did see a huge needlefish following my lure as I reeled it in. It was really, really huge. Unfortunately it turned away. It was a bit of excitement and made my day. I nearly got a bite. For a "has been" fisherman, that's enough. 

Today we are intending visiting Oslo but sites around the city are few and those that are there are very expensive. I spotted an opportunity to take a ferry into Oslo from Nesoddtangen, a small town on a peninsula opposite the city and we discovered that it was free and permitted to park overnight in the ferry terminal carpark. So we had a plan. We have to pay (25 euro) for day parking for the trip but we have our ferry tickets and we are off now to see what Oslo has to offer.


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