My new friend Liz took me to her favourite hangout “Unholy” in Oslo. Good time had by all.
They said winter was over …
The locals told me winter was over and there would be no more snow. Then I awoke to see this outside my bedroom winter … (this happened quite a few weeks ago, just took me a while to post it)
Frogner stadion
Skating trip to Frogner stadion in Oslo. The ice surface was super smooth, the temperatures were high and there was more ice than you could possibly imagine (for a rink). A complete lack of fitness and having not skated properly in around nine months left me pretty much dead at the end of my skating […]
Trip to Hoffmans dam
Whilst staying in Naseby for a hockey tournament, Dave Patchett, myself and Chris Laing walked up in the snow to Hoffman’s dam. The dam was frozen, but not enough to skate on.
Northern Lights
Harriet Geoghegan and I headed north to the city of Tromsø in northern Norway. Our goal was to see the northern lights, and we duly did At first this seemed unlikely as Tromsø was shrouded in cloud, but our friendly northern lights tour guide drove us most of the way to Finland in an attempt […]
Frozen waterfall
Oslo got darned cold for a while. A good demonstration of how chilly it got is this waterfall which was almost totally frozen over.