I can has holiday (but not yet)

[nineveh_uk]

It is, however, in only 6 and a half-weeks time, which is terrifyingly close for the end of term and last week of March. I had better get to the gym.* It is skiing, Norway, and I shall be breaking exciting new ground in seeing the E6 road from the train, rather than the railway line from the E6, because I am getting myself to the hotel independently rather than having someone else do all the organising. This feels a lot more adventurous when it is 300km in Norway in winter than continental Europe in the summer even though it isn't in actual fact, despite the fact that I've been to the hotel itself before. I am even being sufficiently grown up that I am paying an extra £25 for the week to have a room with an Amazing View. With a view like this, it seems money worth spending.

(The picture is on LJ again. I must look up how to put them on DW.)

Possibly I should put it on my work computer desktop as an incentive to survive the term.

*I won't get to the gym.

Comments

[white_hart]

I think £25 is a small price to pay for an Amazing View.

"Only" six and a half weeks still feels rather like an eternity some days.

[nineveh_uk]

It is a 'Schrödinger's only', both terrifyingly close and terrifyingly far away.

The view is really astonishing, the photo only takes in half what you can see from the window. And of course it is visible from the lounge and the dining room, but it will be absolutely lovely to have when getting up, collapsing after a day out etc.

[sir_guinglain]

One day, I shall have a holiday. (Yes, the view is money well-spent.)

[nineveh_uk]

It is holidays that keep me sane...

[sir_guinglain]

I'd love to, I've just not been able to afford it in years...

[nineveh_uk]

I think that there's a probably a rule whereby living in Oxford/shire means one can own a home or go on holiday, but not both.

[sir_guinglain]

Unless one is terribly wealthy..! Or not in a single-income household.

[white_hart]

Um, I'm not terribly wealthy! And we are mostly a single-income household. We did buy our house ten years ago, though.

[el-staplador.livejournal.com]

I'd pay £25 for that view.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It felt like it would be money well spent. Especially as the other side is an extremely boring car park + field.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Is all that green indicative of a shortage of snow or just a lot of trees? We've had a very snowless year here (yet again - I'm not sure how the skiing industry is going to survive if the pattern continues).

I'm sure having a Norse adventure to look forward to will make the 6.5 weeks fly past, and train journeys are far more enjoyable than coaches. I'm jealous!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

The green is a lot of trees - March, so the snow had melted off them with a couple of sunny days. The skiing industry in the Alps seems to be having a very tough time this year, rather too many strips of artificial white across brown fields. I know these things are a bit cyclical, but it must be worrying people. Scandinavia had a late start, but there is now plenty of the white stuff about.

Compared to the usual Norwegian 3 - 4 hours in a coach, the train promises to be idyllic. Though as unlike the coach it won't wait for me if the plane is late, I chose to travel on the day when there is a later one in case I miss it...

[ylla.livejournal.com]

How far north are you going? I went overnight by train from Oslo to Trondheim years ago, never quite asleep and never quite awake, so all I really learnt was that there is a *lot* of Mjøsa, and then still a lot of everywhere else. It could be interesting to do while awake!

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

There is indeed a lot of Mjøsa, and I shall see it all as I'm getting the train as far as Vinstra (and then a taxi - reasonably priced! - to the hotel). My experience of the road is that it is dull until a bit up Mjøsa, with a view mostly of brown snow on the verges, but then gets a lot more dramatic. I like looking at what people are doing on the ice. One day I must go that way in summer.

I went by coach overnight from Oslo to Trondheim a long time ago. It was a really long way, but very pretty when we reached the daylight part. I remember having breakfast outside on top of a frosty Dovrefjell as the coach was transformed from the sleeping to sitting arrangement.

[helenajust.livejournal.com]

This looks like great fun! I tend to think of skiing in Norway as being on the flat, rather than downhill. Is that right?

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

There are some smaller downhill results, but I'm going to be doing the cross-country kind. This does involve some downs - and ups! - but generally in high fell sort of terrain, rather than spiky mountains (icon not withstanding). I like it because you get out into the country and it is quiet and beautiful, rather than being where other people are.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Hurray for forthcoming holidays! :-)

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

It is very cheering to think of.