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

[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.