1st day: Travelling to London.

That was easy! 9:45 I went out the door in Oslo, less than ten hours later at a little past 18 local time, I was sitting in Jim's couch with a nice cup of tea.

Prices made no sense though. 20Kr/£1.66 for 15 minutes on the bus to the centre of Oslo, 150Kr/£12.50 for 110 minutes to the airport, 307Kr/£25 (!) for 90 minutes of air travel, but then 260Kr/£21.50 (!!) for the 90 minutes with bus from Stansted to Heathrow. This makes absolutely no sense to me, not that I'm complaining. 750kr/£62 from door to door is fantastic.

Most of the credit for that goes to Ryanair of course, that price must be below actual costs, though with quite a few seats empty taking me probably made financial sense. Cheeky company though, when we taxed to the terminal at Stansted I could read this in big print on a neighbour plane: "Bye, bye Latehansa!" :-D

So last night was spent getting settled, drinking lots of cups of really good tea (it's going to be hell to go back to yellow Lipton again) and having my first "Pie and Mash" in "The Popes Grotto".

Best of all, the resident cat approves of having me here, marking me with lots and lots of hair. This is going to be fun!