“Scandinavia it is,” I said to my fiancé after giving her a choice of Austria Ljubljana Zagreb and Belgrade…or Scandinavia. Since the former itinerary had a lot of time on buses her thinking was that she would like to keep me company on the buses rather than the shorter train rides in Scandinavia.

This will be my 19th country in Europe. I almost don’t want to brag about it anymore to the locals as they would’ve asked why did you visit your way first? But to each his own.

This was unusual in that only had one layover or my going and coming back itinerary. Normally I have two layovers which increases my travel time dramatically. And by default it makes me get in late at night to where almost immediately go to bed after traveling.

my flight to Newark was uneventful except for the fact that they used a larger than normal jet. It’s not all that unusual for me to see a very thin playing with two seats on one side of the aisle and one seat on the other side of aisle. I made the best use of my time by clearing out my iPod form old podcasts.

Our plane left late because a tow motor was malfunctioning and could not to the plane away from the gate. We arrived about 20 minutes late. I’m just glad that my layover was four hours long and so it did not bother me much.

I ate at Wendy’s at Newark airport simply because it was really the only recognizable restaurant in that section of the terminal.

I arrived in and departed out of the same terminal. And yet I still had to exit security from one side of the terminal and go through security again on the other side of the terminal. This seems so inefficient on TSA’s part. Meanwhile as I was getting Alina had a crappy airport security person trying to usher me around to the right lines. Just as I suspected that New York attitude showed through.

I had a seat in 28D which meant there were two people beside me. This made it really difficult to use the restroom frequently. I felt bad to have to ask the guy beside me to get up and move. He look like he wasn’t getting enough sleep. He had his head down as he was sleeping which seem very uncomfortable

as we deported the older lady beside me had left a plastic bag. I managed to catch her before she left but then she said it was just garbage. I felt a little bit embarrassed but head A slight justice has been done thought since I made the lady pick up her trash after herself.

There are actually two competing tree companies that move people from the Oslo airport to the main train station in central Oslo. The more frequent train is more expensive. I managed to ride in the NSB… The less expensive train.

Before leaving the train station in central Oslo I stopped by the tourist Office near the train station. I had purchased a Norway card before I left. He gives you free admissions to several museums. I figured if I went to five of the major museums and then the card would’ve already paid for itself

I found my hotel with the help of looking at Street view before I left. My room is only slightly bigger than my guest bathroom. It’s kind of an artsy type place with numbers written really Large in bold on the door.

After checking in I decided to head out and try and find the Norwegian resistant museum which chronicled Nazi invasion in the resistance movement through that period of time of occupation. I wandered around a bit too far and had to backtrack.

The museum itself had a lot of exhibits mostly in Norwegian but some of them were subtitled English. The museum chronicled the resistance movement through underground newspapers and sabotage. All the while Germans were killing in the porting Norwegian sister than their way.

It was at this particular time that I decided to get lunch before starting on another museum run. I knew there was a subway near my hotel which I decided to backtrack to get to.

Now unfortunately the Subway had a sign on their fountain drinks self-serve machines saying refills would cost a certain amount.

After lunch I decided to find the national art gallery to view the painting of the Scream. As expected there were dozens of people around it will need to take selfie’s with it. I was disappointed that it not have time to myself with the painting.

After breezing on through the national Gallery I decided to find another museum which was free with the Oslo card. This particular what is the reptile museum. It had two floors and I had seen most all the animals they had in there before. But I got to thinking that maybe Norwegians might not even have an opportunity to see a snake.

After the reptile museum I decided to head over and go to the City Hall to look at the unusual Murals. The murals look like something out of the Soviet era Cold War.

After City Hall I decided to go to the ski Museum. It was only a 30 minute subway ride away. Also it happened to be a 15 minute walk uphill after you depart at the metro station. While at the museum I saw a machine that would let someone experience what it feels like to ski at 100 km/h. Also there was a zip line at the top of the ski job.

In the skiing museum it talked about how the support of skiing had been going on for quite some time even in the middle ages. The native population to Norway you skiing to help hunt.

At the top of the ski jump it gave a great view of the city. With my flip the camera I like to do special videos were explain where I’m at and my thoughts on it. However with the Norwegians speaking English so well I was a little bit self-conscious about making videos. But I did do it very quietly.

After the ski museum I decided to go to Oslo’s famous park which has a lot of naked statues in it. The statues depict different stages of life from childhood through adulthood.

For supper I had Pepe’s pizza which seemed good at the time but it was served with much less sauce than what I’m used to making it mostly just cheese and bread.

Tomorrow I plan on visiting several museums before getting on my train to Gothenburg