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Day One - Friday 15th October 2004

London and Oslo

A few dramas with the flight
The Hostel in Oslo
Settled in - then went out at 12.45am!!!

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Left work at 2.00pm with Matt.
He works in the post room at work so we went together.

Karen and Yasmin were meeting us at the airport as they live together as were Cassie and Michelle who were coming on the bus.

There had been train dramas all day but we had no problems.
We got to the airport and checked in and went to the pub.
We had a drink there and then we went through security and went to the pub (another?)
"Tim the Tourman" was there and we sat with him and had some food.
Karen and Yaz arrived.
I messaged Cassie and Michelle to let them know where we were but they were still on the bus!
I couldn’t believe it and they actually ended up missing the flight!
They talked to Tim and he said that another two had missed the plane too so the girls ended up staying overnight at the airport with them and took the first flight out in the morning.

The Tour Group

---Tanya and some of the group---

There was 22 of us on the trip in total.

We landed and had to get the bus into Oslo.
The bus was completely overloaded and the driver ended up letting everyone who had to stand up on for free.
As luck would have it…there was a spare seat so I got to sit down without paying for the 100 minute journey.
Everyone ended up sitting in the aisles and a few even went to sleep.

Oslo - Norway

Room mates - Matt Kaz Yaz Tanya

We got to the hostel which was really nice.
Me, Kaz, Yaz and Matt shared a room.
There was two spare beds which were meant to be for the girls but they were still in London!

Tim said for us to go and settle in and then meet him back to head out at 12.45am!
Way past 'pumpkin hour' for me but I made it.
We went for a wander and ended up in two different bars and back at the hostel in bed by 3.00am - we had to be up by 9.30am.