Today (Friday) we took a fjord boat tour. The boat picked us up in Arlandsvangen at 9:15 a.m., went to Gudvangen, and returned to Arlandsvangen by 1:10 p.m. The tour itself was very nice and scenic, but it the weather wasn't the best. It went from light drizzle to light rain to windy rain the entire trip. On the positive side of that, there were some really interesting small cloud formations alongside the walls of the fjord. They sort of added to the immense scale of it all.
Like I said earlier, this is the most touristy area we've been in. Our boat tour reaffirmed that as there were loads of Chinese, Italians, and a few Germans. We talked with one younger German couple a bit throughout the day as we the only ones who got on and off at Arlandsvangen. They were from Munich. We shared driving recommendations as they were driving from Oslo heading north, and we were doing the opposite.
After the boat tour we drove to Oslo. We didn't drive any further distance or for any longer time than any other day of driving, but as we started in the afternoon, it seemed like it took forever. During the first hour or so we went through around 10 tunnels. Then we followed some dammed up lakes and rivers. When we got closer to Oslo E16 was closed and the detour was long and slow. At no point did we go over 80 km/h, because of the windy-ness of the roads, so all in all it took about 5.5 hours.
Oslo is a manageable larger city and it will be easy to get around by just walking. We think there are around 500,000 people here, so smaller than the Twin Cities.
Also...since I'm really writing this on Saturday morning...we both had a really good night of sleep. To bed by 11 p.m. and up at 9 a.m. Yea, Oslo!
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