Mountains, love boats and smack dens

Just returned from a week in Norway before I start uni.......it was awesome, if not a little weird! Four days were spent in the mountains hiking in the Jonterhium National Park. Such a beautiful area! Mountains (real ones not like Australias) with glaciers, lakes and rivers....absolutely everywhere! And although during the days hike you feel like it is very remote, at the end of each day there are lodges with heaters and showers. A good thing considering that it is freezing, even though it is just the end of summer. Although the hikes were quite long days we managed to find time to stop constantly to pick the blueberries growing wild absolutely everywhere in the mountains, and even swim in a glacier river! Shell and I have never screamed so loud. It was cold...very cold, and the swim must have lasted a good 2 seconds!

After our hike we returned to Oslo. We had a very bizare time in Oslo. We stayed in a bed and breakfast that turned out to be in a boat docked on the wharf. It was quite an adventure...the whole boat was booked out for a "Love Boat" festival. Whatever thats supposed to be!!!! It was full of ageing hippies doing weird weird performances late into the night. Meanwhile just outside our loveboat was Oslos biggest smack den!!!!! Everytime we left the boat there were people shooting up, or an ambulance taking away an overdose and even people trying to sell shell some undisclosed white powder from his pocket. Very sad and very unexpected in Oslo, what is supposed to be the worlds most expensive city!